SPREADING THE TALL SHIPS WORD

We’re on the crest of a wave! Our bid to tell the world about Sunderland leg of next year’s Tall Ships Races is sailing ahead.

We launched our Wear On Board campaign to get people all over the globe posing with our new Tall Ships poster.

And what a response we’ve had already.

Ships’ crews and captains have already got behind the project.

They are at Turku in Finland for a leg of this year’s races and they were delighted to be a part of our promotion.

Many of them wanted to get involved including the captains of the Royalist; Black Diamond of Durham; Sorlandet; Royal Helena; and the Danish vessel Tara - Heart of Steel. All are proudly pictured holding a copy of the poster.

The crew of the Polish class C vessel Tesia also posed with the poster, as did one man from Harlingen in Holland which is another of the destinations in the 2018 races.

Representatives from Sunderland City Council visited Turku and took copies of the poster with them.

They described the enthusiasm for Wear On Board.

A council spokesman said: “Everyone was very happy to join in and liked the idea of helping to spread the word about the event internationally. They thought that it was nice that the community of Sunderland was so well behind the event, which was reflected in the newspaper’s involvement.”

The Sunderland Echo has just launched the colourful new poster in the last month and we won’t rest until the message has been spread far and wide that the races are coming to our city. That’s where you come in. We want our readers to promote Sunderland’s big international event all around the world.

In fact, whenever you go on holiday, go on a day out, or visit relations anywhere in the world, we want you to take a copy of the Wear On Board poster.

“Everyone was very happy to join in and spread the word” COUNCIL SPOKESMAN