All of us who row in St Ayles Skiffs owe a quietly spoken Australian boat designer a big debt of gratitude. In 2008 the Scottish Fisheries Museum approached Iain Oughtred to design a boat for 4 rowers and a cox, to be made from a kit by Alec Jordan. Iain …
St Ayles Skiff International (SASI) are pleased to formally announce that the 2025 St Ayles Skiff World Championship has been awarded to Stranraer Water Sports Association and will be held during the following dates Sunday 6th until Saturday 12th July 2025. Stranraer Water Sports Association hosted SkiffieWorlds 2019 which was …
The day before kings-day in the Netherlands is traditionally the day on which people who have excelled in representing the community are being recognised by the king. Marc Beerends, the organiser of Skiffie Worlds 2022 has been awarded ‘Member of the order of Oranje-Nassau’ in a ceremony for his excellent …
After consultation with the NCAs SASI has updated the Building and Measurement Rules for 2023 in accordance with its aims stated earlier. Changes have been made to the sections Oars, Rudder and the Measurement by Officials. A method statement has been added to address the rudder surface area requirement in …
SASI has been evaluating SkiffieWorlds 2022 by taking comments received and has had consultations with its partners VMS and DARA to come to recommendations for future events. The major events were discussed at length and will be taken forward in making SkiffieWorlds 2025 the next succesful edition of our mutual …
Clubs and organisations are invited for an expression of interest to host SkiffieWorlds 2025. Host criteria for the 2025 St Ayles Skiff Wolrd Championships can be found through this Link Expressions of interest shall be submitted to the Secretary St Ayles Skiff International Limited by the end of August 2023. On …
Dundrum Coastal Rowing Club has for the 3rd time gained the top spot of St Ayles Skiff rowing in the World! The final results of SkiffieWorlds have been carefully calculated. Due to the close competition the best of 8 standings were chosen to come to a distinction between the top …
SASI measurement group has produced a annotated Building and Measurement Rules document to help participants anticipate the compliance check at SkiffieWorlds2022. In black are the 2021 rules which are currently in force and will be until after Skiffieworlds. In blue are notes which are not part of the rules but …
It is with great pleasure that SASI board can announce that SkiffieWorlds 2022 in Kortgene, the Netherlands will go ahead as planned. Covid restrictions are lifted in the Netherlands and travel is unrestricted albeit with proof of vaccination or recovery from Covid when coming from outside the EU/Schengen area. All …
Some confusion has arisen regarding registration for SkiffieWorlds 2022. The registration process has been confusing to some with an unfortunate closing of the registration at relatively short notice. As the overseeing and issuing organisation SASI has been working closely with the organisers DARA, the Dutch national association and VMS, the …
