This year’s edition of Poole Afloat takes place from 10am – 5pm this weekend, Saturday 23- Sunday 24 June, at Poole Quay and Harbourside Park . The event willl showcase a wide selection of sports boats, RIBS, chandlery products, clothing and watersports accessories.

There’s plenty of entertainment, too, with ‘Try-a-Boat’ sessions, face painting competitions and Try Dive sessions organised by Just U Dive. Poole Afloat will also host an exciting RNLI 24-hour liferaft challenge, ‘Adrift at Poole Afloat’. Four RNLI sea survival trainers will take to the water in a liferaft on Saturday 23rd June from 12pm for 24 hours to raise money for the charity’s ‘Train One, Save Many’ campaign.