The championship course lies just off Delamont Country Park , at the mouth of the Quoile Estuary.
The Ayle of Quinte’s Team Canada continues to arrive in Ireland over the next couple of days. We will be dealing with jet lag in advance of the races which begin with a large flotilla on Sunday. Over 50 clubs will be represented by 1000 participants in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. As you may know there are different types of coastal rowing boats, including the Irish East Coast skiffs and, of course, the Scottish coastal rowing boats that we use, the St Ayles skiffs. Racing these hand made wooden boats has become a huge sport in many countries where teams train hard and race each other, maintaining the traditions of the past. The sport of coastal skiff racing has its origins in the occupation of hobbling, circa the 1800’s, where the first boat to reach an incoming ship won the contract to pilot it into the harbour and unload, then reload, the cargo. Competition was fierce. We expect the competition in the races of the week to come to also be competitive, but hopefully not as fierce.
Your cub reporter reporting from Skerries, Ireland Jane Dean
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