This year’s Whitehaven Festival was the biggest and best ever – according to The Whitehaven News. Highlights included three major concerts – Katharine Jenkins, Status Quo and N-Dubz, all of whom packed out the harbour side arena.
Celebrity chefs Jean Christophe Novelli and Gino d’Acampo entertained the crowds with a series of mouth-watering cooking demonstrations. There were tall ships, army vehicles, a fantastic Made in Cumbria market, showcasing locally made products.
The marina was the busiest it’s ever been, with 75 visitor boats adding to the annual berth holders already moored at Whitehaven for the Festival Weekend. The marina staff all worked long hours to ensure all boats were safely moored in their berth and were on hand throughout to answer any customer queries. The harbour was awash with colour, as most of the boats had ‘dressed overall’ to take part in the best-dressed boat competition.
On Sunday much of the entertainment was in the skies, including displays and fly-pasts by a Dakota, Vulcan, Sea Hawk and Mustang, plus a team of skydivers who leaped out of a plane and spectacularly (and safely!) parachuted into the water from several thousand feet. The world famous Red Arrows brought the event to a close on Sunday with a breath taking aerobatic display.
The sun shone throughout the weekend and organisers estimate several hundreds of thousand people enjoyed the Festival activities. Plans are already well under way for next year’s event.
The marina is always fully booked for Festival weekend well in advance, so if you wish to be here next year, then watch out for a press announcement about dates for 2011.














