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.
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Muckross Head of the River was held on Saturday the 10th December, at the National Rowing Centre. The club had a big entry with a number of our young athletes having their first competitive row. Shandon won six pennants reflecting one of our most successful outings for a number of years.
Winners were Mens Intermediate 2- (Jack Casey and Andy Harrington) by 3 seconds from Neptune with four UCC intermediate crews also behind them. MJ16 1X with Jack reversing the Skibb Head result and beating Andy into second place who in turn was nearly one minute ahead of 3rd. WJ18 4X- (Laura, Roisin, Holly, Saoirse) repeated their Skibb Head win over Muckross and with Laura and Roisin also winning the WJ18 2X. WJ16 8+ (Katie Nagle, Sophie Healy, Zoe Kampff, Clodagh Scannell, Rebecca O'Sullivan, Lile McCarthy, Leah McCurtain, Daisy Callanan and Meg Holland - cox) in their first outing won by just 2 seconds from Shannon. WJ14 4X+ beat our B crew.
Just to emphaise the importance of making every stroke count, as well as winning two events by 3 seconds or less we also had three very near misses. The WJ14 4X+ lost by just one second to Lee, the WJ18 1X (Saoirse Horgan) lost by two seconds and the MJ14 4X+ by six seconds.
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Six junior club members participated in the recent national squad assessment trials in Newry. Following a tough, competitive assessment incorporating an ergometer test on Saturday and a sculling trial on Sunday four of our triallists - Andy Harrington, Jack Casey, Laura Coleman and Roisin Merz were selected for inclusion in the first draft. Congratulations to them and we wish them the best of luck in the next assessment trials in February.
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The Club has placed an order for a Fillipi Coxless Four, a Fillipi Sculling Boat and six sets of Concept 11 sculling blades. This top of the range racing equipment is due to be delivered in January. The new boats and oars will give our athletes every opportunity to compete at the highest level in the sport. Such purchases are made possible by the great committment of all club members to fund raising events such as the recent Rowatalon. We are lucky to have such committed members in the club and we look forward to your continued support in the future. -
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On a perfect day for rowing (Saturday 19th Nov) at the National Rowing Centre in Farran Woods our 22 entered crews ejoyed some excellent racing. A number of juniors had their first competitive row and our novice women had their maiden outings in a quad four and a double. All showed great potential for the coming season. Pride of place goes to our pennant winners. Our Women's Junior 18 4X- (coxless quad) crew of Saorise Horgan, Laura Coleman, Roisin Merz and Holly Lingwood showed that all the hard training of the past two months was paying off when they won their event ahead of Skibbereen, Muckross and Cork Boat Club. Andy Harrington came in at the head of a big field in the Men's Junior 16 sculls and Karen Corcoran-O'Hare won the Women's Intermediate Sculls. -
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The club had a very successful outing at the recent Indoor Rowing Championships held in Trinity College, Dublin. We had 21 junior participants as well as Richard Morgan and Mike Griew in their masters' categories. In the MJ15 competition Luke Carroll and Dan Begley performed superbly to win Gold and Silver medals respectively. Both finished very strongly to come through the field in the second half of their row winning the first two places in just the last few seconds. Liam Hennessy and Colm Hennessy took Silver and Bronze in the MJ14 competition with Liam coming from as far back as 14th postion at half way to just pip Colm by 3 meters for the Silver. Ronan Byrne won Bronze in the MJ13s with Stephen O'Sullivan and Stuart Barry close behind
In the WJ15 event Daisy Callanan finished in a very creditable 4th place, In the WJ14 race Clodagh O'Sullivan also finished just outside the medals in 4th place with Fiona Keeley, Claudia O'Sullivan, Chloe Sullivan and Kristine Hartnett also well placed in a large field
Not to be outdone Mike Griew won a Silver Medal in the Mens 50 - 59 category and achieved his goal of beating 7 mins for the 2k row by 0.4 of a second! We also had the honour of having the oldest competitor in the competition in Richard Morgan now in his 82nd year. It was a fun day out and well done to all our competitors and to Catriona, Annemarie and Catherine who got everyone back home to Cork safe and sound.