Cluaran Heritage Project
The international racing event called Skiffieworlds started on Saturday. An expeditionary party of cluaran connected people were there to see the opening ceremony.
https://stranraerwatersports.com/skiffieworlds2025/welcome-stranraer-skiffieworlds-2025
With boats from the D&G coastline, accross Scotland Ireland, England, the Netherlands, the USA, and Austrailia it was properly international. One day, perhaps, there will be a Dumfries boat there too!
I’m in the workshop today doing some Cluaran maintenance in preparation for a row this evening.
While I’m doing that I’m thinking about this years Nithraid. Nithraid is a festival which helps people reconnect and reimagine their relationship with the river Nith.
A few years ago I made a video about toy boat building using household materials. Instead of flushing plastic away and forgetting about it, it can be re-imagined as a valuable resource. There are projects around the world doing this on a large scale. On a small scale, we could make the components needed to turn used containers into components for toy boats.
If you are interested, please get in touch!
We may be able to contribute to this years on the green Nithraid activities (24th of August).
Of course, if you would like to row get in touch too! We are practicing on the Nith (including this evening – the 3rd of July)