Shandon Boat Club

Shandon Boat Club is Cork’s Number 1 boat club. Founded more than 130 years ago and with a long and proud tradition of competitive rowing, Shandon today is a vibrant and growing club with a strong membership, a well appointed and recently renovated clubhouse and excellent equipment. We are a family club with an open welcome for new members interested in the sport of rowing.

Welcome to Shandon Boat Club. Please click here to find out more about our club.

Our Mission

Shandon Boat Club aims to provide world class facilities, equipment and coaching in a safe, secure, friendly and enjoyable environment to boys and girls, men and women, interested in competitive rowing.

A friendly, competitive club with a committed membership competing at local, national and international level.

Become a member

Shandon Boat Club is always happy to welcome new members subject only to our ability to provide adequate coaching resources. We welcome boys and girls, men and women between the ages of 12 and 30 interested in trying out the sport for the first time or in developing previously acquired skills to new levels.

To find out more about becoming a member or trying our free taster sessions for beginners please click here.

Club Location

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News & Notices

Following the first Grand League regatta organised by Queen's Universtiy Belfast Rowing Club at Castlewellan, Co Down the Shandon Boat Club placings in the Overall League and in the four Grand League Divisions are as follows:

Overall Grand League: 7th place out of 32 placings

Men's Divison One: 2nd place out of 20

Women's Divison One: 6th place out of 13

Men's Divison Two: No points

Women's Division Two: 15th place out of 17

The cancellation of Skibbereen Regatta (one of our two "home" regattas) due to weather conditions is a disadvantage to Shandon and other Cork based clubs but we are still strongly positioned to due well particularly in the Men's Divison One category.

The next Grand League event is Dublin Metropolitian Regatta on Saturday 25th May at which we expect to have a strong entry in both Division One categories.
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The club took 43 young rowers to participate in Wallingford Regatta on Dorney Lake in England over the May bank holiday weekend. It was an experience!!

First the bad news. The jeep broke down. Everyone had to get up at 5 in the morning on racing day. Everyone was knackered. We had no wins. The food was not great - so Tom said. Neither was the accomodation - Tom said that too. And the snoring!!

And the good news. We got the boats to Dorney Lake - thanks to Peter Ogden who drove 3 hours from London to pick them up and 3 hours back again to Dorney. We got the boats home to Shandon - Peter again. We got the jeep home (eventually) - thanks to Henrik Merz and his amazing contacts. Everyone enjoyed themselves (creid nó ná creid) - thanks to Tom, George, Henrik, John, Clodagh and Ulrike. And that's what it was all about folks!

And the learnings. Next year we will probably go abroad again but go earlier and take fewer. We will have a big camp for everyone else "at home" in Killarney, Galway, Belfast, wherever. (Note to self - KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid!).
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Following the final international trial for selecting the various 2013 Irish International junior squads we were delighted to learn that two Shandon members were selected for the Junior World Rowing Championships in Lithuania. Jack Casey and Andy Harrington will represent Ireland in the Junior Men's Double Scull. This is a big honour for Jack and Andy and indeed for Shandon Boat Club. It is 16 years since two Shandon Juniors, Claire Rose and Jane O'Connell, last represented Ireland in the World Junior Championships.

We wish Jack and Andy every success in representing Ireland in this, the premier world-wide annual event for Junior rowers.

Final selections for the Coupe de la Jeunesse (i.e. the European Junior Championships) and the Home International Championships have yet to be made and a number of Shandon members remain in the running for selection.

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The first Grand League Regatta of 2013 was run by Queens University Belfast at Castlewellan, Co Down on 27th April. Due to the distance involved the club had a relatively small entry but, as it transpired, a very high quality one. From eight events we secured five victories, a third and two fourths.

The winners were the Women's Intermediate Quad (Daisy Callanan, Clodagh Scannell, Clodagh O'Sullivan and Saorise Horgan); The Men's Junior 18 pair (Colm Hennessy and Luke Carroll); The Men's Single Scull (Andy Harrington - with Jack Casey a very close 2nd); The Women's Junior 18 pair (Daisy Callanan and Clodagh Scannell); The Men's Junior 18 Double (Andy Harrington and Jack Casey).

These results should see us very well placed on the Grand League tables - particularly in the Men's Division One - which are due to be published shortly. With our two "home" regattas at the National Rowing Centre - Cork and Skibereen- yet to come we can be optimistic about our ability to compete for top honours in one or more of the four Divisions in 2013.