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The Newburgh Highland Games & Coble Boat Race committee is holding its annual general meeting on 08/02/12 at 7pm at the Tayside Institute in Newburgh. The meeting is open to the public and the committee is always keen to welcome new members. If you’re interested in these important local events and want to find out what is planned for 2012, or want to contribute to the coming year’s events, then please come along.

A very large crowd watched Gavin & Graeme win the 2011 senior Coble Boat Race. In the registration tent there was an old photo of their great grandfather in the same event in 1935! The women’s race was won by Kayleigh Waters and Jenna Marshall (also a great grandchild of the man in the 1935 photo!). Leigh Johnston (another of this same man’s  great grandchildren!!) came in second, rowing with Jane Whitefield.  The youth’s race was won by Ryan Brown and Steven Simpson. The Sandy Moncreiff memorial trophy was presented to David Muir and Gary Davidson in recognition of them competing in the Newburgh Coble Boat race for many years.  The  full results will be posted up here soon.

The Coble Boat Race and Heritage day was again a great success, attracting an estimated 1000 spectators over the course of the day. The ‘Reaper’, an old herring fishing boat, was moored off the pier and proved to be a popular attraction. The day’s events finished with ‘the bear’ being lit which is always a spectacular sight.

The traditional Newburgh Coble Boat Race on the River Tay will be held on the 13th of August 2011 as part of the heritage day celebrations. Further details can be found at http://www.smartcommunityfife.org.uk/news/article/newburgh-celebrates-its-heritage. There will local food stalls, various activities for children and a new event, a hill race over ‘the bear hill’ (Lindores Hill). The Reaper, an old herring fishing boat, will sail round from Antruther and will open to the public. There will be boat trips on the river as well as the chance for experienced rowers to take part in the double handed Coble Boat Race. The event will officially open at 2pm. There is no entry charge but a donation will be welcomed to help cover costs.

The Newburgh Games Committee met at Robbie’s Park at 7.30 and reluctantly decided to cancel the games today due to the ongoing bad weather. We think it is unlikely that we’ll get enough spectators to make the games viable today. We’re actively looking for another date for this year’s event and will post that up here as soon as a date is agreed.

The Newburgh Games committee have just had a meeting at the games park to discuss whether tomorrow’s games should go ahead or not. The weather forecast is not looking good but sometimes the weather fronts move over faster than expected and Newburgh does have its own distinct ‘micro-climate’. We’re meeting again early tomorrow morning to decide if  the games go ahead or are cancelled. Please check this web site before setting off for Newburgh. We aim to have our decision posted up here by 8am on the 18th.

The 2011 Newburgh Highland Games will be in Robbie’s Park (opposite Scotland Terrace) on Saturday the 18th of June. The park opens to the public at 12 noon with the games officially opening at 1pm. This year we are having additional events including a ‘Hill Race’ and traditional Highland Games field events especially designed for children and young people. There will be the usual field and track events, races for local children, the piping competition and the highland dancing. There will be various food and entertainment stalls and the popular ‘beer tent’.

Entry to the park costs £4 for an adult, £2 for a child and a family ticket for 2 adults and two children costs £10. Parking is available nest to the games park for just £1.

The coffee morning at the Tayside Institute on 23/04/11 is to raise funds to support the Newburgh Highland Games. The doors open at 10am and there will be all the usual stalls and raffle.

The Coble Boat Race and Heritage Day event, planned for 13/08/2011, recieved a boost of £855 to the funds, thanks to a successful coffee morning. The Newburgh coffee mornings on a Saturday at the Tayside Institute are a regular feature of the Newburgh social calender. They are very well supported and over the years have raised large amounts of money for local groups and various charities. Please have a look at the gallery page for some photographs of this coffee morning.

The coffee morning at the Tayside Institute in Newburgh on Saturday the 29th of January is raising money to help towards the costs of this year’s coble boat race and heritage day. The coffee morning will open at 10am with all the usual stalls. Any donations welcome.

A meeting to discuss this year’s Coble Boat Race and Heritage Day will be held at the Tayside Institute on the 17th January at 7pm. Anyone hoping to be involved in the event is welcome to come along. The organising committee is  particularly interested to hear from local trades and businesses which might want to have a stall at the event and from anyone else with new ideas to help build on last year’s success.