Was that the best North Berwick Regatta yet? The weather was warm, dry and mainly sunny, but with enough westerly wind to provide testing conditions. NBRC welcomed twelve visiting clubs who brought enough crews to fill most events. Thanks for coming to Boatie Blest, Broughty Ferry, Coigach, Crail, Dunbar, Eastern, Eskmuthe, Islay, Row Porty, Royal …
A squad of 20 rowers from NBRC went to South Queensferry and boy was it blowy, white horses across the Forth under the bridges made “interesting” rowing conditions. Various club gazebos needed to be held down with concrete slabs. The triangular course meant a fast wind-assisted first leg to the buoy then across the wind …
Helmsdale, as we discovered, is a long way from North Berwick to drive on a Friday afternoon. We’ve bumped oars with the Bunillidh crews at many regattas over the last few years, but they’d always said that their own regatta was just a wee affair for local clubs only, well we asked, and we pestered …
Our regatta this year will be held on Saturday 26th August 2017. We will have races around Craigleith, approx 1.8miles, which takes anything from 18-30 mins depending on conditions of water and crew! Depending on conditions we may need to split the races into 2 waves (stronger the wind, the less boats we can manage …