Volunteers build the first community rowing boat for the Isle of Man

A team of volunteers have dedicated 11 months to painstaking build a rowing boat as part of a new community scheme to get people on to the water.

Named Teeval, which is Manx Gaelic for mermaid, it is the first of three planned as part of the Laxey Community Skiff Building Project, which aims to help people reconnect with the sea.

Groups of people of all ages can now take the boat out in the bay for leisure or to race.

In future, it is hoped teams will also be able travel to races in Scotland and Ireland, where Skiff building schemes have been growing in popularity since 2009.

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