An ever-hopeful and enthusiastic group of 31 North Berwick rowers, family and friends and the Skiff John B made their annual pilgrimage North to the Ullapool regatta on the 11 and 12 July. After the amazing success of last year’s inaugural World Championships hosted by Ullapool we were keen to return and sample their highland …
The weekend of 27/29 June saw the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival in Portsoy and our thanks go to Jo and Clive who towed Skiff John B up on the Thursday. Their efforts were to be richly rewarded, as, not only did Clive find himself coxing Olympic Rowing Medallist, Katherine Grainger as she tried her hand …
Our regatta this year will be held on Saturday 23rd August 2014. We will have our usual races around Craigleith, approx 1.8miles, which takes anything from 18-30 mins depending on conditions of water and crew! On Saturday night we will have a social event in North Berwick. On Sunday we won’t formally schedule anything but …
We had a club social at Foxlake Adventures last night, to enjoy our prize from the rowing races we held there in February. Great fun on the Foxfalls assault course and the Wakeboarding lines. Check out the photos… Thanks to James and the crew at Foxlake for a great evening. [flickr photo=14505465101 size=medium] [flickr photo=14322237270 size=medium] …
This fine June weather provided the ideal opportunity to meet up with Dunbar at Bass Rock for a leisurely row with club members enjoying a floating picnic whilst admiring/avoiding the gannets on Bass Rock. [flickr photo=14491815221 size=medium] {flike id=246}
Saturday saw a crack NB team making the short trip to Portobello, keen to avenge their narrow defeat at the hands of Anster the week before. The Portobello course, straight out from the beach, round a buoy and back to the shore had the unusual feature of growing longer as the tide came in so …
Eleven hardy souls set off in the brilliant sunshine which changed to Scottish monsoon before lunch. Teriffic atmosphere at Greenock with our friends from Royal West, Queensferry, Anstruther and Troon along with those crazy Dutch guys who were camping in the garden. Success in the first long race saw a mixed crew of team Robertson …
Skiff Watch (SW) very much enjoyed watching the fourth NBRC Trades Cup last Thursday (29th May). 7 teams of novice rowers representing various organisations from in and around North Berwick competed in a series of heats and finals over an out and back course of about 4 minutes. The 7 teams were… Foxlake Adventures The …
What a great day. We launched our third skiff, Blackadder. The sun came out and the fantastic North Berwick Pipe Band marched us through the streets of North Berwick before we officially named and launched our third St Ayles Skiff. Here’s to a long hot summer of rowing….. [flickr photo=14082082037 size=medium] {flike id=242}
Probably the best away performance by NB yet, we went up to visit the mighty Coigach with a big squad of 30 rowers, entered every race, and performed heroically to a person. Our bosuns had put in a huge shift to get Skiff John B ready for racing and up we went to the beautiful …