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Strangford Lough Regattas are run by the yacht clubs around Strangford Lough. Click the links below for further information on these clubs.

Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough is a large (150km²) shallow sea lough situated on the east coast of County Down, Northern Ireland. The Lough's northern tip is only about 6 km from the outskirts of Belfast. About a third of the Lough is intertidal - best seen from the huge expanses of sandflats exposed at the northern end at low tide and at high tide this area is covered in shallow water. The southern entrance to the Lough is a deep channel about 8km long, called the Narrows.. From Portaferry across the Narrows to Strangford is just 0.5km. The currents in between are extremely strong and fast - up to 8 knots (4m/s).

It is the function of the Strangford Lough Regatta Conference, on which all the yacht and sailing clubs of the Lough are represented, to co-ordinate, compile and publish a calendar of regattas and other events on Strangford Lough. We must emphasise that the Strangford Lough Regatta Conference has no responsibility whatsoever for the running of the regattas and other events, and that each yacht and sailing club has the sole responsibility for the running of its own regattas and events.

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This sea inlet emerged from under the melting ice-sheets of the Ice Age and is for the most part less than 10m in depth. There is a deeper Y-shaped channel (possibly an old river-valley or geological fault-line) up to 66 m deep which extends from the Narrows up the central portion of the Lough. The underlying rock is largely Silurian.

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