CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2016 53From Cowes to Brest and beyond
Every leap year is a Brest year. The quadrennial Breton festival of
boats and the sea features about 2,500 vessels and up to a million
spectators. Put that together with the biennial (also very big)
Douarnenez festival nearby, add a passage race between them, and
you have, by far, the biggest sailing festival in the world. Back at home
we have the ever-developing Cowes events, as well as more on the
East Coast and in the West Country than you can shake a gaff yard at;
and if that’s not enough, head to the Med, Scandinavia, continental
Europe, America or the antipodes. Wherever you may be this year, you
won’t be far from a cloud of sails on wooden masts.PANERAI GUIDO CANTINI / SEASEE.COM
CLAUDIA MYATTNIGEL PERT