There is a Drascombe rally on the 6th-8th July 2012 at Teifi Boat Club in Cardigan, with a number of Swallow Boats entered.
The Brest maritime festival is a gathering of traditional boats and ships from around the globe which takes place every four years in Brest, Brittany.
Maritime festival in Brittany, France.
Swallow Boats rally at Rutland Water. Note that engines are not permitted at Rutland Water but you can sleep on boats moored at the pontoons. See forum topic for full details:
http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,664.0.html
The following contact details can be used to find out more about sailing on Rutland Water in general:
Tel: 01780 460154
Email: rutlandwatersports@anglianwater.co.uk
Website: http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure/what-to-do/watersports/
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.
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.
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
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
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
Swallow Boats rally on Ullswater. See following forum topic for details:
http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,980.msg6336.html#msg6336
Details can be found on the following forum post:
http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,1057.msg7122.html#msg7122
Mon 29 June to Fri 3 July 2015 at Mylor Yacht Harbour, Falmouth. See following forum post for full details:
http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,1067.msg7237.html#msg7237
SwallowBoats rally at Weymouth, Dorset. Based out of Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy and Portland Marina. Proposed format is as follows but this is subject to numbers and conditions:
Friday 17th: Launch boats, sailing Portland Harbour / Weymouth Bay.
Saturday 18th: Sailing in Weymouth Bay or east along cost. Dinner in evening at local restaurant.
Sunday 19th: Sailing in Portland Harbour / Weymouth Bay. Possibly a race if sufficient interest. Recover boats.
Full discussion and details on following forum topic:
http://www.swallowyachtsassociation.org/smf/index.php/topic,1071.msg7324.html#msg7324