Arklow Rowing Club

Arklow Rowing Club is a coastal rowing club located in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland. Founded in 1990, the club is a member of the East Coast Rowing Council and affiliated to Rowing Ireland, and races year-round in local, national, and international events.

Arklow Rowing Club
LocationDock Road, Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
Coordinates52°47′32.5″N 6°8′50.4″W
Founded1990 (1990)
Websitearklowrowingclub.ie

Racing

Each year the ECRC organises a summer schedule of regattas at clubs from Ringsend to Arklow where crews of all ages compete during the regatta. ECRC clubs also regularly compete in the biennial ‘Celtic Challenge’, a race of over 90 miles from Arklow to Aberystwyth in Wales as well as other long distance races such as the annual Ocean to City race in Cork, or the Kish lighthouse row in Dublin. Clubs can be regularly seen training at sea along the East Coast between April and September each year. Present day racing skiffs reflect their traditional origins, and are 25-foot-long (7.6 m), clinker built, double-enders.

Achievements

Arklow won the women’s double, while John Whooley and Alan Goodison won the men's doubles for the club in the Irish offshore championships in Kerry during September of 2018.[1]

References
  1. Correspondent, Rowing. "Boomer Best at Offshore Rowing Championships". Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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