A tall ship is set to visit Maryport next weekend as part of the town’s Taste of the Sea festival.
Depending on weather and tides, it is hoped La Malouine will be an added attraction at the two-day event at Maryport Harbour on August 9 and August 10.
The twin masted French Brigantine, registered in the Port of Dumfries, started life in Gdansk, Poland, and was transformed in to the current brigantine in 1992, sailing the Baltic Sea under the name Willem.
She enjoyed a career in the charter business, carrying sailing guests, taking part in match races and participating in many sailing ship events.
In 2010, she was sold to a French owner and renamed La Malouine. It took Roy Kerr three years to buy her and bring her to Scotland.
Tall Ship La Malouine is a not-for-profit organisation.
She has visited Barrow and Whitehaven in recent years.
Her visit follows the success of Galeón Andalucía in Whitehaven last month.
The ship, a floating museum, attracted so many visitors, it extended its stay in the town.
Taste of the Sea will also see two TV chefs will appear at Cumbria’s Taste of the Sea festival next month.
Jack Stein, son of Rick, and now an international chef in his own right and Cumbria’s own MasterChef winner, Irini Tzortzoglou, will appear on the demo stage at the Maryport event.
Now in its fifth year, the festival will be held around the harbourside, which includes a new event space.
There will also be a producers’ market to browse, culinary experts on hand, hot food and cold drinks, a children’s fairground, music stage, rum bar and beer marquee.
There will also be hot and cold seafood traders, an oyster bar and fish to buy straight from the Chelaris boat.
Entertainment will include sea shanty bands, storytelling and roaming street theatre, as well as a children’s postcard trail to take visitors all around the town.
