Results

We were blessed with some glorious sunshine this year. Well done to everyone who took part, and a big thank you to all participants and volunteers for making the event great!

Congratulations to everyone involved!

To see the photos and comments from everyone who took part please go to: https://www.facebook.com/5milesfromhomechallenge

Give yourselves a well-deserved pat on the back. You conquered wind, rain and raced to the finish of An Rás Mór! Thanks to all participants for taking part.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

To see the photos and comments from everyone who took part please go to: https://www.facebook.com/5milesfromhomechallenge

Overall Times – Five Miles From Home Series 2021

The Overall Times are based on your best two results from the Series. This means that those who needed to change their entry during a lockdown, will still be included in the Overall Times.

It is our pleasure to acknowledge the achievement of certain crews and participants in particular and we invite you to watch our Special Awards 2021 video below. Those mentioned in the video will receive a Special Awards Certificate recognising their accomplishment.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Welsh Sea Rowing – Five Miles From Home, 9-11 July 2021

As you know, the premier award for each leg in the Five Miles From Home Series is the MEDIAN TROPHY. Having combined all times across the four categories, we are delighted to announce that the perpetual Median Trophy is awarded to ‘Broughty Youth’’ from the Broughty Ferry Boating RTYC club in Broughty Ferry near Dundee, Scotland.

Full results message from Welsh Sea Rowing: https://www.searowing.wales/2021/07/11/fivemilesfromhome-wsr-leg-the-results/

Ocean to City – Five Miles From Home Results, 4-6 June 2021 

On behalf of the Ocean to City team and Board of Meitheal Mara – a huge thank you and congratulations to all of this year’s Ocean to City #5milesfromhome participants! It’s been an absolute pleasure to see all your photos and stories come in from across four continents this weekend. Thank you for embracing the #5milesfromhome challenge and for coming together as one big community that simply loves to be on the water.

The provisional timed results can be found below. A big round of applause to everyone!

As you know, the premier award for each leg in the Five Miles From Home Series is the MEDIAN TROPHY. Having combined all times across the four categories, we are delighted to announce that the perpetual Median Trophy is awarded to ‘’5 Mile Crew’’ from the Living Boat Trust in Southern Tasmania, Australia.
This crew finished with their St Ayles Skiff ‘Imagine’ right in the middle of the Ocean to City fleet, and may accept this trophy as representatives of the whole fleet ❤  Lorrie Harrison, Natalie Williams, Mandy Whyatt, Cheryl Gallienne, Bearta Parry are a group of friends that formed a crew to row for the last Castle to Crane, and enjoyed it so much that they kept rowing together. What a wonderful story!

There were so many special entries this year that the Ocean to City team will reconvene Monday 7 June to discuss special titles and designations for the 2nd leg. We will announce these on #WorldOceansDay – Tuesday 8th June. If you’d like to have a look at how your fellow participants got on – head on over to our Facebook page where we’ve tried to post up as many entries as we could.

Also, the unique Ocean to City – Five Miles From Home t-shirts are still available for purchase until mid next week. The €20 price includes national/international postage. Order yours here.

Finally, go raibh maith agat to the Castle to Crane team for inviting us on board this lovely series, and to Welsh Sea Rowing for joining in and organising the 3rd leg in July. We can’t wait!
And if you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so here.

Warm regards

Joya & all at Ocean to City.

Castle to Crane – Five Miles From Home, 7-9 May 2021

A huge thanks to everyone who took part in our Virtual Challenge! We loved marking Ocean to City day with you and look forward to having you with us (in Cork!) next year.

Boat of the Day: #24 with ‘Bibio’

Bibio comes to the Ocean to City Row from Lake Windermere.  She is a beautiful little old lady and we wonder which is the older Peter Corless the cox  or Bibio.  We only know that each are between 80 and a hundred years old and that each  are immune to he ravages of age.  Maybe this is because of a healthy indifference to anything not fishing nor craic.

Boat Builder of the Day: #41 by ‘Kromhout’

Two Kromhout whalers came from the Netherlands – beautiful proportions and built strong but light – with crew to match!

Community Boat Build: #31 with ‘Fiach Dubh’

It is not on record how many measurements Frank O’Neill took and  how many pots of tea the men’s Shed in Cross’s Green put into the construction of Fiach Dubh.  She  is a fine two hand currach and this is the first of many O2C outings for her we hope.

Self Build Boat Award:  #91, with ‘Spoiradna Saoirse’

With determination and scorn for the pressures of single parenthood Elaine Moynihan built a genuine Dunfanaghy  currach with help from her sisters, and rowed it with three up on the Monkstown Course. Spoiradna Saoirse – Spirit of freedom is giving the finger to adversity!

2018 Timings |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór
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Boat Times -Rowing and Dragon Boats

2018 Timings |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór
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Kayak Times

2018 Timings |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór
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SUP Times 

2018 Timings |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór
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Youth Race Times – Blackrock

2017 Boat Results |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór | Sheltered River Course

With the change of course we were not be able to start the race on the usual handicap basis. We therefore present prizes as follows: (a) within Boat Type Classes (b) within Age & Gender classes within the same Boat Types (c) Special Awards (d) Fun Awards.

2017 Kayak & SUP Results |Ocean to City – An Rás Mór | Sheltered River Course

Special Awards 2017

• Meitheal Mara Challenge: #97 Life Centre, Doras Dearg
• Boat of the Day – Charlie Hennessy Cup: #92 Lily, Flesk Valley RC
• Boat Builder of the Day: #46 Martin Murphy
• Cian Ó Sé Memorial Trophy: #17 NC Workshop Crew, An Báid Nua
• Community Boat Build Prize: #28 St Michael’s RC Men’s Crew
• Special Endeavour Award: # 108 Blackrock RC Junior Crew
• Never Again Prize: #16 Rose Magner
• Best Humour Prize: #382 James ”The Clown” Twomey
• Most Unconventional Route Prize: #68 Mad Dogs on Tour

BOAT OF THE DAY TRINITY TIDE, a Thames Waterman Cutter, twice winner of the Great River Race, captained by Joe Lane of Trinity House, originally from Cork. Trinity Tide and her skipper have taken part in all 12 Ocean to City races since the first race in 2005. BOAT-BUILDER OF THE DAY The builder of the East Coast Skiff AN GABHAR, with an all-female crew from Skerries, is Martin O’Toole. The standard of build of these beautiful clinker boats, with straight stem and stern, has been consistently high during the history of the Ocean to City Race. INNOVATIVE DESIGN PRIZE Aerolite Whitehall Type rowing boat, Hal Sisk. An innovative design and build commissioned by serial boat restorer and rescuer, Hal Sisk. Taken from the lines of his father’s punt built by Pierce Power in Passage West in the 1940s it has a see-through fabric skin and an exquisite wooden minimalist structure. It also rows quite well. The builder is from Tasmania. COMMUNITY-BUILD PRIZE NAMA, rowed by Ger and Niall Crowley from RARI Rowing Club, Bray, is one of 5 similar boats (2 at Ocean to City) built with two local youth clubs. Ger and crew members rowed this tiny boat all the way round Ireland in 2015 and raised €150,000 plus for Cystic Fibrosis charities. SELF-BUILT BOAT PRIZE JEAN, a new take on the skin-boat (painted polyester fabric on cedar frame) was built over the Winter by Anthony Keating from Crosshaven and rowed by him and his son John in the Ocean to City Race. The boat is designed by Dave Gentry, USA,and has siding seats for rowing.