Roundstone Regatta
Roundstone Regatta has been taken place for over 200 years and features Galway Hooker and Currach racing.
Galway Hooker
A traditional sailing vessel of Galway Bay, the hooker (húicéir in Irish) has a single mast with a mainsail and two foresails. It is customarily an all black vessel (from its covering of pitch) with distinctive rust-red sails.
Currach
The currach (also curach or curragh) is a flat-bottomed, keel-less Irish boat used mainly for fishing and transporting livestock in the West of Ireland.
The highly manoeuvrable currach is usually rowed with bladeless oars held in place by wooden tholepins, but some can be fitted with a mast and small lug sail.
In between the currach races I took a few shots of Roundstone from the pier.