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In memoriam - A sudden end to a long career.

It is our onerous duty to report that Don " -the-Don" is no longer a Novice Sculler. The end came suddenly and unexpectedly in a Restricted 2 sculling event at Clydesdale Regatta.

For some years, Don had been competing at regattas in the Novice division and was deeply proud of his "always first at 250 and always back for more" philosophy. His admirers were looking forward to many more years of such entertainment.

Don is survived in Novice sculling by numerous competitors, all no doubt thinking "must have been a freak accident".

GRC shine in the sun

Some of GRC's newest competitors enjoyed the brief glimpse of the sun on Saturday and came away with a few notable wins and other good performances.

• Mix 4x - Don, Olivia, Emma .... and Christoph (what a début!)
• MNov 4x+ - Kevin, Jonathan, Christoph (again!), Fergus and Jules
• WJu16 2x - Hel-Kat
• MRes2 1x - Don
• WJu18 1x - Helena
• WJu16 1x - Kathleen
• full results

Regatta this Saturday

The provisional draw for Saturday's prestigious event is available here.

GRC win 1 2 3 bronze at BUCS!

(Shurely another mishatke? - Ed.)

Racing at Nottingham, for GUBC, congratulations are due to

• Anine and Cap'n Jane, who won Bronze for GUBC in Lightweight 2x,
• and again to Anine who went on to win another Bronze in Lightweight 1x...
• and finally to Anine, Cap'n Jane, Beth and Katharina who won ANOTHER Bronze in Lightweight 4x.

(Good luck with that BUCS web link - if you find any results, please pass them on!)

Thanks to Jenny for helping with web site results-finding:
Results:

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Belgrade World Cup Regatta starts today

Sadly - NOT featuring Polly in the stroke seat of the GB women's eight! - Our correspondent, R.M. Reid, Umpire of this parish says:

According to a 'reliable' source ... Polly Swann withdrew from the women's eight and was replaced by "Aberdeenshire's"* Vicky Meyer-Laker.

* - our quotes. They could have said "would you like a kilt on that?"

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GRC racing at BUCS

(Surely shome mishtake? - Ed.)

It's true - GRC stalwarts Anine, Beth, Katharina and Cap'n Jane*, all winners at last week's SUC competiton, head to Nottingham in GUBC colours this weekend, to race at the premier UK University regatta.

* (The Cap'ns dead, long live the Cap'n.)

SPR is over.

GRC won 8 SPR events, GRC crews rowing as GUBC won 3 SUC events, Jules coxed the winning Clydesdale (!?!) Junior 8 and there were lots of other good performances; the results are now out - see for yourself. (More details will be added later.)

• results

A lot of excellent pictures, from Malcolm (usual place if you can't wait) and Neil, will be along presently.

As usual, we had a fantastic effort from the whole club - and their families - to make the catering operation a success, in what was a long and cold weekend for many.

We also bid a fond farewell to Cap'n Jo who is leaving us for a new opportunity in the Far East (no, not Embra - even further than that!).

GRC on the WWWeb

Don spotted this, and says

Olima in a GRC boat go all over the internet!

Explaining rowing to a non-rower

...pomposity?

Clydesdale's Summer Regatta Secretary would like to invite all fellow rowers to this prestigious event.

• Saturday 12th May
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Now... where did I put that quote from Jim MacRitchie?

Racing news:

This weekend - Strathclyde Park Regatta, both days, with GRC doing the catering again. Have you signed up to help yet?

UPDATED - AGAIN! - Here is the latest version of the catering rota, on GRCMembers.

Lots of GRC races at SPR; here is the UPDATED draw, with GRC races and finals highlighted. If any are missing, contact the webmaster.

• SPR Final draw

Well done, Polly!

Following from her recent success at GB trials (see below), Polly has been selected for the GB eight at the next World Cup regatta, in Belgrade.

GB Rowing Team announces crews for first 2012 World Cup

Mr Warnock, Snr. will be very pleased!

