Gandelow Rowing Teams from Limerick challenge Dublin again On the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd April 2014, Gandelow rowing teams from Limerick are launching another attack on Dublin by land, river and sea in their elegant Viking boats called Gandelows. They seem to do this sort of thing with a periodicity of a thousand years. The … Continue reading 12-02-14: Battle of Clontarf Millenium April 1014 – April 2014
12-02-14: Meet The CityOne Crew
An international and local team of boat builders and naval architects have assembled at the Ilen School, Roxboro, as part of the Limerick City of Culture 2014 celebrations. The school is well underway towards the rollout of its Limerick City of Culture Sport and Legacy Project, which involves the design and build of a new … Continue reading 12-02-14: Meet The CityOne Crew
13-01-14: Afloat.ie – New ‘City One’ Sailing Dinghy Design
#cityone – A new Irish sailing dinghy design, the LC1, is under construction in Limerick which promoters say will have a ‘lively performance but at the same time, the relatively broad beam and inherent stability should mean it is not difficult for the inexperienced. The City One Limerick Dinghy from the AK. Ilen Company is … Continue reading 13-01-14: Afloat.ie – New ‘City One’ Sailing Dinghy Design
15-11-14: Learn To Row
The Ilen Wooden School would like to involve the public in learning to row Limerick’s traditional boat – the Gandelow. Our free rowing Saturdays are available to all and offer the community a wonderful opportunity to engage directly with the river, within the city. The session will also serve as an opportunity for the public … Continue reading 15-11-14: Learn To Row
13-11-12: Limerick Gandelows Captured
The Limerick Gandelow is a beautiful, vague and floating thing, and a boat which is raced on the Shannon. The chase has begun to capture its essence and define its form. Leading British naval architect and yacht designer, Theo Rye, is lending his expertise and coming to Limerick on Wednesday 7th of November 2012, to … Continue reading 13-11-12: Limerick Gandelows Captured
17-05-12: Gandelow Races Perpetual Bell
The Ilen School and Network have commissioned a beautiful bronze bell for the Gandelow Races. The Bell was sculpted and cast by renowned sculptor Holger Christian Lonze. The Bell takes its inspiration from early Irish Celtic Sea Bells and is further modelled with wonderful following waves. Saturday next May 19th at 3pm, between the bridges … Continue reading 17-05-12: Gandelow Races Perpetual Bell
03-03-12: French team on exchange to the Ilen School
The ILEN School of Wooden Boat Building has welcomed this week a trainee ship’s carpenter from the Brittany boat building school, Ateliers de L’Enfer, based in Douarnenez. Julien Blondeau, who is part-French and part-Brazilian is nearing the end of his apprenticeship. He has already completed one exchange visit to a boat building project in Cornwall, … Continue reading 03-03-12: French team on exchange to the Ilen School