Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta Rowing
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta rowing is at the absolute core of our Royal Regatta. The first recorded Regatta held on the River Dart at Dartmouth in 1822 was noted to include a rowing race for six-oared gigs ‘for which Dartmouth is very famous’ – according to the Exeter Flying Post. Rowing was then and still is, fiercely competitive and the highlight of the calendar for many visitors and locals.
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Our Royal Regatta has become a ‘Mecca’ for rowing enthusiasts with its wide variety of rowing. Whaler and blue boats provide the attraction for local participants; fine boat rowing attracts crews from the south west and along the south coast to the final regatta of the West of England ARA ten regatta championship series; pilot gig rowing attracts the Cornish gig fraternity; FISA Coastal Rowing introduced into the Regatta in 2021 provides courses of 8 and 6 kilometres out to sea and back for clubs of the Southwest Coastal Rowing League; and initiated last year there is a programme of Seine Boat rowing.
