Coastal and offshore rowing
France is leading the development of modern sliding seat seagoing boats, "Yoles",[citation needed] and National Competition here is well established with FISA, the worldwide regulatory body for rowing, encouraging the expansion of the sport to other countries.This has taken place mainly on False Bay from the naval base at Simon's Town, but there have also been regular outings to bodies of water elsewhere in the region, including the Berg and Breede Rivers, Langebaan and Hermanus lagoons, and the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of Cape Point.The Irish Sea from Skerries in North Dublin, heading south as far as Arklow, Co. Wicklow is governed by the East Coast Rowing Council.Throughout the summer season the different associations of coastal rowing in Ireland hold championships using either the traditional boats of the area or the Celtic Yawl.Irish crews generally participate in large numbers at the club based World Coastal Rowing Championships.in 2018 a competition of five races was expected to be held for Yole de mers in Muiden, Loosdrecht, Medemblik Rotterdam and Amsterdam IJburg.The Spanish seafaring tradition has left a very important heritage of coastal rowing scull boats, in another time devoted to tasks of fishing, and now used for sport and leisure activities.The Cornish Pilot Gig Association is the largest British sea rowing group and preserves a tradition using both original and new boats made to a closely controlled specification.A strong racing scene has developed around these gigs and club affiliation extends from Manningtree, on the Essex/Suffolk border, to Maldon, in the south of the county.Following about forty years of design development using chined plywood hulls, both Guernsey and Jersey are now importing superior double and single washdeck fibreglass boats from France.The open Welsh Celtic Longboat style craft introduced in the mid-70s has since the early 2000s evolved into a double skinned "washdeck" boat and now is the only design under construction.Bow and stroke side is reversed from CARA and HDARA to make the clockwise buoy turn more effective, with bowside pulling the boat around.Regatta races are typically conducted along the beach, round a buoy (one for each competitor, moored in a line), and back (1,000 m or 0.54 nmi both ways).The St Ayles is built from a plywood kit, with the express intention of keeping the construction costs to a minimum to increase the uptake.Celtic Sea rowers in Wales and Ireland have adopted modern designs of fixed seat boats, loosely based on the Irish currach,[9] which itself is still used by sea rowers in both countries and the Cork Yawl, which was the base design for the Celtic yawl used for the Irish Coastal Rowing Championships run by Rowing Ireland.Stability is achieved by a broader waterline beam with safety ensured through the use of positive flotation, self-bailing capacity, supplemented by the rower's seamanship skills.Open water rowing in North America is popular on the Chesapeake Bay, in coastal towns of Massachusetts, Long Island Sound communities in Connecticut and New York, California, and Washington.
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