The big gig

News of this years Rum Ball in the Jungle at Skandia Cowes Week

The Charlie Fish party at Skandia Cowes Week is set to bigger and better this year with all profits going to the John Merricks Sailing Trust.

The Rum Ball in the Jungle is on Friday 5th August, 8pm – 2am at Northwood House, with great views overlooking Cowes, there will be no better place to be for the Skandia Cowes Week fireworks finale!

Features include live music, free rum promotions, a complimentary barbeque, the famous t-shirt tickets and the truly infamous hot tubs, this will be the hottest party in town with not a dinner jacket in site.

Tickets - http://www.charliefish.co.uk or tel: 07799 144255

There will be three special guest appearances at the Rum Ball in the Jungle - all with special connections with the John Merricks Sailing Trust.

Ben Ainslie MBE, (double Olympic Gold Medallist and patron of the JMST), is helming the Farr 45 John Merricks, recently donated by David McLean, for Skandia Cowes Week, along with the members of the Volvo RYA Keelboat Programme.

Shirley Robertson OBE, (double Olympic gold medallist and ambassador for the JMST), and Ian Walker, (double Olympic silver medallist, Americas Cup skipper and Trustee of the JMST), are on the TP 52 Patches, owned by Eamon Conneely, for Skandia Cowes Week and the Rolex Fastnet Race.

Anyone who gets a picture of all three naked together in one of the hot tubs gets a life-time subscription to TheDailySail.....