HI All,

We are again going to have ESB works on pylon by the club.  This means that no boats can be stored under the pylon,  we have moved boats away form this area.  Shandon Boat club have kindly allowed us to use the area to the left as you enter the gate during the time ESB will be working on Pylon.  This is set to continue until Mid September.  All rows that we have regularly will be accommodated,  including mid morning rows on Tuesday and fridays.  If there are any rows that you would like to organise between  times of 8am to 5pm monday to friday outside of our usual rows,  then please contact me so i can discuss with ESB.  Thank you.  Antoinette

Hi All,  our site is looking very overgrown and needs some TLC.  If anyone is available This Thursday at 6pm an come along and help,  please bring with you any strimmers, clippers, rake etc. to help out and bring our lovely site back to where it should be.  All help appreciated.  Thank you Antoinette 

Update to members, 18^th February 2026

New Committee is …

Chairperson Stacy Tinkler

Deputy Chair Hammy, William Hammond

Captain Colin O Donnell

Deputy Captain Feel free to get your name inserted here!!!

Treasurer Deirdre O’Shea

Paula Spillane

Caitriona Ni Mhaidin

There’s been lots happening since the AGM, with a few hours of meetings under our belts already! So here’s a summarised version to keep you all somewhat in the loop of the work happening in the background on all of our behalf

l We’ve got our training from the last committee on using the forum. There’s now plans to tweak the settings on it to see if we can improve its functionality and also see if we can improve access for screen readers for disability access

l Hopefully you’ve all signed up and paid up again as members for the next year, I’ll be using the members list to put out the duty captains rota soon. Keep an eye on the forum. Of course I’ll assign plenty of people to dates that won’t suit but swaps can be done.

l Our aim for this year is to get as many people as possible involved in ocean to city. I believe that captains training, training for strokes and general skills training along with fitness training will help this. Keep an eye on the forum for training session announcements

l We want all members to know what boats are in use and which ones are out of service. Oisin is putting together a document to have available to all members on the forum with a simple traffic light system… red for dangerous don’t use, amber for small issues to be aware of, and green for go go go!

l I have had a suggestion put to me of club hoodies. These have been very popular in the past. If anyone would like to take this on just let us know. You don’t need to be a committee member to organise anything in this club! We’re anything but autocratic!

l Oisin is after getting funding for affordable first aid, see further details on the forum for the end of this month

l Our order is in for 2 new naomhogs with Meitheal Mara.

l A fun regatta is planned for April. Keep an eye on the forum for further updates

l Ongoing work is happening to establish what the plans are for the CMAC (Cork Maritime Activity Centre) and how it might benefit us. See further updates on the forum

l Just a reminder to members, especially in the dark winter months when putting boats back on trestles that the boats with lights on need to be the easily accessible ones. This is a safety issue!!! We recently had a group who couldn’t launch for safety reasons because of this. Also on this point, we have a club rule of a minimum of 2 boats out during hours of darkness.

There’s more than just this, but I want to keep it brief. As always if you have suggestions or ideas I hope you find the committee approachable. Do keep in mind that it’s not a full time job for any of us, we’re just mere mortals and we’re volunteers!

Mise le meas,

Colin, your new club captain