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2nd August 2017

Avast, Me Hearties! Phoenix To Take Pride Of Place At Pirate-Themed Rush Harbour Festival This August Bank Holiday

#TallShips - Phoenix, the tall ship owned by Cork man Shane McCarthy of marine film services firm Square Sail Ventures, will be the centrepiece of the Rush Harbour Festival this coming August Bank Holiday weekend.

The 34m-tall, two-masted brig will sail into Rush on Friday afternoon (4 August) amid a hail of cannon fire that will mark the start of the maritime festival's parade at 4pm.

Throughout the weekend, Phoenix will be unmissable as the backdrop to the pirate-themed festivities in the North Co Dublin harbour.

And the tall ship will be available to view all weekend thanks to Performance Marine and the Fingal Adventure Centre.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was on board Phoenix during the recent SeaFest in Galway as he signalled the Government’s support for a new all-Ireland sail training ship.

Alongside the Atlantic Youth Trust’s longtime lobbying efforts, Square Sail is positioning Phoenix as “ideally suited for sail training duties” due to her transatlantic experience and appearances in various film and TV productions.

Phoenix’s crew recently called in to old friends at the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School as it berthed in Dun Laoghaire Harbour for maintenance work on its bottom timbers.

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About the Star Sailors League Gold Cup

In 2022, Sailing finally got its own World Cup, according to the promoters of the SSL (STAR SAILORS LEAGUE) Gold Cup.

Like football in 1930 and rugby in 1987, the SSL Gold Cup is designed to crown the best sailing nation of all! The World's Top 56 countries, selected on their SSL Nation ranking, will battle their way through to raise the coveted and only Sailing World Cup trophy.

The SSL is the global inshore sailing circuit launched by Olympic athletes in 2012, by sailors for sailors. Its main philosophy considers the athletes (not the boats) as the “Stars” and it aims to showcase the annual global sailing championship with its over 15’000 regattas; it determines and celebrates the world leaders in sailing promoting the inshore regattas to the global audience.

The three main components of the SSL Circuit are the SSL Ranking published every Tuesday, updating the position of over 100,000 leading athletes, thus highlighting the world’s top inshore sailors. The SSL Finals taking place every year around November-December, it’s the annual final of the SSL Circuit among the 20/25 best athletes of the ranking, to crown the champion of the season. And the SSL Gold Cup, the ‘ultimate’ championship of the circuit with 56 nations among World Sailing members, to crown the best sailing nation.

In a mechanical sport where the race for technology sometimes gets in the way of the race for glory, the SSL aims for equal competition where the talent of the sailors is at the forefront and the champions become heroes that inspire new generations of sailors.

The SSL is a World Sailing Special Event since 2017.