Ballycastle’s Chris welcomes Tall Ships

Lord Moyle sea Captain Chris McCaughan from Ballycastle is pictured with Be Guayas Tall Ship in the background near Ballycastle.
By Una Culkin
Published 30th Jun 2015, 08:00 BST
The Guayas is a participant in tall ship regattas.PICTURE KEVIN MCAULEY/MCAULEY MULTIMEDIAThe Guayas is a participant in tall ship regattas.PICTURE KEVIN MCAULEY/MCAULEY MULTIMEDIA
The Guayas is a participant in tall ship regattas.PICTURE KEVIN MCAULEY/MCAULEY MULTIMEDIA

Chris presented the Be Guayas’ captain with a bottle of Coleraine Whiskey and Fair Trade chocolate as a welcome gift.

The Tall ship is making its way to Belfast for the weekend’s Tall Ships Festival.

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The Guayas is a sail training ship of the Ecuadorian Navy. Launched in 1976, it was named in jointly in honor of Chief Guayas, the Guayas river, and Guayas, the first steamship that was constructed in South America in 1841 and is displayed on the Ecuadorian coat of arms.

Lord Moyle sea Captain Chris McCaughan from Ballycastle pictured with Be Guayas Tall Ship in the background. INBM27-15SLord Moyle sea Captain Chris McCaughan from Ballycastle pictured with Be Guayas Tall Ship in the background. INBM27-15S
Lord Moyle sea Captain Chris McCaughan from Ballycastle pictured with Be Guayas Tall Ship in the background. INBM27-15S

The ship’s home base is Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Guayas is a three-masted barque with a steel hull that can display a sailing area of 1,410 square metres (15,200 sq ft). The main mast reaches 38 metres (124 ft 8 in) over deck.

The ship carries a crew of about 120 sailors as well as eighty cadets under the leadership of about 35 officers. The Guayas is one of four sailing ships built by Astilleros Celaya S.A. in Bilbao, the Gloria (Colombia) being the most similar ship, the other two sister ships are the Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), and the Cuauhtémoc (Mexico).

As an ambassador of its country, the Guayas is a participant in tall ship regattas.

PICTURE KEVIN MCAULEY/MCAULEY MULTIMEDIA