Event Dates
June TBC 2016
The Swan 51 – “Northern Child” will be making it’s way to Ireland for the biennial RORC Round Ireland Race next year.
Horta
Horta is a city in the western part of the Archipelago of the Azores, encompassing the island of Faial.
The city contains the Horta Regional Museum which has a permanent exhibit, Exhibition of Capelinhos Volcano, that details in photographs the recent (1957) volcanic eruption in the Azores. The museum also contains a large collection of scale models of buildings, ships, and people carved from fig kernels produced by Euclides Rosa, who was known as the Mestre do “Miolo de Figueira” (English: Master of Fig Tree Pith) he was acclaimed for his complex and elaborate sculptures of pith/wood.
The marina is a primary stop for yachts crossing the Atlantic, and its walls, and walkways are covered in paintings created by visitors who noted the names of their vessels, crews, and the years they visited. Peter’s Cafe Sport, which is located across from the marina and houses the island’s scrimshaw museum, a collection artifacts carved from whale tooth and jawbone, is a point of reference for trans-Atlantic yachtsmen and sailors.
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Dublin
The capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Ireland’s east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey.
Founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Ireland’s principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Act of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.
It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
Similar to much of the rest of northwestern Europe, Dublin experiences a maritime climate with cool summers, mild winters, and a lack of temperature extremes.
