Well done Libby for hosting the NBRC Christmas Curry night again. Who made that gorgeous beef curry, I must get the recipe? 🙂 Respect Robbie, back out on the party scene barely 12 hours after his office party finished. [flickr photo=11399425844 size=medium] {flike id=227}
Great to hear Leven Brown talking about Ocean Rowing for the Friends of North Berwick Museum. Leven has made a career out of breaking records in ocean rowing and talked about his expeditions and plans for 2014 and beyond. Our own Jamie Douglas Hamilton will be joining him next year to be the first crew …
Saturday 21st September saw North Berwick Rowing Club adventure south across the border for a “social row” up The Tweed. With only an hour’s drive to reach the start line we were relaxed and jovial on departure.
The sun shone and the warm sandy beach glowed as each of the 12 clubs slid their boats into the calm water of the river. Everyone expected an easy and maybe slightly boring row.And we’re off…the weather is beautiful in Ullapool, all the boats are here and have been launched. Princess Anne arrived in style, by helicopter before boarding a RIB and receiving a “row past” by each of the skiffs…quite a sight. Robbie looked presentable and made us all proud (speech will be online soon!) The competition …
Day 2 and it’s the long distance race. The plan was for the men to race approx 5 miles from Ullapool to Ardmair and then for the ladies to race back. Turned out a little differently, the men set off at 11:00am heading North West out of Loch Broom into a stiff wind and choppy. …
North Berwick Ladies, old and young, led the way to gold success at the Worlds. First golds went to the ladies U17 crew [flickr photo=9255190863 size=medium] Then Holly and Isla doubled up to take further gold in the U19 Ladies (with the fourth crew member coming from our friends at Dunbar) [flickr photo=9255210083 size=medium] Not …
Day 4 was a silver day, three of them in total for North Berwick in the Ladies 50+, the Mixed Open A and the Mixed Open B. There were four finals today with our 50+ men in a three way dogfight that almost got them a bronze medal but had to settle for fifth. North …
It’s been sunshine and fantastic conditions all week in Ullapool. Day 5 was the day of the over 40s with three finals to be contested. This was my big race hence more focussed on rowing than photos….apologies, but more will be forthcoming. But it was worth it as the North Berwick 40+ men won a …
Back in NB now, but Day 6 (Sat) had five finals and NBRC competed in all of them. The wind got up a little bit so the races were a notch slower than previous days, but the competition was intense and with double points on offer for the open category it was all to play …
That was then… Dec 2012 brought terrible storms to North Berwick that smashed St Baldred into North Berwick harbour leaving the wreck you see here… [flickr photo=8279518450 size=medium] This is now… [flickr photo=9134167400 size=medium] After many months of skilled labour from our master boat builder Norman Thomson and his trusted lieutenants Willie and Johnny and …