Our regatta this year will be held on Saturday 29th August. We will have races around Craigleith, approx 1.8miles, which takes anything from 18-30 mins depending on conditions of water and crew! This year we’ll be doing the prize giving in the Hope Rooms (where we serve teas) shortly after the last race. Boats entered …
It has to be said a rowing event at Foxlake is definitely a regatta with a difference, especially at the John Muir Winter Festival. For starters the lake has swimmers and wakeboarders; the latter in their underpants apparently for charity, then there’s the running dogs pulling owners along in liquid mud and the cycle races …
Just the thing to wake you up on a November Sunday morning if you’ve had a shandy or two the night before [flickr photo=15671108798 size=medium] {flike id=264}
Saturday morning row, life could be worse… [flickr photo=15848897811 size=medium] {flike id=263}
Lovely October Sunday morning, NBRC took two St Ayles Skiffs and a Haningfield three seater out to Fidra for a leisurely row where coffee and cake was served in lieu of breakfast. [flickr photo=15337629830 size=medium] Apparently there were dolphins close by, but I didn’t see them, so may as well claim that we saw Kelpies. …
Whilst the Tiger Cup was going on in North Berwick with our St Ayles Skiffs, NBRC was also represented at the Nith Navigation Race (Dumfries) by the Wightman family rowing a double sculled skiff. The race is a six mile journey up the River Nith from Glencaple up to White Sands in Dumfries town centre. …
NBRC finished the race season with an internal competition racing around Craigleith in the Tiger Cup (now more of a concept than an actual trophy since the real one has been mislaid). Crews were balanced, and a handicap system applied to ensure that all ages and genders could compete on an equal footing. Six crews …
After the rigours of the Tyne on Saturday, we needed a refreshing row to relax, and were not disappointed as it ticked all the boxes. Clive, Jo, Phil & Sheena took Zev, and were accompanied by skiffs from Dunbar (x2), Eyemouth (remember SeaBreeze?), and a really enthusiastic team from Amble. The tide was under us …
What is it about this rowing lark? We get up really early, socialise as late as possible, go through the pain barrier, scars, blisters and bruises to show for it, be really competitive, enjoy coffee and scones, saunter out to the bass in company, drive miles for regattas, camping? All in the name of FUN …
North Berwick sent a young team with some level headed [Ed: “old”] mentors down to Maiden’s in Ayrshire.The event was planned to be a two day one, with a junior regatta on the Sunday. However before the teams were recruited the ambition was reduced to a one day event with the excisman’s chase (an 8km …