THIS year’s Tall Ships Festival took me back down memory lane as I reflected on the previous regattas while enjoying the latest one.
I managed to dig out a couple of old photographs from old Tall Ships Regattas to give a bit of a comparison of past and present.
Here are a selection from the 1966, 2008 and 2014 editions of the event.
1966
2008
Funchal at the start line, 2014
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