Young People's Sport Panel

From the SR Web site:

... ensure Scotland's younger generation play an active and significant rôle in developing and influencing policy in sport. If you are between 14 and 25 years old and are interested in getting involved, the job description and application forms can be downloaded at: www.youngscot.org/sportpanel. Applications close on Friday 20th April 2012.

First regatta of the season - SPR

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• PLEASE USE the Entries spreadsheet (GRCMembers sign-in required)
• NB - all entry fees are to be paid in advance on a per-crew basis.

Gonnae no' dae that?

Snapper Ron has some excellent pictures from Tideway, mostly of Aberdonian crews, but also other Scottish boats, including GRC and Clydesdale.

Long lens, obviously.

MORE photos

David Nolan has added pictures of the Scullers Head and the Double Sculls. Look in the column to the right, below the HoRR photos.

Roy ( Colin's dad) Sinclair of Inverness RC has kindly sent on some good photos of GRC finally getting past the crew in front at Tideway.

Look in the right column for lots of 8s & 4s Head photos, from David Nolan.

Tideway - GRC 41 ^st!

Feeling was that they did well but were badly obstructed by another crew.

Top Scottish crew, again, by a long way. Only 10 seconds would have raised them to 30 ^th - that's how close the racing is at that event.

Rotten weather by the sound of things.

Nice to see St Andrews Uni do so well...

FINISH - Scottish crews in The HoRR:

...er, that's it. Corrections welcome!

GB Trials success

Our most recent GB team members - Polly and Sam, who both rowed in successful GRC boats before competing at the World Under-23 championships in 2010 - have recorded great results at the GB Senior trials at the weekend.

Polly was 4 ^th in the women's pair, while Sam was 6 ^th in lightweight sculls.

Full report and results

CARC Scullers' Head / 2x Head

• Results:
  • Scullers
  • 2x
• Here are some pictures from Malcolm (and Peter).
• Scullers' Head -
  
  • Gavin was fastest sculler
  • Don won MNov
  • Emma won WJu18 (fastest woman)
  • Helena won WJu16 (2nd fastest woman)
• 2x Head -
  
  • Beth and Katharina were fastest women's 2x
  • Emma and Olivia won WJu18 (2nd fastest W2x)
  • ( Hel-Kat were 3rd fastest)

Eights head - GRC eights win again

At Saturday's CARC eights head (billed as the 63rd*), both GRC eights were victorious again. The men's crew were easily the fastest crew of the day. Later, the Women's Novice crew won their pennant - unbeaten in Scotland this season.

However, the BIG news was the win for Tom in his first-ever race for GRC in MVet 4s.

• 8s and 4s Results
• Photos from Chris

* Described eloquently thus:

...pretentious historical tosh...

(© J MacR)

Scottish crews in WEHoRR:

Tideway

• The UPDATED draw for the men's head is now online (GRC still at #64), while
• The FINAL draw for the women's head has been posted.

More SUBC photos

Look in the right column for lots of SUBC Head photos, from David Nolan.

Weekend results

At Inverness, every GRC competitor was in a winning or fastest boat:

• Senior men's eight was the fastest crew overall (even with a strangely large and wheezy bowman).
• Senior Women's eight won the R2 event very comfortably and would have loved to be racing in Div 1 if boats had allowed it.
• Novice Women's eight were the fastest crew, though given a 'dead heat' by the organizers - still unbeaten this season.
• Kathleen was proud to (ahem) win the WJu16 1x prize...

Results

Meanwhile, at Boston:

• on Saturday, Emma, Olivia and Helena were 31st, 51st and 21st in their respective 1x classes.
• on Sunday, Emma, and Olivia were 11th pair while Helena came 18th overall in the 2x in a scratch combination with Charlie Dyer from Haberdasher's.

Results: Sat, Sun

Women's Tideway

The provisional draw is now online. GRC crews starting #58 (2nd Scottish crew?) and #267.