Dartmouth is super busy – great news for all of our businesses and traders and we welcome all visitors to our beautiful town.
Whilst we were looking forward to being able to push a big green light tomorrow, we totally understand the Government’s need for caution, the final lifting of restrictions needs to be irreversible, so another month delay, whilst frustrating, seems sensible.
We are very much looking forward to some ‘normality, and the return of the Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta will be very much a part of that for our town and community. Your regatta committee has been beavering away behind ‘zoom’ to make this happen!
You will see our much-loved Swimming Gala, you will see the best family competition in the world: Spot the Oddity, you will be able to take part in rowing and sailing competitions, you will be able to enter the Regatta Crabbing competition, and indeed there will be so much for you and your loved ones to do and see.
If you haven’t registered yet for the Kon-Tiki Raft race, you better hurry to our website to do so! It will happen on Saturday 21st August at the very start of the Regatta week. On this day too we will host our Family Funday including the now-famous Regatta Dog Show, and our Silent (did you hear it in 2019?) Disco! There may even be a child-friendly surf simulator!
The Coronation Park team is super excited to announce there will be 3 (not 2) evenings to buy tickets for in the Coronation Park Arena. We will include our Sundowner on Wednesday 25th August with I Love Amp the Blu Funk Allstars and James Sax with Billy Baker. On Thursday the 26th of August a new event is born: the School Disco – family-friendly – starting at 2pm, you will not fail to enjoy our ABBA tribute band ‘Take a Chance on Me’ along with many DJ sets for everyone to enjoy.
Proms in the Park is back, with a slightly different format, on Friday the 27th, and will have a movie theme, narrated by John Suchet. We are incredibly sad to report the lovely Sid Davies, who was the conductor of the BRNC Volunteer Band, and the nicest person to know, passed away last month, after a hard-fought battle with MND. He will be very dearly missed, at what is arguably our highlight event of the week. We will be raising a glass to his memory on the night, and hope everyone attending will do so. Fireworks from BRNC will finish the night off. Tickets for all Coronation Park Arena events will be on sale very soon at the Flavel Arts Centre in Dartmouth, in person or online at www.theflavel.org.uk
There is much more to share, but nothing is of more importance to us than the safety of all who attend our town’s Regatta. So we will be releasing information thick and fast after the governments July announcements for large events. Sign up for our newsletter, via our new website, to be kept up to date with all the latest news here. You can also be a part of it – why not contact us to join our merry volunteer team?
We will continue to work closely, as ever with Dartmouth Town Council to put on a safe, successful and sustainable 176th Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta in 2021, and indeed DTC will return as Major Sponsors of the Regatta alongside Dart Marina Hotel & Spa, Carter Sullivan, Darby & Darby Solicitors, Ribeye, Goulden & Sons and Premier Marinas Noss on Dart. We are also delighted to say the Salcombe Gin return together with Baker Estates as Platinum sponsors this year. We are incredibly grateful to all our sponsors without whom we would not be able to stage the event. Their generosity equals your enjoyment. So it’s a huge shout out to all of them.
We hope to see lots of lovely faces in the beautiful port of Dartmouth and Kingswear at the end of August and we look forward to keeping you up to date via our website. Parking on Coronation Park is now live for booking here
Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta Committee – June 2021
