Seine Boat Tradition: Fishing and Racing in Kerry Since the 1700s | Season 4 – Episode 76 скачать в хорошем качестве

Seine Boat Tradition: Fishing and Racing in Kerry Since the 1700s | Season 4 – Episode 76

👋 Hey followers! In this video, we are featuring the "Seine" rowboat, used for fishing and racing off the coast of County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland since the 17th century. We are Ireland Made® the Irish transport archive. Our mission is to collect and preserve stories of Irish transport past and present for the benefit of our future generations. If it has wings, wheels or it floats and there is an Irish connection, you will find the story here. ++++ For just €2 per month you can support our content creation and help preserve Irish transport heritage. Just click on the big red "SUBSCRIBE" button on www.irelandmade.ie . Two new videos each week, ++++ ⬇️ Have you ever taken part in Seine racing? Comment below ⬇️ Traditionally manned by twelve oarsman and a Captain, the Seine boat worked a seine net alongside a smaller vessel called the "follower" for fishing off the Iveragh Peninsula. Coastal rowing regattas have been a long-standing tradition in Kerry's coastal communities, with races dating back to the 1800s and continuing to this day. +++ Every week we produce two video stories on Irish transport past and present and work to preserve Irish transport heritage. Please show your support for our work with a €2 monthly subscription (less than the price of a cup of coffee) via www.irelandmade.ie +++ CARVEL BUILT Since the early 17th century, increasing numbers of carvel-built rowing boats fished the abundant pilchard shoals off Ireland’s southwest coast. Working in pairs, these boats used highly effective seine nets—large surrounding nets that hang vertically in the water, weighted at the bottom and buoyed at the top—to trap thousands of pilchards at a time. Carvel-built rowing boats are constructed where planks are fastened edge-to-edge to a sturdy internal wooden frame, creating a smooth, seamless outer surface. This design contrasts with the overlapping planks of clinker-built boats. Carvel-built rowing boats have a streamlined hull, reducing water resistance and improving speed and manoeuvrability in the water. This technique allows the boats to be larger and sturdier, making them suitable for fishing or racing. SEASONAL FISHING From spring to autumn, hundreds of seine boats, each accompanied by a smaller boat called "the follower," operated out of the coves and creeks of the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry and parts of west Cork. The boats ranged from 25 to 34 feet in length, with a maximum beam of 7 feet. Powered by up to twelve oarsmen using double-banked oars, they also carried a coxswain or "Captain," and sometimes a "Hewer" or fish spotter seated at the bow. The smaller follower boat had up to six oarsmen and a coxswain. REGATTA RACING Seine boat racing at summer regattas in south Kerry has been a tradition since the 19th century and continues to thrive in the South-Mid Kerry region today. Success in fishing relies on the crew's ability to maintain speed at sea, directed by their Captain. Racing emerged naturally from this rowing style, with frequent challenges between boats from neighbouring villages later developing into full regattas. In the 1960s when Seine racing was at its peak, rowers and cheering spectators from County Kerry were familiar with boats such as 'The Airborne', 'The Bluebird', 'The Brothers Hope', 'The Lady Butler', 'The Rainbow', 'The Shamrock', 'The Sidhe Gaoithe', 'The Up Kerry', and The 'Assumpta' of Cnuicin'. ROWING STYLES The tradition of using double-banked oars, where two rowers pull on a single long, heavy oar, has been preserved since the early 17th century and continues to this day. Each oar of a Seine boat is pulled by two oars men/women in each boat pulling six oars, three oars to the port and starboard sides of the boat. The crew is completed by a thirteenth person who is the coxswain (Captain) of the boat and crew. SEINE BOAT BUILDERS In August 2021 Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD announced the inclusion of traditional Seine boat building, fishing and racing in the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, so there may yet be a revival for the Seine boat. If you have an idea for a story, email Kevin Reid info@irelandmade.ie Sources of information, video and photo credits: Coastal Rowing Ireland Donal O’Connell Family History by Mary Ellen Irish Coastal Rowing Federation Irish Independant Michael Fenton quote: Kerry Folklore – The Boat Builders National Library of Ireland Portmagee Tripple Distilled Irish Whiskey Roaring Water Journal #irelandmade #ad #irelandmadestoriesofirishtransport #seineboats #irishcostalrowingfederation #rowingregatta #coastalrowing #countykerry #tradtionalboatbuilding #wildatlantic ++++++++++ This video post is copyrighted© to Ireland Made® not to be copied or reproduced without permission.