Tickets are now available for the big event of 2010.  There will be a dinner to celebrate the huge contribution of Bobby Platt MBE to rowing at Coleraine Inst.

We trust that all those who have been helped by Bobby will make an effort to attend. The dinner is on Saturday 6th March with a reception at 7pm in the Templeton Hall followed by dinner at 7.30pm in the Humphreys Hall.  Tickets are £30 per person and can be obtained from the reception at Inst.  If you can't get to the school, send a cheque made payable to "C.A.I." to

Dr George Hull
Coleraine Inst
Castlerock Road
Coleraine
BT51 3LA

Please let us know if you plan to attend, as we need to get numbers for the catering.

At the Coleraine Sports Council Awards on Friday 6th November Bobby Platt MBE was the man of the hour when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.  This is to mark Bobby's long service to sport in the coleraine area, and was long overdue.

Bobby has also won the Northern Ireland section of the Unsung Hero Awards this year.  This meant that he was over at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in Sheffield.

Bobby continues his coaching at the BBC Sports Personailty of the year Award.

Alan Campbell also won the Sportsman of the Year award for 2009 to mark his acheivement in claiming the silver medal at the Worlds, which he did while breaking the Worlds Best Time.






To round off a good evening for rowing, Bann J16 & J18 squad won the Junior Team of the Year, and Seamus Reynolds (Bann RC Head Coach) won the Coach of the Year.

Coleraine Inst has appointed a new coach for the rowing club this season.  He is Colin Lawson, who is originally from Yorkshire, and we are looking forward to working with him this year.

A short interview of the new coach has been carried out by Phil and appears on the CAIBC 2009 page.

Alan broke the World Best Time in the final of the mens single scull, to finish a very close second to Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand.  A report will appear in the old boy archives page soon.

Also for a report from the recent Irish Championships please visit the CAIBC Archives.

A short report on the COBRA bbq will be in the COBRA Archives soon.

The annual dinner in the evening was followed by an after dinner speech by none other than Bobby Platt MBE.  A report is on the Archives page.

     Welcome to the home page of the Coleraine Old Boys Rowing Association (C.O.B.R.A.). 

      We as old boys of Coleraine Academical Institution Boat Club (C.A.I.B.C.) have set up C.O.B.R.A. with main aim of supporting C.A.I.B.C. financially as well as in terms of administration and coaching, to help maintain this 80 year old, proud rowing tradition. 

Our long term aims would be to provide a body within which old boy oarsmen may keep in touch with each other and even compete together.  Indeed, on the 23rd December 2002, a group of old boys congregated on the River Bann to re-establish the traditional old boys versus school boys race.  The outcome of this race and the subsequent races can be found in the "COBRA archives" page. 

The "CAIBC Old Boy Archives" page also gives details of how well old boys, got on during the year.  

A brief overview of the C.O.B.R.A. organization, its contacts and HOW TO JOIN, are available in the “Overview” page, along with available C.O.B.R.A. merchandice. 

A list of upcoming events organized by C.O.B.R.A. and C.A.I.B.C. are given below. 

   If you have any questions concerning C.O.B.R.A. and C.A.I.B.C, then please do not hesitate to contact us at chairman @ cobrarowing.co.uk  (remove the 2 spaces from the email address and put "COBRA" in the subject title to avoid the spam detector).

For more information, please email the usual address  chairman @ cobrarowing.co.uk  (remove the 2 spaces from the email address and put "COBRA" in the subject title to avoid the spam detector).

  Your support at any of the races is always appreciated.  As old boys will know well, a shout of encouragement at any race is always beneficial!  The next races we plan to attend are -

If you have any questions regarding upcoming CAIBC races or events, please contact us at chairman @ cobrarowing.co.uk  (remove the 2 spaces from the email address and put "COBRA" in the subject title to avoid the spam detector).