Welcome to this month’s Dart Habour bulletin
Rob Giles, Harbourmaster
VISITING SHIPS The improvements we are seeing in the economy are being seen in increased visits to Dart Harbour – both on the leisure side and larger vessels. In the last few weeks we have welcomed the Tall Ship Tenacious, run by the Jubilee Sailing Trust on two occasions.
The crew were made to feel very welcome by Dart Harbour and the townspeople and as such will be returning in September. Another vessel to visit Dartmouth
was HMS Ledbury, the oldest of the eight Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessels which was commissioned in June 1981 by its Sponsor Lady Elizabeth Berthan. On the leisure side, several yacht
rallies have visited Dartmouth including Albin Ballad, a one design class of 30ft yachts, which held their national championship from Dartmouth, hosted by the Royal Dart Yacht Club, the Teign Corinthian Yacht Club Rally and the Three Creeks Race, a sailing and running team event.
Other events taking place include the
Totnes and Bridgetown Rowing Regatta with rowing races from Totnes and the Medical Sailing Rally, with visiting yachts from across the South West. Try a Boat – this event has become a regular fixture in the Dartmouth calendar. The event is organised by the British Marine Federation South West region and supported by Dart Harbour Authority.
It was held on the Whitsun bank holiday weekend with more than 550 people taking to the water on a variety of vessels. The event is run to
encourage people to take up a water sport, demonstrating just some of the ways they can do so. “We have noticed a marked increase in visitors to Dartmouth and are keen to build on this,” said Dart Harbour Master Capt Rob Giles. “We are working hard to make all our visitors feel welcome and are expecting further leisure trade to continue. All the visits have contributed to the positive buzz in the port.”
CRUISE SHIPS Dartmouth is experiencing an upturn
in visits with two cruise vessels visiting within two weeks’ of each other. The first was Noble Calidonia’s MV Serenissima on May 30th, visiting from
board member Tricia Daniels for helping to put the polish on the visit by helping passengers feel unbelievably welcome. I’d also like to thank the Tourist Information Centre and the Mayor for helping to promote Dartmouth.” The visit of Serenissima was a result of the work of Capt Giles who engineered the visit through his marketing work earlier in the year and arranged for the cruise liner to make a diversion to Dartmouth.
the Isles of Scilly with 83 passengers on board and heading to Portsmouth. The second was Swan Hellenic’s MV Minerva on June 14, again visiting from the Isles of Scilly. This is the
Following on from the liners’ visit, Capt Giles has been invited to visit Noble Caledonia later this year to discuss a portfolio of visits to Dartmouth. Two further cruise visits are planned for August. The MS Europa owned and operated by the German company Hapag-Lloyd will visit on August 6 and MV Azamara Journey will visit on August 18.
DARTMOUTH ROYAL REGATTA 2014 Dart Harbour will be supporting
Dartmouth Royal Regatta next month, the UKs largest maritime event outside of the Solent.
first time MV Minerva has visited Dartmouth and the 305 passengers and crew were so delighted with the welcome they received they are already discussing a return visit. Cruise ship trade is increasing
worldwide and figures show visiting passengers spend an average of between £80 and £100 in each port they visit. Dart Harbour is working with the
town’s BID, Dart Harbour, Dartmouth Town Council, Tourist Information Centre and advisor Tricia Daniels met to discuss strategies to attract more ships to town and how to make those ships’ passengers feel welcome in Dartmouth. “We all have a common goal of attracting more cruise ships to Dartmouth and we are all determined to achieve that together,” said Capt Rob Giles. “I’d like to thank harbour
Dinghy and yacht racing will start on August 23rd and there will also be a full programme of rowing races taking place throughout the week. As usual, Dart Harbour will work with event organisers to minimise the costs for sponsors and competitors.
INFRASTRUCTURE The seasonal yacht club pontoon was installed in May marking the start of the summer season. In addition, Dart Harbour has continued its planned programme of infrastructure improvements with a new visitors’ deep water pontoon providing 110m of berthing at all states of the tide. The pontoon, part of our five-year infrastructure plan, was installed on June 6th at and is already receiving good feedback from users. Dart Harbour has further plans to continue to improve the infrastructure backlog using repair by replacement and in-house refurbishment.
WIFI Dart Harbour will soon have wifi
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