Castle Race Series – An event – A real Event

2 July 2021 • 1 minute read

Yes thats right, we actually provided pontoon to a real event, with people! We’ve had the pleasure of providing Castle Race Series with pontoons for their events at Cholmondeley Castle and Gardens and Hever Castle for a number of years now.

Sadly owing to the impact of Covid in 2020 as with pretty much all events we were unable to assist and the event itself didn’t go ahead. However with light at the end of the tunnel and the reduction in restrictions their most recent event at Cholmondeley Castle was able to go ahead and we couldn’t be happier!

We’ve massively missed providing pontoons to events over the last 18 months and we hope that this is just the start of a return to normality of all of us!

If you’ve got an upcoming event we can assist with then let us know, we’d be delighted to help!

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