Sailing places still available

We have a handful of places for beginner and experienced sailors on next week’s Youth Sailing Week and if the weather stays like this it will be a brilliant week!

The Youth Sailing Week runs from 10am until 5pm on Monday 6th April to Friday 10th April!. We provide all the boats, wetsuits, buoyancy aids and kit for on the water, plus RYA logbooks and certificates for all students. The course fee is £259 per person, for an action packed week of sailing, kayaking, games and plenty of fun. The boats are scrubbed, rigged and ready to go, the commissioners have put all the flags back it in Port Erin, the sun is shining and it feels like summer!

For full details please visit 7thwave

If you would like to book a place on next week’s course please contact:
Jenni Quillin
Principal, 7th Wave
Strand Road
Port Erin
Isle of Man
IM9 6HF

Tel: 01624 836366
Visit 7thwave.com

Monday’s event update

Details have now been finalised for the first event of Queenie Festival 2009.

When: Monday 29 June 2009
Theme: Fishing into the past
Venue: Mount Tabor Hall , Port St Mary
Time: 6.00 pm

Brian Goldie is organising a photographic display in Mount Tabor Hall on the them of “ A Day in the Life of Port St Mary “ the Southern Photographic Club were commissioned in millennium year, 1979 to picture the village through a typical day – from the bread going in the oven at Faragher’s Bakery to the last man swaying out of the Albert!

The display will highlight the many changes to Port St Mary and also show important fishing was to the community. The display will remain open at Mount Tabor until the evening of Wednesday 31 July to allow the public time to view it at their leisure.

Our fisheries minister Mr Phil Gawne has very kindly organised some traditional music and dance and there will also be stalls selling food and refreshments plus some demonstrations of the skills used in the fishing industry in bygone years.

During the evening there will be a walking re enactment reflecting on the changing aspects of Manx fishing through the years, showing the importance of the Mackerel and Herring industry and the emergence of the Manx Queenie fishery following the closure of the Irish sea Herring grounds.

If anyone is interested in getting involved and helping out please contact dawn.maddrell@gov.im

Anyone wishing to take part in the walk should register on arrival and they will then be given a start time, the walk will take approximately 1 hour and the cost will be £1 for adults and free for children. Please be early to register for the walk as places will be limited.

The Albert pub will also be hosting a Manx language evening courtesy of Adrian Cain – no doubt accompanied by the odd local brew!

All in all this should be a great opener to the Isle of Man Queenie Festival and a way in which the village can play their part.