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Winners with tall tales to tell Five youngsters from the South West are preparing for the adventure of a lifetime after winning places aboard a tall ship sailing to Portugal.
This week's Falmouth Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta is expected to be the South West's biggest spectator event of the summer with 50,000 viewing the Parade of Sail on Saturday. Ashlee is the youngest winner and was on holiday in Spain when she heard she had won her place from her grandmother back in Cornwall. Just days after returning from Portugal, Sam White will be starting the Royal Marine recruitment training course at Lympstone in a bid to gain the famed green beret. The winners correctly answered that the South West has the best bathing water quality in the European Union in 2006 thanks to South West Water's £2 billion Clean Sweep programme. South West Water Chief Executive Chris Loughlin said: "I'd like to congratulate all the winners and wish them the best of luck on their journey. "As a sponsor of the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta in Falmouth, we thought offering youngsters a berth on board a tall ship was the perfect way of celebrating the positive impact Clean Sweep has had on the quality of our bathing water around the region. All five winners will be sail cadets on the Pelican as she sails to Ilhavo in Portugal on the next leg of the Tall Ships race following the Parade of Sail this Saturday. Published: 8 September 2008 Notes to editors There will be a chance to interview and photograph the winners on board the TS Pelican at Queen's Wharf in Falmouth this Friday at 3pm. |
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