RESULTS: Portrush Raft Race 2017

Compere Alan Simpson meets the raft crews.

Here are the results:

1, Ballyronan Bandits; 2, Blue Pandas; 3, Home to Portrush.

First all-female crew to finish: Mad Cows. Best fancy-dress/theme: Cool Raftings. Outstanding raft design: Paradise Island. Most originally-named raft: Trump’s Torpedo.

Furthest travelled team: Brig Argent (from Michigan, USA). Most money raised/presented on day: Houston Homes (£637.50). Most heroic failure: In Deep Ship.

PLACINGS:

1, Ballyronan Bandits; 2 Blue Pandas; 3 Home to Portrush; 4 Thunderport 1; 5 The Vow Rowers; 6 HMS Barrossa; 7 The Pied Piper; 8 Houston Homes A Team; 9 Thongs Flip Flops; 10 Marine Sheeben; 11 Jack One; 12 Brig Argent; 13 Rigid Articulated Floating Transporter; 14 Cool Runnings; 15 Roy Jackson; 16 Houston Homes Old Duffers; 17 Miller & McLoughlin Misfits; 18 50 Croquet Kings; 19 Slimmer Winners; 20 Ship Face; 21 Granny Annies; 22 45 Wet Nellie (RIP Roger); 23 Sea P R NI Ambulance Service; 24 The Ulster Gunners; 25 Bog Standard Barge; 26 Mill Stranded 1; 27 Sink or Swim; 28 31 Yellow Submarine; 29 Midweek Muppets; 30 Sea Donkey; 31 Cool Raftings; 32 Wee Doc and 6 Dewarfs; 33 Mad Cows; 34 34 8 Sea Sharp C#; 35 Table for Eakin; 36 Turtle 1; 37 Mill Stranded 2; 38 The Kawasaki Surfers; 39 Barrels-a-Buoy; 40 28 Walla Walla Bing Bang; 41 The Hashtags.

UNPLACED:

Built Like a Shiphouse; The Big Dippers; Portrush Atlantic Atlantic Hotel; 55 North Fletchers Bistro Ltd; HMS Fit for Nothing; In Deep Ship; Trump’s Torpedo; Merry Hinge; Paradise Island; SS River Ridge.

JUNIOR RAFT RACE:

1, Catherine Minford & Olivia Dunbar; 2 Maeve & Conor Brolly; 3 Rebekah Dunbar & Rebecca Lynn.

ROOKIE LIFEGUARD CHALLENGE

Ben Lyness

WEST BAY SWIM:

1st female Julie Murphy; 2nd female Caroline Boyle; 1st male Colm Watters; 2nd male Rowan McClean.