Musselburgh’s Riding of the Marches is a local tradition which goes back over 300 years where, once every 21 years, a procession of locals many on horseback travel around the old town boundaries cutting turfs and declaring ‘ It’s a’ oor ain.’ This year’s event is on Friday 29 July. Eskmuthe Rowing Club decided to …
A sizeable squad of North Berwick rowers made the annual pilgrimage to the seemingly perennial sunshine of Ullapool this weekend and emerged victorious having won the overall club shield for the very first time! As ever Ullapool Coastal Rowing Club ran a fantastically well organised and thoroughly enjoyable regatta with races taking place on the …
On Saturday 7th May, a team of six North Berwick rowers drove south in anticipation of the first Skiff circumnavigation of Lindisfarne. The haar was all around us, and the further we travelled, the more unlikely the trip looked. On arrival across the causeway , we were greeted by the friendly crews from Dunbar, Amble, …
An NBRC crew, coxed by David Davidson, spent a couple of chilly hours of the evening of Wednesday 11 May working with an RNLI crew, led by Simon Cowan, on techniques that could be involved in the rescue of a skiff by a lifeboat. A small but hardy bunch of members braved the biting east …
First decent evening of the year, better late than never, there wasn’t a woolly hat in sight and we had boats on the water from 6:00pm until dusk…starting with juniors, then a mixture of crews with some training for the forthcoming World Skiff Championships at Strangford Lough and other crews out for a leisurely paddle …
A 28 hour journey took us (Finlay & Elisa) from Glasgow International Airport to Te Haruhi Bay, Shakespear Regional Park, New Zealand – in what is possibly one of the longer commutes in the Scottish Coastal Rowing circuit. Our arrival doubled the size of the existing Scottish contingent from two (both from Row Porty) to …
Great to say goodbye to horrible weather, beautiful sunny crisp day in January and a great opportunity to get a little further away from the harbour, to Bass Rock and Seacliff. That’s it now, we’ve past the shortest day, we’re officially heading for summer 🙂
On Christmas Day we decided to go out to play on the water, rowing around the Craig and sharing mince pies and chocolate Lebkuchen. After the line from a lobster pot got caught in the rudder, we used the rudder-freeing-device and returned to the harbour in anticipation for the big Christmas Day feast that was …
In between hoolies we managed to get two crews on the water for a bit of winter training
Well done to all who made the effort, North Berwick, Musselburgh and Port Seton, put on our brave faces helping each other out with lifting boats and filling in spaces in others teams too. We had a laugh, tried to keep cosy and at least, got to row. This was pretty challenging for coxes as …