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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.

The Highland Games and Coble Boat Race committee will hold their annual general meeting on 20th October at 7 pm in the Tayside Institute. Anyone from Newburgh and the surrounding area is welcome to attend. New ideas, comments on this years events and links with other related organisations are all welcome. The AGM is also the time to establish a new committee to plan and organise next years events so any volunteers for this task are particularly welcomed.

The men’s final was won by Gavin and Graham Marshall. The women’s race was won by Jenna Marshall and Kayleigh Watters. The under 18’s event was won by Scott Loosemore and Callum Smart. See the Gallery page for pictures of this year’s race and the winners and the presentation of the prizes.

The Coble Boat Race and Heritage day was a huge success with a particularly large crowd of spectators this year. This included many visitors from outwith the town. There was a Canadian man visiting who enjoyed the event so much that he took part in the men’s race. The committee now have a list of people interested in forming a Newburgh Rowing Club so we’ll discuss how to take this forwards, along with plan’s for next year’s events, at our next meeting. Anyone wanting to help out or contribute new ideas please contact the committee.

Robertson’s Quay and the salmon fishing net green are all set up for the day’s entertainment with music, food, beer tent and lots of trade stands. The Reaper set off from Anstruther as planned yesterday afternoon but the engine failed when it was 2 miles out to sea. The boat drifted for half an hour before being towed back to Anstruther. An engineer from Rosyth spent a few hours trying to make repairs btu without success. The Reaper will be towed to Arbroath next week for the repairs.

Despite that disappointment, the rest of the day’s events are still running as planned with the main event, the Newburgh Coble Boat Race starting sometime between 4 and 5pm. Anyone still wanting to row in this years race should register at the committee tent, just opposite the slipway, by 4pm at the latest.

The ‘Reaper’ will sail from Anstruther on the afternoon of the 13th, arriving to dock at Robertson’s Pier at approximately 6pm. All the tickets are now sold out for the boat trip to accompany the ‘Reaper’ but there will be plenty of opportunities for boat trips the next day.

Visitors to Newburgh for the Coble Boat Race and Heritage Day can park at the top of the public park (Tayside Park). Other parking is available at West Shore Road which is the better choice for wheelchair users. Programes for the days events will be on sale for £1.

There will be various stands for entertainments and local organisations. Refreshments are available at our ‘beer tent’ and ‘food tent’.

One of the aims of the day is to secure the future of this unique Coble Boat Race, so please look out for the games committee tent where you can register you interest in forming a Newburgh Rowing club.

The Newburgh ‘Coble Boat Race & Heritage Day’ will take place on the waterfront on 14/08/2010. The programme will start at approximately 2pm with music and stalls, many of which will feature local groups and business. There will be sailing demonstrations, the ‘reaper’ boat museum, a flying display, country dancing and of course the single handed boat race itself. The race will start at approximately 5pm. More details to follow

The first four sets of pictures from the 2010 Newburgh Highland Games are now in the Gallery. There will be more to come over the next few weeks. If anyone who was at this years games has a picture they’d like to see posted up in the Gallery please use the contacts page to send it to the committee.

The next big event will be the Newburgh Coble Boat Race and Heritage day on the 14th of August. All local groups, businesses and anyone else with ideas to contribute to this new event are invited to the planning meeting at the Tayside Institute on Wednesday the 23rd of June at 7pm

The 2010 Highland Games were opened by this years Chieftan, Susan Mitchell. The weather was excellent, attracting even more spectators than last year. We welcomed visitors from the USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland, both as spectators and as competitors. There were 10 pipers taking part in this years Solo Piping and we were pleased to have seven competitors in the heavyweight field events. The athletics and cycling were also of the usual high standard making for exciting watching for the crowd.

The only low point of the games was an accident during the cycling with L. Oliphant being injured. The committee wish him a speedy recovery.

The games committee wish to thank everyone who helped to make this year’s Highland Games such a success.