Cove Rowing
Whitehead, County Antrim
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Visit the club websiteAbout this club
Cove Rowing is a coastal rowing club serving Whitehead and Islandmagee in County Antrim. Its own website uses the name Cove Rowing and describes the group as the People's Republic of Rowing.
The club site was operating under Cove Rowing Ltd by 2018 and preserves galleries titled Our Rowers, The White Witch and December 11th 2018. No dependable foundation date or street address appears in the fetched public material.
Cove took part in Rowing Ireland's 2021 Road to Tokyo challenge, contributing more than 1.5 million metres. Club member Karen Hutchinson recorded 368,000 metres individually during the same initiative.
At the 2023 Bann Head of the River coastal event on the River Bann in Coleraine, Cove entered men's and women's junior under-18 quads, a women's masters double and a women's masters quad. Cove athletes also formed composite men's junior and masters crews with Olderfleet.
The 2024 Bann results include a Cove men's masters coastal quad. In 2025, a composite Cove and Cairndhu crew placed third at the Irish Masters Coastal Championships hosted by Olderfleet Rowing Club.
Cove remained represented in the Bann coastal programme in 2026, with junior men's and women's quads and masters doubles and quads recorded in the draw. These entries support a current programme spanning junior and masters coastal sculling.
Upcoming competitions hosted by Cove Rowing
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