TALL SHIPS 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 6:00pm - Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 9:00pm
The event site at James Watt Dock and the Great Harbour presents a number of challenges, as well as opportunities. The challenges include transforming a working dock and derelict industrial land into an event arena with café bars, entertainment stages and crew facilities within the Victorian sugar shed which has lain unused for several decades. The regeneration of the docks is a flagship project in excess of £100 million for the urban regeneration company Riverside Inverclyde along with Clydeport, the port authority.
The Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race of 1999
Saturday, July 31, 1999
Glorious weather and a party atmosphere brought more than 600,000 visitors to the four-day Tall Ships festival in Scotland.
This photo was taken from the Waverly paddlesteamer. Andrew
my son and I took a trip out to see the Tall ships arrrive on the
firth of Clyde.
On Sunday - the last full day of the extravaganza - highlights included a coastguard exercise, a flypast by the Red Arrows and a firework display at night.
The event attracted around 120,000 visitors on Saturday, which included a march-past of all 3,000 members of the ships' crews.
The party atmosphere continued into the evening with an official captain's dinner and a rock concert.
An Italian navy ship won the first leg of the race from St Malo in France to the port of Greenock.
Second place went to the British ship Duet, owned by the English East Coast Sailing School and manned by a crew of 10.
Another British entry, The Greater Manchester Challenge, was placed fifth, with two Norwegian ships, Christian Radich and Statsraad Lemhkul, taking third and fourth place.
The event - organised by the International Sail Training Association - is expected to generate millions of pounds for the Inverclyde economy.
From Lerwick, the vessels headed to the finish at Aalborg in Denmark on 18 August.