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Ocean to City Cork Harbour Race in Cork Harbour
Ocean to City, or An Ras Mor, is a June race across Cork Harbour from Crosshaven into Cork city open to a deliberately mixed fleet of rowing boats, traditional currachs, kayaks and paddleboards, run as a signature event of the wider Cork Harbour Festival. A deliberately mixed fleet of rowing boats, traditional currachs, kayaks and paddleboards races each June from Crosshaven into Cork city, forming the signature sporting event of the wider Cork Harbour Festival.
Ocean to City, known in Irish as An Ras Mor, is an on-water race that runs each June across Cork Harbour, sending a large and deliberately mixed fleet of rowing boats, traditional currachs, kayaks, paddleboards and other human-powered craft along a course from Crosshaven at the harbour mouth into Cork city itself.