Well we've had a busy weekend at Whitestrand which was the hub for a lot of the Salcombe Festival activity - music on stage and lots of boat action on the water. The sun has been out all weekend (until 5.30pm this evening when rain started pouring just as the last performers, the brass band, had finished performing!).
Chris was on the Festival Committee this year, in charge of organising a lot of the 'on the water' activities. Bang and Go Back Race was a great success yesterday with 21 classic diesel/Brit/Stuart Turner engine launches all taking part. Many boats were decorated with bunting, some crew dressed up (one crew came as Darth Vadar and friends) and everyone had a lot of fun.
Following Bang and Go Back, we had rowing races and also sculling races - Tim Strete was a star sculler! And rowers of all ages turned up to take part. Hopefully next year we'll build on our numbers and have more heats so if you own a lovely rowing boat that doesn't get used enough, come along next year and get involved!!!
Also, Pegasus (above) looked fab on the estuary and led the sail past on Sunday with some of the gorgeous steam boats - we are so grateful to everyone for all their efforts and hope to see them and possibly more classic boats back next year in Salcombe.
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