Club History

In 2011 we celebrated our 30th anniversary.

All those years ago a group of  local people led by the late Joe Teeling got together to reintroduce boating to East Wall. Many years before there had been a sailing club in East Wall. This was at the slipway where the Wharf Tavern (Now the Seabank House) now stands. Hence the name Wharf Sailing club.

It was decided that the club be a multiactivity club including kayaking, sailing, swimming etc.and so it was decided to call ourselves the East Wall Water Sports Group to include all sub clubs, groups and activities.

The first item on the agenda was to organise a cleanup of the Tolka river in the Area where we intended to operate our club activities. Armed wth shovels, barrows, plenty of voluunteers and a lot of enthusism, the new committee got to work and before long we had ourselves a slipway,parking area, and two containers.

Running alongside the building and cleaning operation, our members were also busy relearning the skills of boat building long forgotten in the area. We rented space at the rear of the boys school on St Mary's Road (now the Sea O'Casey Community Centre) and got to work building what was to be the first of many boats big and small.

Despite being novices ourselves we were lucky to be able to call on the skills of local shipwrights Patsy Whelan Snr and Paddy Carroll sadly both now passed away. We had of course the skills of Sonny Harte himself no mean hand with the woodworking tools.