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19th June 2013

Wexford the Model 'Boat' County

#MaritimeFeatival - Irelands largest Model-Boat Exhibition will be held during the 2nd John Barry Maritime Festival in Wexford.

The Model Boat Exhibition takes place on the weekend of 22-23 June (11am-5pm) as part of the four-day festival which starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday.

Exhibiting an extensive range of model displays will be from the Rosslare Maritime Museum, the Boat Builders Project, the Marine Institute's Touch Tank, Irish Navy aswell as maritime stalls selling their wares.

As previously reported on Afloat.ie the John Barry and JFK Photographic Exhibition is to held in the Talbot Hotel as part of the festival's new Maritime & Heritage Cultural Walking Trail.

For details of the festival full programme visit: www.jbmf.ie/en/festival/festival-programme-2013

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago