We had our first practice night on Tuesday 20th July.
15 people came to try the skiff. It was a great evening especially when one crew was playing the new game of dodge the fishing boat.
One of the male crews got the skiff up to 4.7 knots. The challenge has been laid so come on ladies [...]
The first Eyemouth Skiff has been finished, we’ve had a little practice today and she’ll be offically named and lauched by the newly crowned Herring Queen on Sunday 11th 2010.
Click Here to watch Johnny Johnston talking with Sarah Mack presenter from Landward about the Eyemouth Skiff.
Our cream tea has been a huge success and we’ve managed to raise over £500. I really need to thank everyone who came along and offered their support. I also need to thank everyone who baked scones. A big thanks to Joanna, Penny, Susan and Libby for staffing the kitchen. Barbara for selling Derek’s prints on [...]
We’re having a Cream Tea at the St. Abbs Community Centre on Sunday afternoon (from 2pm to 4pm 30th May 2010). Everyone’s welcome to come along, enjoy some homebaking and a nice cuppa and find out more about our progress. We’ll also have the first batch of “St Abbs Coastal Rowing Association” T-shirts for sale.
The Berwickshire News published an article about our builds. You can ready it here:
Eyemouth rowing project is a real community effort – Simon Duke
Thanks to Simon Duke for coming to visit us.
Simon Duke a reporter visited the workshop today and was inpressed by what he saw. Simon going to write an article for the next edition of the Berwickshire News our local paper. The Berwickshire News has also kindy agreed to place a free advert for our planned Cream Tea on the Afternoon of Sunday 30th [...]
Our local housing association (Berwickshire Housing Association) has very generously donated £300 to both the Eyemouth build and St Abbs build. We’d like to thank the Association for their support.
Collected our banner for the St. Abbs Coastal Rowing Association from FantasyPrints in Berwick this morning and it looks fantastic. We’ve put it up inside the workshop above our build. Spoken with Johnny and Eyemouth are planning to get a banner too.
Managed to get down to the workshop myself for a few hours, cut out the mould for the St Abbs boat. Eyemouth have progressed to the stage of glueing their first frame.
Looking down on the build. Eyemouth Boat to the top, St Abbs to the bottom.
St Abbs moulds cut out.
Eyemouth mould on stand.
Eyemouth begin Glueing [...]