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Irish Sea Crossing completed!

The Beours crossed the line on Monday morning in style! Great performance and great experience for all. 21hrs and 13 minutes hard rowing. More news later!!

10am Friday 3rd May: Race start?

For those following the Beours, the only thing we can confirm for now is that there is no start today! Next possible start date is tomorrow Saturday 4th May, but not to be confirmed until after briefing tonight about 7pm.😐

There is a committee meeting today Friday at midday to review all.

There is a strong possibility that the start could be pushed to Sunday, but will try to keep all posted!

Tracker is up:

Race tracker - when race is good to go!

28th April: Beours are ready!

With one week to go, training is still ongoing but the Beours are ready for the trip now!

21st April: Beours take on Roaring Water Bay.

On Easter Sunday the Beours took on Cape Clear Island, in Roaring Water Bay, Baltimore, West Cork, and joined Naomhoga Chorcai in their Currachs on the Annual Easter Sunday row. Great experience and fun outing!

Wild out there this weekend! 13-14th April.

Nice coverage in the Evening Echo. Monday 6th April

Saturday 4th April training for 15hrs!

The crew were hard at training from 7.30am to midnight on Saturday, practicing crew swaps, and night rowing, with experiments on the lighting and handling of boats at night.

Conditions were challenging enough too and gave all a good taste of choppy waters in Cork Harbour, where wind over tide conditions can be interesting!

Crew also had a chance, thanks to Eddie English and Sail Cork to see what the mothership for the crossing would be like, after a brief visit to 'Hollygrounder'.

An experience for some!

Fantastic welcome from East Ferry Rowing Club too!

Monday 25th March - Oar upgrades!

Brian Whelton & George Henchion, working hard servicing the Oars for the Beours!

Sunday 24th March - Boat heads for service.

Tonight the boat was delivered by George, and Michael Henchion for service, before the race. George travelled to Cork City this evening after the Courtmac regatta, and delivered to the boatyard.

Saturday 23rd March - Training row

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St. Patricks Day - Cork Harbour.

Training with the RIB today in open water and fresh conditions.

Thursday 7th March - First outing for the new boat!

After a bit of a tidy up, the lovely new boat was launched for the first time this evening! Thanks again to Mount Charles rowing club, in Donegal for the loan of the Celtic longboat. Huge support and assistance from all at Cork Boat club again, and fantastic to have a space to store the boat for the next few weeks. Happy days!

Support boat:

After a slight change of plan, we now have a confirmed support boat for the race, to work with Philip Scallan's big RIB Barney.

TBC

More details to follow.

March 3rd - Arrival of boat!

A magical day today for Beours with Oars, our boat has arrived!!!

Thank you Victor Bridges for bringing her down to us, ‘Tamhnach tSalainn’ will take us on our challenge from Arklow to Aberystwyth Wales we had a quick lunch together, catching up and then a powerful blessing of the boat!!! Thanks to everyone who spoke, made us bond together even more, & now we are at one with the sea! 12 Beours with Oars making history & memories that will last a lifetime!The Celtic Longboat has arrived!

The boat has very kindly been leant to us by Michael McRourty and Mount Charles Rowing Club in Donegal. A huge thanks to George O'Brien , from Varty Rowing Club, who helped us source the boat.

March 2nd - Courtmacsherry Boat Club

Nice feature in Evening Echo, on Courtmacsherry Boat club and featuring most of the crew of the Celtic Challenge.

RIB support confirmed!

Philip Scallan, from Wexford and his fabulous RIB 'Barney' are on board. Philip is a very experienced helm/cox, and has many Irish Sea crossing under his belt already!

Philip has previously provided support to all sorts of Irish Sea Crossings in the past!

Philip is involved for many years with Wexford RNLI station.