Glasgow Rowing Club - News http://www.glasgowrowingclub.org/index.php 24 Mar 2008 360 'Silver' Regatta - photographs (8/4/08) Fran wins 1x at the GRC Silver Regatta.
Fran's first!

Malcolm put some photos of the regatta on GRC Members. Click on the picture of Fran to go to the Picasa album (the GRCMembers files don't seem to be directly link-able).

GRC Novice 2x
Double Trouble

Douglas has put some of his photos up on his own Picasa gallery . Click on the photo, or link to it from the GRC gallery.

]]> 'Silver' Regatta - success! (6/4/08) The Glasgow Rowing Club 'Silver' Regatta ran according to plan yesterday, with almost all of the excitement contained in the racing, although there were two occasions when scullers discovered the hard way that the water temperature at this time of year bears no relation to the brightness of the sunshine. Sandy and his safety crew (Bill Mac) were quickly on hand to provide assistance, and the services of Dr Lurve were not required.

The racing programme ran very smoothly, in large part because of the experienced team of Umpires, ably led by the sartorially splendid Mr McKinney.

It was good to see GRC crews contesting a number of events notwithstanding the heavy commitment of personnel required to run the regatta, and in fact we were close (in a GRC/SUBC composite) to winning the main event of the day, the Men's eights, losing to Clyde in the final, having beaten Clydesdale to get there. In the end the only event we did win* was Women's Open Sculls, carried off in two races by the club's newest member, Fran Jacob. Well done Fran (and coach GW) - an auspicious start to the main season

Thanks, as usual, to all the helpers - and in particular to George, Sandy and Bill Mac, who stepped in, weeks ago, to make sure the regatta course and the necessary infrastructure was prepared and ready!

* It has been pointed out that the GRC/ABC Vet 2x combination of Peter Trenchard and Richard Mathieson (who didn't point it out) were victorious in their event, too!

]]> 'Silver' Regatta this weekend! (1 April 08) The Glasgow Rowing Club 'Silver' Regatta will go ahead this Saturday. Racing will run from 10:30 am until approximately 4 pm. The provisional draw will be published later today.

Newsflash:

To celebrate this special anniversary, we will be awarding a club prize of a set of gold-plated sculling oars to the most deserving club on the day!

You might think we obviously cannot afford to do this.... and you'd be right.... but when did reality ever put the brakes on a wacky scheme in Scottish Rowing?

]]> What's an anthropometrist? (28/3/08) ]]> Boat race coverage (24/3/08) For anyone interested, the boat race (the one that gives everyone the wrong idea about rowing) will be on television this Sunday.

The Herald have a piece about it today.

Interestingly, the 'rowing correspondent' is on an (all-too-brief) absence... so - no excuse for this, then.

]]> Tideway aftermath (18/3/08) HoRR results are here. Mixed outcomes for Scottish clubs; GUBC were fastest Scottish crew, while SUBC had their boat trashed by vandals.

The Veteran Head was cancelled. ("What a shame!" - S.Goldie)

Various descriptions and discussions of both events; on the Tideway Slug, the Rowing Service and rec.sport.rowing.

]]> Tideway. (14/3/08) The main event is on Saturday, starts at 9:45.

The Veteran Head is on Sunday, starts at 10:30 over the same course (Mortlake to Putney).

Give us a shout!

]]> Women's Tideway... (01/3/08) ...did go ahead, surprisingly!

The composite crew with GRC's Lindsay Dick and Fran Jacob were 17th overall and 9th in their S1 division - well done! Only 35 seconds behind the overall winners and 17th out of 236 crews finishing the race.

A lady called Rachel has posted these photos. There may be more on the WEHoRR site.

More Eights

You might want to have a look at the Vesta web site for the Tideway Vets draw: www.vrc.org.uk/vets_head/

Good luck to GRC in the Clydesdale head.

See you next week.

]]> Nature watch (26/2/08) Malcolm has some photos of the local fauna, on GRC Members. Click on the images to see bigger versions.

Cormorant on the River Clyde
"Sit up at the finish!"

Urban fox by the River Clyde
"Going to the M74 demo?"

Urban fox by the River Clyde
"Yup!"

]]> New website (26/2/08) Ronnie's favourite boat purveyor has a nice new web site.

Competition

Rowperfect are looking for feedback on a number of things, including their "Look after your Cox" competition.

]]> Tideway (21/2/08) The list of entries for the HoRR is now up. Looks like 11 Scottish crews, only 1 from a non-University club (ABC, crew 28).

]]> Next, please:(18/2/08) On the SARA web site: Clydesdale 8s Head (8th March) details: poster, crew invite and entry form

Some results

  • From Inverness (Sat): - division 1 and division 2
    • PT sorely missed by his soulmate,
    • fast time from the women's composite crew in both races,
    • while the composite veteran boat stuffed all comers.
  • From the Tyne (Sat): Tyne Head results
    • Good wins for GUBC in both divisions.
  • From the Trent (Sun): Head of the Trent
    • Cambridge blue boat wins, Goldie 2nd
    • Leander S2 crew stroked by Invernusian Alan Sinclair.
]]> Women's Tideway (15/2/08) Draw is now up. GRC composite is crew #186. Also 2 crews from GUBC.

Chain-yanking

Results are on the Official Chain-Yanking Website.

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