Sail Caledonia is the annual Scottish ‘Raid’ or expedition for boats powered by sail and oars which takes place in the Highlands of Scotland in early summer.

Using the three major lochs of the Great Glen and the 200 year old Caledonian Canal, the fleet of up to 25 boats races, explores and ceilidh their way up the Glen from Fort William through Fort Augustus and Loch Ness before finishing the journey in the Highlands’ capital, Inverness.

See the Sail Caledonia web site for more details.

Discuss in the Swallow Boats forum.

SwallowBoats Rally on Lake Bala, North Wales. See forum for full details:

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php?topic=690.msg4234#msg4234

Dayboat Rally on the Teifi Estuary and adjacent coastline to take place on the 29th and 30th of June. If anyone would like to join in you would be most welcome – please email Gareth Rowlands (hp.rowlands@virgin.net) and he will send full details and a registration form. Usual informal format will be followed: cruise in company on Saturday and an informal raid type race on Sunday with good food and bar provided by the Teifi Boating Club.

Raid Finland, Turku Archipelago, Åland Islands.

http://raidfinland.org/

See the raid’s web site for full details:

http://www.raidengland.org/?page_id=445

Click here for a map showing the raid’s route.

Southampton boat show web site.

Dorestad Raid, Netherlands.

http://www.natuurlijkvaren.nl/

http://www.natuurlijkvaren.nl/andere-evenementen-2013/reeuwijk-raid-5-en-6-oktober-2013/

Repeating 2013′ successful season kick-off at Rutland Water, Peter Cockerton and Andy Dingle are organising this again for 2012.

Peter and Andy are organising permission to hold the event at Whitwell, car and trailer parking, access to toilets and showers, etc. As per last year overnight stops on your boats will not be a problem. Peter will arrange rooms at a local pub for those requesting accommodation and we’ll meet for dinner and drinks in the same pub on the Saturday evening.

Meet at:

Rutland Watersports,
off Bull Brigg Lane,
Whitwell,
Oakham,
LE15 8BL.

More details and latest updates can be found on the forum topic:

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,850.0.html

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,755.0.html

Sail Caledonia is the annual Scottish ‘Raid’ or expedition for boats powered by sail and oars which takes place in the Highlands of Scotland in early summer.

Using the three major lochs of the Great Glen and the 200 year old Caledonian Canal, the fleet of up to 25 boats races, explores and ceilidh their way up the Glen from Fort William through Fort Augustus and Loch Ness before finishing the journey in the Highlands’ capital, Inverness.

See the Sail Caledonia web site for more details.

Seafair Haven is a maritime festival which takes place biennially, with advice from and partnership with the well established Semaine du Golfe festival in the Morbihan, Brittany.

The festival has been a great success in 2006, 2008 2010 and 2012 plans are now underway to organise a fifth Seafair Haven from 7th -14 June of June 2014 for traditional and classic vessels and long boat rowing to celebrate the magnificent Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire.

http://www.seafairhaven.org.uk/content.asp

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,758.0.html

South coast rally sailing on the Dorset coast from Weymouth. See the forum for full details

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,961.msg6120.html#msg6120

http://www.raidengland.org/

http://www.southamptonboatshow.com/

The Teifi Boating Club have kindly agreed to make their premises available to us for a rally on the weekend of the 13th and 14th of September 2014.  Format will be much the same as in previous years. A combination of coastal and estuary cruising – depending on weather conditions. Two meals in the boat club.

Gareth Rowlands will be sending out diary markers to skippers who have attended before. If you would like to be included in the circulation of details and haven’t been before, or have changed your email address, please let Gareth have your name / email address through this forum:

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,896.msg5492.html#msg5492

http://www.londonboatshow.com/2015/index.html

The biennial Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan festival of boats (and food, wine and lots of other good things!). See the following forum post and web site for more details:

http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,995.0.html

http://www.semainedugolfe.com/Home-1074-0-0-0.html

Sail Caledonia is the annual Scottish ‘Raid’ or expedition for boats powered by sail and oars which takes place in the Highlands of Scotland in early summer.

Using the three major lochs of the Great Glen and the 200 year old Caledonian Canal, the fleet of up to 25 boats races, explores and ceilidh their way up the Glen from Fort William through Fort Augustus and Loch Ness before finishing the journey in the Highlands’ capital, Inverness.

See the Sail Caledonia web site for more details.