The Old Gaffers festival is a local festival for old Gaff-Rigged sailing boats. Its been running for as long as I can remember, and as well as the boats, there is also a french market, loads of art and craft stalls, classic cars, bouncy castles, etc. All in all a rather good weekend, thats before you even get to the beer tent with over 40 real ales, and Rob Da Bank and the Cuban Brothers playing. Top notch.

This actually happened the beginning of the month, but I’ve only just got around to processing the photos…

More info and all the tourist blurb can be found at the official site, yarmoutholdgaffersfestival

Today was the annual JP Morgan Round the Island Race, probably the biggest yacht race in the world with over 1,700 boats sailing the 50 mile course around the Island.

Never too old to take photos.

Yarmouth had its annual Old Gaffers Fesival this weekend, the weather was better than expected and  Yarmouth was packed with french food stalls, arts and crafts, people out drinking on the streets, watching the samba bands in the sun, and generally enjoying themselves.

Having painted a nice picture of the Old Gaffers atmosphere, heres a photo that isn’t very atmospheric…