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Shoreham Raft Race 2026

2026

Homemade rafts, cheering crowds and a very lively afternoon on the river.

A young woman in a blue Sicily T-shirt serves at a cannoli stall beside the river.

Two women with long blonde hair queue at a brightly painted food van.

A flotilla of homemade rafts packed with crews sets off across the river by the flats.

A raft carrying a small red hut drifts past houseboats with its crew paddling hard.

An orange RNLI inflatable speeds across the river with its crew in yellow kit.

An RNLI inshore lifeboat holds position on the river below the footbridge.

Spectators crowd a jetty as a raft heads out across open water.

Rafters in yellow costumes paddle beneath the concrete footbridge.

Three RNLI volunteers in life jackets grin for a spectator's phone camera.

Crew members in Viking helmets paddle a raft past an old wooden sailing barge.

A woman in a cap watches from the shallows as costumed rafts pass the old toll bridge buildings.

Rafters dressed as bananas push a raft made from blue barrels and fake grass.

A man in a banana costume wades beside a barrel raft, grinning.

A raft crew in life jackets and wigs sits on deckchairs while a marshal checks them in.

A marshal steadies a raft topped with a blue sea-serpent figurehead.

A marshal in a race T-shirt wades out towards swimmers and rafts in the river.

Crew members load bikes onto a dragon-headed raft at the water's edge.

A rafter in sunglasses and a curly wig tightens his life jacket on the slipway.

A man in a floral shirt and garland stands by a raft with a hand-painted heart.

A grinning rafter swims beside a blue fish-shaped float.

A blue dragon costume towers over the crowd on the beach.

Rafters in life jackets carry paddles up the shore through the crowd.

A crew in white shirts and ties paddles raft number 16, one waving to the crowd.

A young man in glasses carries a blue fish mascot past a friend on the shingle.

A marshal hands a paddle to a rafter waiting by the pontoon.

Rafters stand waist-deep beside a barrel raft with a Shoreham Poplar Front banner.

Raft racers in grass skirts and leis carry their homemade raft along the Shoreham riverside.

A girl sits on raft number 27 while her crewmates get ready on the slipway.

A girl stands at the front of raft 27 as it pushes off from the pontoon.

A crew paddles a white raft back towards the moored boats.

A bearded man in a bandana walks barefoot through the shallows after the race.

A young woman in a yellow life jacket chats with a man in a red polo shirt.

A seal pokes its head out of the water beside an old red-hulled sailing barge.

Three women in life jackets wade ashore arm in arm, smiling.

Crew members carry a raft with a Spreading Warmness banner up the beach.

A man in a cap ties balloons onto a barrel raft on the beach.

A tired rafter lies stretched out in a camping trolley beside the cars.

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