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} Traditional Regatta What it is, where it is and why you should check it out! By Melanie Drury Are you going to the Maltese National Regatta? If you haven’t properly considered it, you should. Here’s one national event that is not only historic, but also guarantees an atmosphere with a great deal of excitement and local cheer. Traditional boat racing has been going on in Malta since the Middle Ages. While the details have changed considerably over the years, today the regatta races are held twice a year on the 31 st March and 8 th September. Both dates commemorate the end of foreign occupation or invasion: the British army and navy left Malta on 31 st March 1979, while the 8 th September marks the end of the Great Siege of 1565 as well as the departure of the French occupiers in 1800. The races are held in the Grand Harbour, with the fortifications of Valletta, the Three Cities and Fort St Angelo as a backdrop. Rowers from seven coastal towns compete in two categories – one for professionals, and one for amateurs – with each featuring five races of 1,040 metres each. Take a snack and a couple of beers – this is a five hour affair but with lots to keep you entertained, promise! Each race features a different rowing boat, traditionally the kajjik, frejgatina, dgħajsa tal-pass and dgħajsa tal-midalji, all converted Maltese working boats. Points are awarded to the first three placings and the club with he most points from the five races wins the respective category. Needless to say, there is a great ado about being the winners in this traditional Maltese sport. Traditionally, the participating clubs are the Birżebbuġa Regatta Club (Red-White-Blue), the Kalkara Regatta Club (Green), the Bormla Regatta Club (Light Blue), the Birgu Regatta Club (Red), the Senglea Regatta Club (Red-Yellow), the Marsa Regatta Club (Red-Blue) and the Marsamxett Regatta Club (Yellow) of Valletta. The competition is fierce and supporters scream encouragement from their viewing points (whether they can actually be heard or not is another matter, but the support is certainly there!) Join the large crowd of keen spectators on the water’s edge or on the bastions of Malta’s historic fortified cities. Don’t miss this colourful, lively and spectacular event full of local flavour! MS Credit: Drew Creative Studios THE COMPETITION IS FIERCE AND SUPPORTERS SCREAM ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THEIR VIEWING POINTS Melanie Drury was born and raised in Malta and has spent a large chunk of her life travelling solo around the world. Back on the island with a new outlook, she realised just how much wealth her little island home possesses. 38 } Issue 10
} London Boat Show On board Duran Duran’s icon Panerai’s Eilean docks in London By Lucia Ferigutti Image: Guido Cantini/Panerai Customers can now step on board sailing yacht Eilean to shop Panerai’s new Sailing Chronographs. Some might say that the sight of Duran Duran dressed in fluorescent suits prancing on the bow of a boat in their now iconic but outrageously kitsch music video 'Rio' was too great a distraction to pay attention to the vessel they were actually sailing on. But for any true boat lover, it is the beautiful yacht Eilean that is undoubtedly the star of the show. The 22-metre ketch boasts a storied past, first setting sail from the small village of Fairlie, Scotland in 1936, built for Scottish steel merchants the Fulton brothers at the famous William Fife & Son boatyard. In 1964 she was bought by Lord Shawcross, formerly the lead prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, and spent summers cruising around the Balearics before being sold ten years later, bought for use as a charter. The new Panerai Sailing Chronograph Gold Pam01020 is available to pre-order in London on board Eilean. Eilean heeling on in a gust, racing It was in Antigua in 1983 that she had her shining moment, when the British new wave band Duran Duran filmed their new music video aboard. While 'Rio' and its ode to eighties glamour and excess helped propel the band into the mainstream, Eilean was less fortunate. Shortly after filming, she collided with a ferry breaking her mizzenmast, and then sank on her mooring while waiting for repair. Some 20 years later, having been dragged up a creek and left to rot, she was discovered by Angelo Bonati, the chief executive of Panerai watches, who fell for the boat's classic Fife lines. He took her to a shipyard in Genoa, where she was restored according to her original 1936 specifications, found in the archives at the Scottish Maritime Museum. In a fitting end to the tale, the restored boat and the band members were reunited for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta in 2010. Where frontman Simon Le Bon, a keen sailor since the age of 11, took the helm. MS Creditline: Boat International www.mbrpublications.net } 39
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