Category: Rowing boat

Coniston Regatta 2013, 30th May to the 1st June

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The fourth Coniston Regatta 2013 runs from Thursday 30th May to the Saturday the 1st June, and everyone is invited – including traditional boat owners and their boats.

Organiser Greg Simpson has been in touch to say that among the boats booked in so far include a 1930s Peterborough canoe, a 1910s Thames sailing skiff, and numerous steam launches and model boats.

The events are based at the English Lake District home of Swallows & Amazons, Bank Ground Farm – which in the book is called Holly Howe and is the holiday home where the Swallows stayed each summer.

Attractions for boating enthusiasts and kids include exhibition stands presented by Windermere Steamboat Museum, Good Wood Boatbuilders, Patterson Boatworks and various other local craftsmen, and steam engines.

SY Gondola and Coniston Launch will be available for trips, there will be boats for hire and some boat owners attending the regatta will be offering sailing trips.

Children will enjoy a kids’ fishing competition and a miniature railway. The tea rooms open from 11am each day.

There are also a range of evening entertainments, including an outdoor screening of a film version of Swallows and Amazons.

Fishing on the Costa Brava, 1958

My thanks to intheboatshed.net regular Hans-Christian Rieck for pointing out this dreamy piece about the Costa Brava before the big numbers of tourists arrived.

Sail and oar event Raid England 2013 – and 2014

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A beautiful day at Horsey on the Norfolk Broads

The fourth Raid England sail and oar event – Raid England 2013 – is to take place on the Norfolk Broads, and is being organised by Neville and Val Khambatta with the help of the The Norfolk Punt Club.

I also gather Raid England 2014 is to be in the Falmouth area.

The dates for the 2013 event are the 5th to the 9th August, and are in the school holidays to allow younger Raiders to take part. The plan is that while the boats will move around each day, the crews will be brought back to Wroxham each evening and returned to their boats in the morning.

If you don’t know the area, The Broads are a sheltered collection of rivers and lakes, with easy navigation and slight but noticeable tides. The main hazard I would guess would be if a group of Raiders had the misfortune to meet careless holidaymakers in hire boats travelling in the opposite direction.

The number of boats raiding this popular holiday destination will be limited to 20, and applications will be treated on a first-come-first-served basis. The organisers point out that entrants will need to be able to lower their masts in order to negotiate The Broads’ occasional bridges, and that all boats must be able to make progress under sail or oars, depending on the conditions.