Gig Championship this weekend
With 131 boats the Gig Championships this weekend are a bit bigger than the Portobello Skiff Regatta on 30/31 July.
Row Porty: bringing rowing back to Portobello
29 Apr
2011
22 Apr
2011
Early Sunday morning, 17th April: boats waiting on the beach before the excitement begins. From left to right: the 1920 Jolly Boat recently donated to Portobello by the Broughty Ferry Rowing Club; Icebreaker, our first boat; Boatie Blest and Boatie Rows, from Cockenzie/Port Seton. Image (c) Max Blinkhorn
Jenny Skylark launch day diary
18 Apr
2011
Rowporty unveil their community-built boat (video)
via local.stv.tv
Yesterday's launch of Jenny Skylark, Portobello's second St Ayles Skiff, was a tremendous success - a huge thanks to everyone who helped in so many ways.
A proper write up and pictures will follow soon, in the meantime a nice article from STV - and a video - click the photo! (Video starts after the advert)
15 Apr
2011
Coastal Rowing coming to Musselburgh
Sitting between probably the two strongest Coastal Rowing clubs in the country, there is now a move afoot to start a Club at Musselburgh and Fisherrow.
They are currently hunting for somewhere to build, people to help build, fundraise, and eventually of course to row.
If you live in the area and want to get involved, please get in touch with Quintin Pink by email, or on 0131 665 3595.
It will be good to see a renaissance of Coastal Rowing at Fisherrow.
Alec Jordan
Exciting to learn that we'll have another club just 30 minutes row from Portobello. More fun on the water!
And nice that Alec thinks we're one of the strongest clubs in the country!
12 Apr
2011
Video: Coastal rowing at Portobello | Caledonian Mercury - Outdoors
Superb video - really captures the fun of building and rowing boats in Portobello.
7 Apr
2011
Help launch Portobello's second skiff on Sunday 17 April
On Sunday 17th, Portobello's new skiff will be carried along the prom from Joppa to Bath Street, then down onto the beach for a naming ceremony.
Join us on the prom from 12 noon.
We are rowporty!
We've built Icebreaker & Jenny Skylark, two five person rowing boats, for everyone in Portobello to row for recreation, exercise and racing.
The boats are St Ayles Skiffs, designed by internationally renowned small boat designer Iain Oughtred for the Scottish Coastal Rowing Project. She's part of a fleet of skiffs around Scotland and beyond.
Rowporty is a project of the Portobello Sailing & Kayaking Club. Owned on behalf of the community by PS&KC, the boats are kept in the boat park on the Prom at the foot of Bath Street. We row off Portobello beach and take the boats to regattas across Scotland.
We'd love to have you on board! Click here to get started!
Other St Ayles Skiffs
Other traditional & coastal rowing
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