League Race 2025

There is only a small and busy public car park that charges £10 a day, so we recommend you arrive early and car share wherever possible. If you are unable to car share then some free parking is available in Marian Glas and Moelfre, from where you can share a car to Traeth Bychan.

Upon arrival with boats please park in the central section of the car park (1).

Please bring your own dollys if possible and having unloaded the boats, unhook your trailers and store them in the trailer parking area (2).

Parking should now only cost £10 rather than £20 for a trailer and car.

Take each boat on its dolly to the launch area (3) and then kindly return the dolly to the car park in case someone else needs it. Otherwise, dollys need to be stored above the beach in the dolly storage area (4)

Following the final race, the tide will be coming in and will have taken up much of the beach already. Please take your boats up to the boat yard (6) or put them back on the road trailers in the car park, before going to have something to eat.

RULES for Râs cynghrair Moelfre

• Celtic Longboats all to be standard, unmodified as produced by Dale Sailing.
• All craft to be in a good seaworthy condition with checks on:
• Rowlocks
• Foot block straps
• A working pump
• Bailer on board and attached
• Painter of minimum two metre length
• Bung attached
• Hull and topside to be sound and no major damage
• Racing numbers clear. Minimum height 25 cm.

SHORE START

• Boats are lined up on the beach. They may be afloat. Rowers are ready to row.
• The boats when lined up must have two metres of space between extended oars.
• The cox must hold the boat in position and have one leg on the seabed. Crews may opt to:
  • have the cox in the boat and another crew member to hold the boat or
  • all crew in the boat and a shore helper to hold the boat.
• One minute prior to the start a flag is raised together with a sound signal.
• One minute later a second signal is sounded and the flag lowered to indicate the start.
• Or up to one minute later a second signal is made and the flag lowered to indicate the start.

WSRA Race Rules January 2018.V5 - with clarification from appendices!

• A lead boat flying a green flag must indicate the course. A change to a yellow flag indicates a change of course. A red flag indicates the race has been abandoned.
• Boats on opposite courses pass port to port.
• A boat overtaking another boat keeps clear.
• Overtaking boat is a boat which comes from astern to pass. It becomes the overtaking boat as soon as its bow overlaps the slower boat.
• It continues to be the overtaking boat until it is clear ahead by at least two metres.
• At a mark of the course which is required to be rounded or passed on a specific side, the boat on the inside closest to the mark has right of way over the outside boat(s) if when its bow enters a three lengths circle it has an overlap on the outside boat(s).
• When boats overlap approaching an obstruction that can only be passed on one side, the boats on the outside must allow room for the ones closest to the obstruction to pass.
• When approaching a narrow channel that has an obstruction or restriction on both sides the leading boat has right of way.
• A right of way boat must not alter course without good reason when a give way boat is keeping clear.
• Keep clear means at least one and a half metres between the oars in calm conditions.
• In beam winds and rough water more space is required.

Specific course rules

• Keep at least 5m from land when racing.
• Keep well clear of fishing lines and other water users.
• No overtaking in the sound between Ynys Moelfre and the headland.