This year’s Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week will be marked by the special visit of the Antigua Sailing Week team. During this popular yacht regatta, now also known as ‘the Cowes of the Caribbean’, the team is to meet up with partners, sponsors as well as crews, also meeting some of the key players who organise one of the biggest yacht regattas worldwide, assessing what can be used for the additional improvement of the Antigua Sailing Week’s management in the future.

The Antigua Sailing Week team and the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority (‘ABTA’) are providing a one day sponsorship at the Cowes Yacht Haven. Crews will enjoy post race hospitality courtesy of the ABTA. For three lucky crews there will also be the opportunity to walk away with a bottle of English Harbour Rum for each crew member racing on Sunday 12th August as well as one coveted free entry to Antigua Sailing Week 2013.

There is also another opportunity to get a taste of Antigua in the UK as tonight from 6.30pm English Harbour Rum arrives at the King and Queen Pub in Hamble quite literally. The King and Queen has the best range of Caribbean rums in the area with only one rum missing to date-English Harbour Rum. In conjunction with landlady Janet Bradley, the Antigua Sailing Week team and ABTA will finally make good and will be able to offer English Harbour Rum from the optics for those Antigua rum lovers who want to taste a piece of Antigua in between visits to the island.

Louay Habib, more renowned for his international race reports, will be DJ for the night, ensuring a complete Caribbean night right here in the UK. Whether one has visited Antigua and Antigua Sailing Week and misses the taste of the amber nectar, or is a rum lover and wants to see how English Harbour Rum measures up to his current favourite, he can come and join the team on Friday evening to enjoy a little bit of Antigua Sailing Week in the UK.