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APRIL 2008
Greencastle Regatta website to go live in May
A new website, which, is to be launched in May dedicated to the Greencastle
Regatta, will be used to promote forthcoming regattas as well as giving
people from the area now living abroad the chance to share in the
event.
The Greencastle Regatta committee recently launched a campaign
urging local people to bring regatta memorabilia to the Inishowen
Maritime Museum. So far only a few people have brought in old photos
and the like. Gemma Havlin, manager of the Inishowen Maritime Museum
said, "We would take stuff from Stroove and Moville Regattas
as well as Greencastle. Maybe you have old photos or perpetual cups.
The more we can found out about the history of the local regattas
the better. You don't have to worry about losing your pictures,
we'll scan them in and give the original back to you.
The regatta committee are researching the history of the event,
which, it is believed, first took place 1740, the year after Black
Sunday when the majority of the Inishowen fishing fleet was lost
in a storm.
The regatta committee is trying to find out more about the origins
of the long running Greencastle Sea festival which they will also
post online. "Black Saturday happened in 1739 and the year
after that there was a regatta to help benefit the families of those
fishermen lost in the tragedy. That could make the Greencastle regatta
the oldest in Europe. At the minute we have records of regattas
going back to the 1890s. We hope to put video footage on the website.
We already have some film of old regattas that we want to put on
the site." Said Gemma.
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