Kilrush Skiff Headed For Strangford Lough

11th March 2025

WM Nixon

Seol Sionna's Kilrush-built St Ayles Skiff will be in Strangford Lough and then in Brittany in the first half of the 2025 season

Seol Sionna's Kilrush-based St Ayles Skiff Ealu is going back to France again this year for the Morbihan Festival in May, but meanwhile the team are preparing to road-trail north for the Strangford Spring Series at the south end of Strangford Lough on the weekend of March 22nd & 23rd, a major event in Irish Coastal Rowing.

St Ayles Skiffs in hot competition on Strangford Lough

Meanwhile, Seol Sionna's re-created Shannon Hooker Sally O'Keeffe, having made an award-winning voyage out to the traditional boat events in Brittany in the summer of 2024, is heading north from the Shannon Estuary along Ireland's Atlantic coast, and they hope to make a first visit to Inishbofin off the west coast of Connemara.

'Bofin bound – Seol Sionna's re-created Shannon Hooker Sally O'Keeffe will be headed "towards Inishbofn" this summer

Published in Coastal Rowing, Shannon Estuary

Published in Coastal Rowing

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WM Nixon

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland for many years in print and online, and his work has appeared internationally in magazines and books. His own experience ranges from club sailing to international offshore events, and he has cruised extensively under sail, often in his own boats which have ranged in size from an 11ft dinghy to a 35ft cruiser-racer. He has also been involved in the administration of several sailing organisations.

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