New boats for Cork’s Shandon Boat Club

One of the country’s oldest rowing clubs is in ship-shape after launching its largest number of racing boats following a remarkable rebirth.

The 138-year-old Shandon Boat Club, based on Cork’s Marina, made club history at the weekend when it put eight new state-of-the-art Wintech racing boats — worth a combined total of some €90,000 — on the water.

Shandon Boat Club secretary Frank Coghlan said it is the largest number of boats the club has ever launched at one time.