- Date
- 2025-09-04
- Kind
- Celebration
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagecommunitysportsshipping
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Irish Currach Club launched and christened two locally built currachs on Thursday, 4 September 2025, shortly before the Emerald Isle Irish Féile. The club’s published account names the boats Robert Jewell and Amy Langford and says members of the Milwaukee Currach Club returned for the launch.1
Evidence limits
The sole held account is a club-centered newspaper article. It establishes the reported launch and names but is not a boat registry, independent construction survey, or full event record. The article does not give a precise geographic coordinate for the launch.
Open questions
- Do launch photographs, vessel records, or club logs establish construction specifications and subsequent ownership or operations?
- What arrangement governed use of the St. James Township Marina North pole barn?
See also
Footnotes
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Kathleen “Kitty” McNamara, Northern Islander, October 2025. ↩
Sources
- Kathleen “Kitty” McNamara, “Irish Currach Club of Beaver Island Launches Two Rowing Boats,” Northern Islander, October 2025.Detailed club account says two locally built currachs were launched and christened on Thursday, 4 September 2025, with returning Milwaukee Currach Club members present. It names the boats Robert Jewell and Amy Langford and describes the preparation as part of the Féile period. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Irish Currach Club two-boat launch, 2025”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-irish-currach-club-boat-launch-2025/, accessed [date], citing Kathleen “Kitty” McNamara, “Irish Currach Club of Beaver Island Launches Two Rowing Boats,” Northern Islander, October 2025..
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