{"id":6126,"date":"2013-08-12T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2013-08-12T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:07:53","slug":"ships-ahoy-coleraine-borough-council-host-the-portrush-regatta-17th-18th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/08\/ships-ahoy-coleraine-borough-council-host-the-portrush-regatta-17th-18th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships Ahoy! Coleraine Borough Council host the Portrush Regatta 17th-18th August."},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR a second successive year, Coleraine Borough Council is hosting the Portrush Regatta on Saturday 17th<\/sup> and Sunday 18th<\/sup> August.<\/h2>\n
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Ships ahoy! With Maisy Hassan from the Borough of Coleraine as she sets her sails ready for Coleraine Borough Council\u2019s Portrush Regatta 2013. All events will be held in Portrush running the two days of 17th and 18th August 2013. www.portrushregatta.com or www.northcoast.ni.com <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a successful launch last year, it is again being run in conjunction with Coleraine Yacht Club and Portrush Yacht Club with the aim of attracting sailing enthusiasts to the North Coast.\u00a0 Local families and visitors are encouraged to come along and join in the nautical-themed land based events. The highlight of the weekend will be the racing programme for cruisers and dinghies starting from Portrush Harbour on both days at 11am.\u00a0 Visitors will also be treated to a view of the 38 Ft Curragh Colmcille (the largest Curragh in the world) and the Causeway Coast Maritime Heritage Group plan to run a series of Curragh races over the weekend. The Kitty of Coleraine, one of the Borough\u2019s most popular heritage boats will be showcased over the two days at Portrush Harbour.<\/p>\n

Mayor of Coleraine, Councilor David Harding said, \u201cThis event is another great addition to the Borough\u2019s events programme. I would like to thank Malin Waters for their financial support and our partners for providing their expertise, ensuring that this event becomes a stable fixture in Council\u2019s annual events schedule. Everyone is welcome to Portrush to make full use of our wonderful coastline, either by lazing on the shoreline or getting out there to try any number of water based activities such as sailing, surfing, scuba diving, boat trips, sea angling etc.<\/p>\n

A full programme of events is planned for the family onshore to complement the activities on the water including the Island Dhu open water swim on Sunday 18th<\/sup>, commencing at 1.30pm – only the bravest may apply!\u00a0 Members of the public can now use the brand new Beach Volleyball court at East Strand, which has become a permanent fixture as part of the legacy following last week\u2019s World Police and Fire Games event. Some of the other activities available for everyone to enjoy, and free to all, will be a special visit by Paula McIntyre, the BBC Radio Ulster Resident Chef, who will be cooking up some seafood dishes at the Good Food NI kitchen during the weekend. There will also be a \u2018static mermaid\u2019, live music, \u2018Punch & Judy\u2019 shows, tales from the deep blue sea, basket weaving demonstrations, sand sculptures and a photographic exhibition with lots, lots more to enjoy. Special showings of Free Willy and Pirates in an adventure with scientists will also be available for viewing at regular times at the Playhouse cinema, Portrush.<\/p>\n

A full programme of events is available from www.portrushregatta.com<\/a> www.northcoastni.com<\/a> . For a maritime weekend full of nautical fun and frolics, everyone is invited to make their way to Portrush for another fun filled weekend. www.colerainebc.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR a second successive year, Coleraine Borough Council is hosting the Portrush Regatta on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th August. Following a successful launch last year, it is again being run in conjunction with Coleraine Yacht Club and Portrush Yacht Club with the aim of attracting sailing enthusiasts to the North Coast.\u00a0 Local families and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}