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Bedford Small Boats Head 2024

Bedford Small Boats Head 13/10/2024. The event went ahead despite some high river stream and recent flooding. Masters C/D/E double sculls (time trial). Stewart P and I are Masters D (50-55 average age) racing for Staines Boat Club Town Bridge: Butterfly Bridge: Last stroke before the finish: Official time was 7:32 for the 1,950m course,…

Staines Regatta 2024

Staines Regatta 27/07/2024 Our home regatta, where I am competing in a double and a quad on Saturday, we also entered a double for Sunday, but our entry was rejected due to a lack of competition. Masters E/F 2x semi final with Mark F (850m) Staines Boat Club (E) vs Eton Excelsior RC (E). Managed…

Molesey Regatta 2024

Molesey Regatta 20/7/2024 Jonathan K and myself racing in the masters C double sculls quarter final (850m) Staines Boat Club (C) vs Walbrook RC (C). Congratulations on the win to Walbrook. Unfortunately I managed to inspect the local foliage 250m into the course and lost us 15 seconds, we were already down by 2 1/2…

Kingston Regatta 2024

Kingston Regatta 13/07/2024 Mark F and myself racing in the Masters double Sculls semi-final (1000m): Staines BC (E) vs Kingston RC (E) Congratulations on the win to Kingston. Unfortunately we couldn’t ‘get it together’ on the day and were constantly fighting the boat and the river. River was very ‘choppy’ but despite that, we couldn’t…

Henley Royal Regatta 2024

A wonderful day at Henley Royal Regatta on, Thursday 4th July, with a number of other members of Staines Boat Club You may notice that I am not wearing Staines Green, I am wearing the original colours for Wycliffe College, the school where I learned to row. Wycliffe A dominating in the Diamond Jubilee Challenge…

Don’t argue with narrow boats

Sunday morning I was out in a fine double with Jonathan, working on our stability. Jonathan has a bit of a ‘lean’ to bow side which is quite painful for him to correct, as a result I tend to lean to stroke side to counter balance. This is not ideal, but better than the boat…

Monmouth Regatta – Sunday Morning

Day two of  Monmouth Regatta, 750m sprint races today  and I set off from my folks home bright and early once again. The forecast for today was originally thunderstorms, so hopefully those pass us by and we can have some racing. I don’t have any races this morning, I am only racing this afternoon, but…

Monmouth Regatta – Saturday

Monmouth Regatta is run over 2 days with 2 divisions each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, you can enter both divisions, but cannot enter multiple boats in a single division. The Saturday distance is 1,500m, the Sunday distance is 750m We originally tried to enter open 4- for the Saturday…

Tour de SkiErg 2024

The February challenge on the Concept 2 website was the Tour de SkiErg, four time trials, one per week: 5,000m, 500m, 2,000m and 10,000m. These must be entered as a single distance and completed in the required week to qualify.   Week 1: 5,000m time trial. (current PB 21:23.1 or 2:08.3/500m average) 5:31.1 (1,012m) warm…