Will this finally be the year of the festival? Will this summer see us brushing up on our shanties or checking those tides for the Chenal du Four? So many festivals and events have been postponed or cancelled over the past two years, it’s hard to keep track of whether it’s a Morbihan year or a Douarnenez year, or even what year it is in the first place. We’ve rounded up the festivals confirmed for the season so far, in the hope we will all be able to get together and celebrate our boats once again this year. At the very least, that happy prospect should spur us on when we’re under a hull scraping barnacles.
If you have an event you think we should be including here, let us know at cat@watercraft-magazine.com
Oh and the answer’s Douarnenez – and it’s 2022.
Photographs: Kathy Mansfield
12-14 March
Wooden Boat Festival Geelong
12-18 April
Escale à Sète
29 April-1 May
World Pilot Gig Championships, Isles of Scilly
26-29 May
Pasaia Itsas Festibala Maritime Festival
26-29 May
La Morue en Fête, Binic, France
27-29 May
Big Little Boat Festival, Edgewater MD
28-29 May
Brixham Heritage Regatta, Devon
28 May-4 June
Sail Caledonia, Great Glen, Scotland
4 June
Ocean to City Race – during Cork Harbour Festival, Ireland
1-5 June
The Pilot Cutter Review, St Mawes
17-19 June
Falmouth Classics and Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival
17-19 June
Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, Portsoy
18-25 June
Seafair Haven, Milford Haven, Wales
25-26 June
Route du Sable
29 June–3 July
Fécamp Grand’Escale
1-3 July
Sea Salts and Sail, Mousehole
2-3 July
Dutch Wooden Boat Festival, Den Helder
9-10 July
Vieilles Coques, Concarneau
14-17 July
Fêtes maritimes, Douarnenez
15-17 July
Thames Traditional Boat Festival
29-31 July
Abers 2022, L’Aber-Wrac’h
9-13 August
The English Raid, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex
12-14 August
Fêtes des Vieux Gréements, Paimpol
7-11 September
Dorestad Raid, Netherlands
9-11 September
Wooden Boat Festival, Port Townsend, WA, US
22-25 September
Galaxidi Islands Regatta
