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.
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With 72 athletes competing in 44 events on the weekend of the 11th/12th/13th July this is the largest involvement we have had in the Irish Rowing Championships. We wish all our competitors the best of luck and fingers crossed that we might have another championship pennant for our wall.
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Shandon has been awarded €75,000 in the recently announced sports grant allocation. Needless to say this represents a very significant financial bonus for the club. We applied for just over €80,000 to purchase 6 new boats (doubles and fours) and the 90% of the application received will allow us to purchase sufficient boats to support the continued development of the club over the next few years.
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The "inaurgural" Cork Copenhagen Junior 16 Regatta was held at Shandon Boat Club on Saturday 5th July and proved to be a great success.
Eighteen young Danish rowers with their coaches and some parents arrived in Cork on Friday and were welcomed at a reception in the Cork Port Authority Chambers on Friday evening. The young rowers were hosted by local Cork families and I would like to thank the five Shandon families who welcomed the visitors into their homes.
The regatta itself showed that the local Cork rowers were well up to the standard of our visitors - in spite of giving away inches in height. Four of the eight races in which Copenhagen crews participated were won by Cork crews with Shandon winning two of them (the WJ16 4X+ and the MJ16 2X).
However the two feature eights races for the Port of Cork-Maersk trophies were won by Copenhagen.
We have already agreed to visit Copenhagen on May bank holiday weekend in 2015 when we are confident that we can bring the trophies home.
Also thanks to Paula Harrington and her lady volunteers ran an excellent "tuck shop" which raised €344 for club funds. Well done ladies.
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The following club members have been selected to row for Ireland this summer:
Club de la Jeunesse, Libourne, France. 1st August Colm Hennessy
Home Internationals, Cork. 26th July Dan Begley, Stephen O'Sullivan, Katie Nagle, Fiona O'Keeffe
Congratulations to our internationals and we are sure that they will do the club proud.
Also congratulations to our 2013 international representative, Jack Casey, who has been awarded a rowing scholarship by University College Cork.
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Our 2014 Learn to Row Camp is now fully subscribed with 36 participants. This year it will be run by Dave Heffernan. Dave is an ex-Shandon rower who is returning home from England. He has rowed for Ireland at Senior international level and won a LW Mens 1X Irish Championship for Shandon in 2011.