What a fantastic afternoon of fun, laughter and huge amounts of community spirit at our 2024 Raft Race!.
Wonderful support from Coxswain Patch Harvey and the team at Penlee Lifeboat Station. What would we do without them!"
The Harbour Lights Team
What a full-on community event it was too!
Plenty of raft race fans headed along the prom for the...
start of the 2024 Newlyn Raft Race...
all the money raised goes towards the upkeep of the harbour Christmas lights...
the first casualty to seconds to sink...
with the inshore lifeboat in close attendance...
local artist Jeremy Saunders had a fun afternoon and captured the scene in oils as a fundraiser for @newlynharbourlights...
turning at the marker the leading rafts head for the beach and the winning line...
while the boys on the Penlee lifeboat do what they are there fore, giving the rafts a good soaking as they pass...
there was massive competition between HMS Conor, the winners of last years raft race, crewed by six very fit Fireman Sam’s from Heamoor Community Interest Organisation, and the Cowboys & Indians from Penzance Community Fire Station…it was a close run thing with HMS Conor taking the honours again...
for the women's teams, the Meadery Maids led the way - again!..
here's one that didn't sink...
the Sparkellez Dance Company making slow progress...
Trewidden Tea Room with their prehistoric power up front made good progress...
good to see the Mousehole harbourmaster keeping an eye on things from the Cormorant...
the Mackerel Sky dinosaurs desperately trying to catch
just one thing for it, jump in and get to the finish line any way you can...
riding on the crest of a wave...
it's all over bar the shouting so it's time for the lifeboats to head back to port.
