Henley stuff

The GRC crews and followers will be using Twitter to post the occasional message to let us know what's happening, on the column on the right ("Henley Twit").

On the far right ("Henley Latest ") is the official HRR twitter update which will include race results as the regatta progresses.

Update

Links:

• the DRAW (GRC 'selected' in Wyfolds)
• Regatta home page
• Results (all events)
  • Brittania
  • Wyfolds
• Regatta radio (listen to live action on your computer)

Quali-ty

Belated mention to our well-travelled senior squad; the 4- were racing at Marlow this weekend - a close second place in their event, finishing fast-but-not-quite-fast-enough, it looks like.

However, the people you want to impress are the Henley Stewards, who have published the list of crews required to qualify for this year's regatta. Quite a few Scottish crews on the list, but none from GRC. Well done, team.

More on GRCMembers.

Just Champions

At the 2009 Scottish Rowing Championships, Glasgow Rowing Club won

• Men's open coxed fours
• Men's open pairs
• Men's under-23 coxed fours (with George Watson's College)
• Men's veteran coxed fours (D/E category)
• Women's novice double sculls
• Men's open coxless fours
• Men's open eights
• Women's novice coxed quad sculls
• Men's lightweight single sculls
• Women's intermediate double sculls
  and
• Silver medal in Women's novice sculls.

We went home tired... but fairly happy.

On the Scottish Rowing website -

Glasgow RC were dominant

• Saturday
• Sunday

Summer barbecue - Aug 1st - get your tickets!

There will be a lot of back-slapping at the traditional GRC Summer Barbecue on August 1st - we just don't know how much, yet!

More information.

eagerly awaits your ticket order - all welcome.

Loading tonight (Friday)

Scottish Championship - boat loading; see Al's note on GRCMembers.

1st phase of loading is this afternoon at the club - target time is 4:30. Boats de-rigged in advance would be good!

Latest

Scottish Championship draft draw is out.
Here is the usual GRC version.

More photos from Met: see the photo column on the right.

Next regattas

Update

( from the Scottish Rowing Web site and David Biddulph's rowing calendars)

Next - Scottish Champs

A bit disappointing at Semple, but still looking good for the Scottish. A couple of good 2nd places and good racing efforts but only the veteran 'D' four returning with medals. Photos on the right, more welcome.

Any report or more pictures from Dorney?

Big result from GB at Banyoles, on BBC iPlayer.

Entries for the Scottish close tomorrow (Tuesday) - so make sure Al knows what you're racing in!

This weekend: 1 - racing at Metropolitan (Dorney)

GRC senior men are going South to play with the big boys.

• Race Video - Row TV

This weekend: 2 - racing at Castle Semple

GRC women, juniors and veteran men are racing at Castle Semple regatta from dawn 'til dusk.

• Here is a truncated list of GRC races: CSRCDraw2009.pdf
• Full spreadsheet on Google docs. Let me know ( ) how this works for you, please.
• You need to be at Lochwinnoch about 90 minutes BEFORE your start time.
• You need to make arrangements for loading (Friday 4:15 or so) and unloading (CHANGED - Sunday morning) YOUR boat(s) and blades etc.on the trailer.

NO ROWING AT GRC ON SATURDAY 30th

There will be a junior session at 10:00 on Sunday - confirm by if you want to take part.

Scottish Championships - 3 weeks away!

All the event information for the 2009 Scottish Championships has been published:

• notice,
• club letter,
• conditions of entry,
• events list

Entries close on 2nd June - and you NEED to have a licence!

Photographs

More pictures of GRC people from David Nolan, look in the 'photo' column, right.

Proper rowing time again

Results found in TV listings (Radio Times):

• Rowing: World Cup Highlights

  Monday 01 June 1:00pm BBC2 Scotland

New club kit

Lynda has got the whole kit thing organized: we now have 2 kit suppliers:

1. Splash tops and one-pieces from JL. (Crewroom is UK supplier.)
2. Loads of other kit items from Godfrey. There are designs and price guidelines on this dedicated page on the Godfrey web site.

If you would like to order, speak to first, to ensure that any such orders are consolidated to gain the best price deal.

Novice win 1...

One hundred percent - raced one, won one - for the GRC Novice women's quad; Joanna, Olivia, Katharina, Kate (I) and Jules. Well done! (Any pictures?)

...novice win 2...

Winning Novice sculls - and not novice any more - was Kate (D not I), racing for SUBC.

..a surprise win...

Also - in what must have been the day's most exciting finish for the spectators*, the Vet 'D' four won their race after it was re-scheduled over 1500m.

* Pretty exciting for the participants too, judging from the whooping noises FC was making.

...and finally -

'Mauler' Matt's coaching must have paid off, as GUBC's 1st Men's boat, featuring Kieran and Chris, gave the EUBC boys a lesson in winning. Very painful to watch, so it was.

Results from Clydesdale regatta.

Next - Castle Semple

If you intend racing at Castle Semple on 30th May, get your entry in pronto: discussion on GRCMembers.

Photographs

David Nolan has some great pictures on his Flickr site of GRC people at SPR: use this link to start a slideshow at the appropriate point.

Saturday race schedule

Update

The final draw is now available in excel and pdf formats.

Special GRC marked up version: draw.xls.
(Sincere apologies for not giving due prominence to the catchweight contest that is the GUBC vs. EUBC graduate race, featuring 'Mauler' Matt (East coast) and 'Ten-pak' TK and 'Kick-ass' Kenny (West Coast).

Please check your race times and let Al know a.s.a.p. if you see a problem.

Next regattas

Update

( from the Scottish Rowing Web site and David Biddulph's rowing calendars)

British Universities Regatta

Update

GRC members competing: Iain Docwra representing Heriot-Watt uni was 3rd (Bronze medal) in intermediate 1x and Al Sarahs representing Edinburgh was 4th in championship 1x.

Results can be found on this page.

• Recent
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006: from July
• 2006: to June
• 2005
• 2004