In Belfast, Year-Round Racers Pull Together in 17th-Century-Style Wooden Vessels

In Belfast, Year-Round Racers Pull Together in 17th-Century-Style Wooden Vessels

By Jesse EllisonPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our March 2025 issue On a bright, blustery afternoon last spring, six women rowers gathered next to a shingled equipment shed on Belfast Harbor and began putting on sweatbands and slim, inflatable life jackets. They talked and laughed with the easy, jocular cadence of a group that had been practicing together three times a week for the past 10 months. But once the members had lowered themselves into t…