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1 Unseaworthy
2 Dark 'Sea' Horses
3 Menai Bridge Rugby Club
4 Air Cadets 1465
5 Ar y Fenail Di
6 Treborth Sea Horses
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8 Groundhogs
9 Works Dream Team
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11 Windy Millers
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14 murphy Magic 4
15 D Hughes Welding
16 Seiriol Killers
17 Y Gwch Glad
18 Naughty Lass
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20 Mary Miggins
21 Royal Bank of Scotland
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23 TK Electrical
24 menai Bridge Cricket club
25 Team Arriva
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27 Mike the Stag
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29 Bangor RFC
30 The Blossoms
31 Conway Crew
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33 The Elite Conway Warriors
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35 Prestwood Crew
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 The
Great Strait Raft Run 2009
As teams apply to enter the raft race they will be added to this
page. This page is being updated, please view the website soon
The Great Menai Strait Raft Run has
only recently been resurrected with the first of the new raft races
taking place in 2002, over 20 years since the inaugural event.
Committee chairman Scottie McLeod explained the history: "In 2001,
locals at the Mostyn Arms in Menai Bridge approached the Bangor and
District Round Table, with a view of re-establishing The Great Menai
Strait Raft Run. After consultation with the Caernarfon and District
Round Table, it was agreed the run would be resurrected in June 2002.
Until this year it was hosted as a joint venture between Bangor and
Caernarfon Round Tables. Now it is run soley by Menai Bridge residents.
While this was being discussed, the late Bill Hughes, head of the Menai
Centre, suggested it would be more of a feat to raft from Y Felinheli
through to Menai Bridge".
From the original outset in the 1980's,
the raft run was to be a fundraising event, with the original concept
being to find sponsorship for one raft to paddle or sail from Porth
Penrhyn across the Menai Strait and back.
The first raft race was held on a warm Whitsun Bank Holiday in the early
1980's when 27 rafts turned up to the start, as did the Coastgruards,
Beaumaris lifeboat, St. John's Ambulance, Radio Cumru, HTV and thousands
of spectators.
All rafts succeeded in completing the run raising £13,000 for a variety
of causes. Each year the run got bigger; becoming the largest charity
fundraising event in North Wales, raising over £100,000 in the first
four years. The Bangor Lions took over running th reace, and having
peaked with 50 entrants, the numbers began to wane with the Lions
eventually dropping the race in the late 1980's.Anglesey
attractions and events in North Wales.
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