Model Boat Racing in Antigua on Easter Sunday

Model Boat Racing is big in the Falmouth Harbour Community, Antigua and every Easter Sunday for the last 13 years, the Ministry of Tourism has organized a Model Boat Regatta.

During the weeks leading up to the event, the guys are really busy getting their boats in top condition and of course heckling each other over bottles of beer, during pre-race meetings on which boat is faster and which boat won't even get in the water.

So come Easter Sunday, the excitement is really in the air with racers out to prove who really has the bragging rights. True to form the racers with the biggest mouths pre-event (will call know names) spend most of the event fine tuning their boats, so they never ever really do make it in the water. And well the quiet racers usually have the deadly boats that always finish on top. I love model boat racing not because i love boat racing but because of the camaraderie and the whole atmosphere created during the event.