Peel’s Traditional Boat Weekend is underway.
There’s a wealth of events taking place in the Western port over the next few days until Monday.
They include a boat-building contest and race, seafood cookery demonstrations, and parades of sail on Friday and Monday.
Organiser Mike Clark explains just what makes a boat “traditional”:
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