Late Night Boating

Gorge Walk (Cloughleagh)

Rowing Training

Rowing training has started at Ringsend (every Tuesday night at 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated) and, in addition to Sea Scout events, we plan to enter crews in a number of club regattas this year starting with the Stella Maris Regatta in Ringsend on Sunday, 24 May. So far 26 scouts have registered for crews and competition for places will be keen.

This year, in addition to training in the skiffs, we will also be using our Cork boat which is a faster boat and will require our crews to use locked oars and adapt to 'feathering' oars.

All in all, an interesting rowing season is in prospect.

Launch of new Stella Maris skiff

Easter Camp 2009

By now, Easter Camp in Powerscourt is a well established Troop tradition. 39 Scouts took part this year's Camp and for 11 of them it was their first time under canvas. in spite of a very cold Friday night, the weather over the weekend was very good, with the rain having the good grace to hold off until we were literally driving out of Powerscourt for another year.

Congratulations to all the Watch Leaders and Assistant Watch Leaders who ensured their scouts had a thoroughly enjoyable camping experience.

The standard of camping was very good and Port Watch were judged to be the overall winners of the Easter Camp Trophy.

Overnight (Curtlestown to Laragh)

Watch Leaders' Training Course

It hardly seems like its been over three years since our last Watch Leaders' Course so we checked the calendar and, sure enough, the last course was in November 2005. So, having comandeered 2 barges, the Shannon-Erne Waterway from Ballinamaore to Keshkerrigan again provided the backdrop to the weekend and provided both Watch Leaders and Section Leaders with a rare opportunity to get away from the 'everyday' running of the Troop and free up some time to focus on leadership skills and techniques.

Many, many thanks to Sean and Fionnuala O Seaghdha for providing us with the use of their house, for assisting with training workshops, for catering for the Gala Dinner and for generally driving all over County Leitrim to ensure the course ran smoothly and successfully.