Spirit Of The Sea

Weymouth & Portland Maritime Festival

4th to 12th July 2009

• Weymouth 'Beach Live'Live music on Weymouth seafront
• Steamship Shieldhall Will be alongside in Weymouth Harbour for the whole of the Spirit of the Sea Festival

• Open Water Swimming Championships The 13th Championships of this very successful regional competition
• The Chesil Beach Centre Pebbles, Boats and the Sea Explore Chesil Bank, the Fleet and Portland Harbour above and below water
• Stories by the Sea Make your way to Weymouth Beach between 10am-4pm for story telling

• Gymnastics Display Join the Dorchester YMCA Gymnastics club Scorpios Display Team at the Spirit of the Sea

• Dorset Special Schools Beach Festival Dorset Special Schools are entering into this years SPIRIT OF THE SEA through a new and exciting beach festival being held on Weymouth Beach.
• Beach Volleyball Top local teams fine tune their skills in preparation for the countries biggest Beach Volleyball Championships

• Tag Rugby Tag Rugby on the Beach all ages welcome, come down, register and join in.

• Henri-Lloyd Weymouth Regatta Four days of competitive racing including long distance

• Weymouth Maritime Modelling Festival One of the country's leading model boat events
• Dorset Seafood Festival The Dorset Seafood Festival will celebrate the journey our seafood takes from sea to plate
• MarineEx Trade Show The Weymouth & Portland Marine Show
• The Universal Big Gig Nothe Gardens and the harbourside, with racing around Newtons Cove area

• Try a Sail Days We hope to see you either on Weymouth Beach or at the National Sailing Academy but please book your slot to avoid disappointment

• Art in the Park 'Art in the Park' is a new Royal manor workshops (RMW) annual summer event in conjunction with W&PBC as part of the Spirit of the Sea Festival
• W&P National Sailing Academy Open Day Tours of the 2012 Olympic sailing venue and a chance to have a go at sailing or windsurfing

• Island Voices Island Voices Community Choir and the Chesil Cove Children's Choir will be performing at Brakenbury infants school.
• Race to the Bill Triathalon The first classic distance triathlon from the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy

For more information visit the website http://www.spiritofthesea.org.uk

You may also be interested in:

Stair Hole
Lulworth Cove
Corfe Castle
Enid Blyton
Hardys Monument
Filming in Dorset
Portland Castle
Sandsfoot Castle
Abbotsbury Village
Carnivals and Regattas in Dorset
Firework Displays in Dorset
Clavell Folly Tower
William Barnes Poet who wrote and spoke Old Dorset Dialect
Portlands Lighthouses at Portland Bill

Please note: All of the information supplied by this guide was correct at the time of publishing, contact details are provided where possible throughout the guide, so please contact them before arranging your trip.