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.What a great day we had for our regatta, OK there was a bit of drizzle later on, but the sea was calm (ish), the wind was down, and the beach was a hive of activity with Sailing, Rowing and the annual North Berwick Raft Race all going on. 13 rowing clubs visited North Berwick …
Seeking a gentle warm-up for the North Berwick regatta, an intrepid NBRC contingent went south of the border, down Newcastle way on the 17th of September to take part in the second Great Tyne row. This is, as the name implies, a row along the river Tyne starting in rural surroundings to the west of Newcastle, passing through Newcastle itself and ending up at Tynemouth. Both skiffs went down accompanied by a newcomer, Speedwell, a Teifi double skiff belonging to a syndicate of club members and making her second outing under her new ownership (the first having been a brief practice the day before).
15th August saw the third North Berwick Rowing Club Trades Cup. The rugby club were back to try to regain the trophy that they have won the previous two years and were joined by the lads from Space, plus two new teams for 2013, the Physiotherapists and the RNLI. None of the teams had any …
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 …