Ocean to City & Cork Harbour Festival
Description
Cork Harbour Festival is a week-long celebration of Ireland's unique maritime heritage, set in the second largest natural harbour in the world. Cork Harbour Festival is a week-long celebration of Ireland's unique maritime heritage, set in the second largest natural harbour in the world.
Whether a visitor to the region or a native Corkonian, we invite you to experience the spectacular fleet of boats taking part in Ocean to City - An Rás Mór from the many vantage points along the harbour; taste from our seafood market; go crab fishing in Cobh; explore our many heritage sites; brave a guided ghostly trail; sail in the harbour or come for a kayak and discover Cork City from a different perspective.
The flagship event of the festival, Ocean to City - An Rás Mór is Ireland's premier rowing spectacle. It attracts hundreds of participants from all over the world competing in everything from traditional wooden boats, currachs, gigs and longboats to Chinese dragon boats, kayaks and canoes. It is the largest event in Cork Harbour and a firm fixture on its cultural calendar.
Now in its third year, the festival celebrates Cork Harbour as a natural and cultural resource, with the communities and their stories at the heart of it. There are plenty of free family events happening throughout the festival. So, come and join us for a magical maritime week!
Our sincere thanks go to Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Port of Cork and Fáilte Ireland without whose financial backing this festival would not be possible.
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facebook.comOcean to City early bird registration ending soon! We are delighted to say we've had a great start to our Ocean to City race registration. We're thrilled that our entries are up again this year with a nice variety of boats making their way to Cork on June 2nd. As you know, Ocean to City has been going from strength to strength and is now bigger than ever. We can't wait to do it all again, so make sure to be part of it and don't miss out on the Early Bird offer which ends next week Wednesday, February 28th. http://oceantocity.com/
We just love the #PureCork destination brand for Cork! It'll be so good to see the increased promotion of our beautiful city and county - and in particular the harbour and all the fab #maritime activities happening here!
We can't wait to see Cork Harbour Festival flags flying right across the harbour again this year! If you see a flag there will be a programme event happening nearby. From Saturday 2 - Sunday 10 June 2018 #corkharbourfest18 #purecork
We're just loving the #PureCork destination brand for Cork! It'll be so good to see increased promotion of our beautiful city and county - and in particular Cork Harbour and all the fab #maritime activities happening here! Pure Cork Cork County Council Cork City Council Ireland's Ancient East #corkharbourfestival #oceantocity #corkharbour
Not quite ready to attempt Ocean to City, then the Inter-Firm Dragon Boat Challenge might just be for you. A fantastic day of fun, adventure, team bonding with a splash of healthy rivalry on our own lovely Lee. More details available on our website. http://meithealmara.ie/inter-firm-dragon-boat-challenge-back-2018/ Alternatively you can email dragons@meithealmara.ie
After 63 days, six hours and 25 minutes at sea, solo rower Damian Browne has completed the Atlantic Challenge rowing race. What an achievement #damianbrowne https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/former-rugby-star-completes-epic-row-across-atlantic-ocean-1.3394034
Another nice challenge to add to the training schedule this year - all while taking in the beautiful County Antrim coast. By Cairndhu Rowing Club
Time flies - we're already half way through February which means only 2 more weeks of this Early Bird offer. See http://oceantocity.com/registration/ for full details!
Look at these strong oarswomen. Very impressive in that swell!
Fancy rowing a currach in the sunny Med? This is your chance! The 9th Mediterranean Currach Regatta takes place 18th March 2018 in Barcelona. Organiser and currach builder Mark Redden from Currach Rowing Barcelona sent out the invitation earlier this month: ''A big shout out to all our followers in the worldwide community of Currach makers/racers and pleasure rowers. We'd love to see as many of you as possible on the start line or even amongst the spectators on Sunday 18th March in Base Nautica in Barcelona. The 2018 Mediterranean Currach Regatta promises to be a marvellous day of racing, craic agus ceol so we can promise that your efforts expended to get here will be richly rewarded. If you need advice on accommodation, transport around the city ( which is dead easy by the way!) or even getting here, please post a message on this page and we'll get back to you ASAP. There's lots of information available on the website including instructions on how to register your crew. Can't wait to meet you all on the day.'' http://stpatricksbarcelona.com/
This interesting exhibition on heritage in Cork Harbour opened last night in St. Peter's Cork - we loved it! Well done to Passage West Heritage Fest and all who were involved in getting it together. We heard a lovely little bit of news too as Passage will be getting its very own maritime museum this summer. At last!
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