Inaugural Galway Bay Sea kayak Race Announcement

[Seanie]

The inaugural Galway Bay Sea Kayak Race is set to take place on Sunday 24th May 2009 (weather permitting) during the first weekend of the Volvo Ocean race Stopover Festival.

The aim is to to run a safe event that caters for all abilities, promotes sea kayaking, and contributes a visual maritime spectacle to the Ocean race stopover festival. The Volvo Ocean fleet is due to arrive Galway between Friday and Sunday 22-24th so excitement levels are expected high that weekend.

The race course will consist of laps of semi-sheltered inner Galway Bay (directly in front of city/docks). Comprehensive Rescue boat cover will be provided. Classes offered will cater for all abilities and include:

Novice Class including sit on tops (singles & doubles), approx 3km
Standard Sea kayak class (singles & doubles), approx 8-10km
Racing Sea Kayak Class (singles & doubles), , approx 12-14km

The race is planned to start from new dock area of Galway City at approx; 14:00hrs on Sunday 24th May 2009. Directions to follow. A limited number of racing boats/skis will be available for hire.

More details will be posted shortly.

To help guage potential race numbers & arrange appropriate numbers of safety cover boats, it would be helpful to send expressions of intent to participate to [email protected] , thank you.

Hope to see you in Galway

All the best
Jim Morrissey


087 7565578
[email protected]

[chris_tierney]

Thanks to all who came down, yesterday was a good day- I was the guy taking the pics, here are the best ones:

http://chrisdidthis.com/galleries/gbskr/

[seanmc]

Nice photo's there Chris, especially given the difficult conditions.

For those of you who weren't there, you missed a great day with terrible conditions to rival any decent whitewater river.