When most of North Berwick were still tucked up in their beds, ten mad souls dragged themselves to the harbour for the first, of hopefully many, captains’ coffee and cake social rows. The bells were just chiming 8 when we launched into a fantastic morning sea. Going out the West Passage at just after full …
After calling off the Tiger Cup earlier in the year due to storms, we grabbed the good weather window yesterday to have a quickly arranged internal, friendly knockout race competition that I’m sure would make the founder proud. Twenty red shirts gathered on the beach for what turned into a lovely day, the aea state …
We do like it rough at NB ! The sun shone and the wind certainly blew. White horses and big side waves to the Craig, a nice bit of clapotis then settle in for a breather in the good water round the back…and steel your selves for the wall of wind and final sprint for …
The sun, remembering for once that it really should have its hat on in August, dazzled a hard core of North Berwick rowers who had made the trip up to the Big Orange (widely known as Newburgh) for a day of racing on the Tay. The course was just over a kilometre with 3 turns …
The west coast is notoriously rainy throughout the year. At NBRC we prepare ourselves for whatever the elements throw at us. However, 20 of our members were pleasantly surprised when arriving at Greenock on the 9th August for the Royal West regatta, to be bathed in warm sunshine with only a slight hint of a …
Saturday 1st August saw a small group of NBRC members head along the coast to Musselburgh to take part in Eskmuthe Rowing Club’s second skiff regatta. Other clubs present were Port Seton, Row Porty and some representatives of Amble Rowing Club who were using one of Eskmuthe’s boats. The racing kicked off in the early …
Eighteen members of NBRC made the journey to Loch Broom for the Ullapool Regatta on the weekend of Friday 10th July. Unusually there was a little rain this year (ahem!), but our spirits were not dampened, and as ever, we rowed, partied, celebrated, and all the things that make rowing fun. The complete results can …
A Midsummer Night’s Row – By Alan B., Cameron, Clive, Elisa, Finlay R., Issy, Jo, Karen, Mel and Sheena “Four oars will quickly steep themselves in night;Four rowers will quickly dream away the time;And then the skiff, like to a silver bowNew-bent in heaven, shall behold the nightOf our solemnities.” Those five lines set the …
Saturday 20th June dawned bright and breezy when a team of NBRC die-hards ventured to Granton Harbour for a different type of Skiff race. Although one of the larger clubs, our team was the only one where our runner ran twice, and our rowers…rowed twice. All other clubs had multiple runners and rowers. 9 Skiffie …
Well the day dawned very overcast and dreich. The thought of putting on layers and layers in mid June was not high on my agenda after the summer weather of last week. But trying to keep positive it was Sunny Dunny we were heading to. We had our coxes briefing crowded into the cadet hut, …