UPCOMING EVENTS
National Celtic Folk Festival, Portarlington, Victoria.
Over June 7-9th 2025 Monarchs Holiday Weekend Coastal Rowing Geelong and Warrnambool Community Rowing Club will be participating in the National Celtic Folk Festival with a hard stand display and community rowing. Come along and try rowing while listening to traditional folk music.
Sunday 6th July - Saturday 12th July 2025
St. Ayles Skiff World Championships 2025, Stranraer, Scotland
Australia has two crews from Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Perth, WA entered in this year's Skiffie Worlds in Stranraer. Sally Ward from Denmark Rowers will also be there participating with her other club, Nairn Coastal Rowing Club.
The Skiff Worlds is an opportunity to bring Community Rowing communities together and foster relationships that will see visitors from around the world turn up for a row at our clubs in the future.
Sunday 28th September, 2025
Denmark Classic Boat Show, Denmark, Western Australia
Denmark Rowers will hold it's third Classic Boat Show on the beautiful Denmark River in Western Australia. This year the show will include Skiff Pursuit Races where skiffs start around a 300m course in opposite directions and turn at an upstream and downstream mark and finish in opposite directions. This is a real crowd pleaser and novices under an experienced cox can give it a go safely in a narrow river. All crews welcome to use Denmark Rowers' skiffs. Depending on seriousness of registrations a knockout competition may be run.
And there will be the Cordless Drill Challenge. see below.
Brochure Cordless Drill C 2025
Saturday 24th January, 2026
Augusta Picnic Regatta, Augusta, Western Australia
Sunday 22nd February - Saturday 28th February, 2026
Steamers Run 26, Paynesville, Victoria
4 to 5 days of adventure rowing on Victoria's Gippsland Lakes and this year, up the tributary river systems. The weeks rowing will cover 80-90km and end in Paynesville for the Paynesville Classic Boat Rally where we will participate in the opening Parade of Sail. Details to be made available soon by SASCRAA.
IN THE NEWS
Twofold Bay Skiff Launch
Boydtown Shipyard near Eden, NSW, launched their first St Ayles Skiff "Kudingal" on 16th March at the Twofold Bay Yacht Club on Quarantine Beach. The skiff had been in build since February 2021 by the Eden Marine High School supported by Boydtown Shipyard and completed by Merrimbula's Men's Shed. The skiff will be under the care of the Twofold Bay Community Rowing Club and will be rowed by local High Schools and community members.
Kudingal is the name of a famous Indigenous whaler who sailed out of Eden/Twofold Bay which has a whaling history stretching back before white settlement.
Glenelg River Row
Coastal Rowing Geelong organised the inaugural Glenelg River Row 19-23 March 2025. Four skiffs rowed through the Lower Glenelg National Park on the beautiful lower reaches of the Glenelg river.
Tawe Nunnagah 2025
The Living Boat Trust in Franklin again organised a wonderful raid for sailors of small craft and rowers in St Ayles Skiffs to explore the Tasmanian coast from Recherche Bay to Hobart and back to Franklin. The culmination of the main raid was sailing in with the tall ships at the beginning of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. SASCRAA was well represented at the show displaying a St Ayles Skiff and holding a general meeting.
SASCRAA December 2024 Newsletter
Australasian Amateur Boatbuilder and Kitboats (#119 OCT/NOV?DEC 2022): St Ayles Skiffs Row the Rip
Scottish Coastal Rowing (June 2022): 10 Year Anniversary Film
Scottish Coastal Rowing (June 2021): Refugees & Skiffs
From the West (Jan 2021): Keeping the wind in his sails
From the ABC (8 Jul 2017) : Refugees who want to be like 'any other Australian' build boats and community
From the West Australian (12 June 2017): The grumpy old men rowing the Swan
From the Guardian (26 February 2016): Kiwi St Ayles Skiff Raid
