Our club is pulling together to achieve the extraordinary, to row to and from the Isle of Man in a single day, in a bid to raise funds to enable us to continue to

Make rowing accessible to more people in our local community
Support training and safety equipment
Maintain and improve our boats
Upkeep and maintenance of our boatshed

This amazing feat, rowing over fifty miles in open sea, will involve a squad of volunteers and rowers training hard over the next few weeks.

Help us by accessing our GoFundMe page and keep an eye on progress in our Events page here, and on our Facebook page

Full details of the event can be found on our events page.

We are delighted to have the support of the UK Government to bring a community boatshed to the Isle. DEFRA’s UK Seafood Recreational Sea Fishing Infrastructure Round 4 funding of £100,000 is an incredible boost to our drive to reach just shy of £700,000 to meet the ever increasing costs of building our shed.

We hope the shed will provide a great space from which to organise local fishing competitions, and provide the perfect place for local leisure anglers to complete minor repairs to their craft under cover. Thankyou to Dougie, Darren, James and Barry for providing us with photos that show just how amazing the fishing is in our waters.

Our Buy a Brick campaign is really important to us, to enable people to commemorate a loved one, or promote for ever a charitable cause by buying space on the inside or the outside of your boatshed. Every penny raised counts! Have a look at our new Community Boatshed page to be kept up to date with progress.

DEFRA announced the funding award on 17th October 2023.

The UK Government press release announced more than £3.2 million funding from the UK Seafood Fund to three Scottish projects.

The projects were:

Scottish White Fish Producers Association – Scottish seafood centre of excellence (Fraserburgh). £3m. To create a high-quality industry facility with purpose-built classrooms, areas for technical training, and technology demonstration spaces. It will support blended training delivery (online and in-person) resulting in trainees located around the country to be connected to the centre.

University of the Highlands and Islands (Shetland) – upgrade the maritime bridge simulator at the institution’s Scalloway campus. £138,411.00. To facilitate onboard training for entrants and experienced seafarers in a safe environment, improving the efficiency and sustainability of key maritime industries.

Wigtown Bay Coastal Rowing Club (Isle of Whithorn) – to build a boatshed. £100,000. For leisure anglers to maintain and repair craft, as well as provide access to showers, toilets, and changing facilities. The space will also be used to carry out boat building and store sub aqua and coastal rowing kit

We are so proud of our team. Hamish, Jacqueline, John, Becki, Elaine and Athena have been training for months to be fit enough to take part in Monster the Loch on Saturday 23rd September 2023. They travelled up to Loch Ness with Breagha on Friday, supported by Allison and Joselyn, and brought back medals and T shirts on Sunday after completing the 21 mile event. Fantastic work!!!!

We have a limited number of Ts remaining, in sizes Small to Extra Large.

Let’s Go Gold this Autumn!

Buy a T, visit your favourite haunts and take selfies. Post your selfies on our Facebook page, or send them to us.

Let’s raise awareness of Sarcoma UK across the country!

We can post your Ts to you. You can pay us directly.

Contact us via wigtownbaycoastalrowing@gmail.com or messenger to order.

We’re planning our launch for Spring 2021, before the rescheduled RowAround 2021. Keep focussed on our pages for news as to the exact date, but you know it will be at the Isle of Whithorn and everyone will be welcome.

Like everyone this year we have been affected by the regulations seeking to limit the spread and impact of Covid19. Our members and friends are incredibly important to us.

We planned to be involved in RowAround 2020 in April 2020, with Annan harbour Action Group, Hippo Coastal Rowing Club and Stranraer Coastal Rowing Club. We hoped to get Breagha on the water in May, holding a launch party, and then hosting our first Regatta in July 2020.

All of that was put on hold.

We closed from late March to July 2020 and re-opened with strict guidelines following the GovScot and Sports Scotland guidelines. Breagha is nearly finished. 2021 will be a really exciting year for us.

We held our first meeting, online. Online meetings can exclude some people from taking part, but with the Covid restrictions we were a bit stuck. Having the meeting online enabled one member, trapped in Ghana, to take part, and we managed to be quorate. We contacted all members before the meeting with the agenda, appended papers, and asked for views and comments. Those views were shared within the meeting. We agreed our membership fees for 2020-21, and also that they should be pro-rata calculated from when we can actually get together properly and row. Copies of the minutes were sent to all registered members.