The Ramsey Rowing Club will be attending this year’s Queenie Festival for a display of some coastal rowing during the Friday and Saturday of the event.
This small but growing coastal rowing club are looking to attract new members and will be bringing some of their boats for display and demonstration in Port Erin bay on the Friday 29th June and Port St. Mary Saturday 30th June. Members will be on hand to explain coastal rowing and how you can take part in this great leisure and/or sporting exercise which makes the most out of the islands coastline.
In addition the club are keen to attract supporters and sponsors to develop a small water sports centre in Ramsey for their and other water based sporting clubs use. The hope is not only to give this and other water sport clubs a permanent base but to also attract ‘under 16’s’ members which they currently cannot do without proper changing facilities.
The club are a regular feature at the Castletown Regatta and take part in popular events such as the Viking Longboat Racing and the Castletown Snake Races, also organising their own growing, amateur, yearly competition; ‘The Mooragh Rowing Challenge’. This however will be the first time the club will be visiting the Queenie Festival and will be taking in what these Southern towns have to offer at this highly regarded event. Look out for them at the Port Erin Lifeboat day in August and expect their return to future Queenie Festivals, showing their support for great family days such as these.
Tim Croft, Queenie Festival organiser commented, “We were approached by the club to see if we could accommodate them and possibly put on some kind of event. I was delighted, as I for one didn’t realise a rowing club existed on the Isle of Man. This is what the festival is all about, helping others and getting into the great community spirit. I look forward to welcoming are northern rowers to the festival.”
If you’re interested in taking up rowing the Ramsey Rowing Club meet most Sundays at 10:00am and some weeknights at the Mooragh Lake Boathouse Cafe or opposite the Rugby Club on the Mooragh Promenade, Ramsey. Further information about the club can be found on their website at www.ramseyrowingclub.org or find and join them on Facebook.
The Isle of Man Queenie Festival takes place between 29 June and 1 July. For more information on the Isle of Man Queenie Festival please visit www.queeniefestival.com.
