We gathered at eight o’clock on a lovely Sunday morning, it was a tad chilly but with blue skies and not much wind. Ten lively club members were joined by a very cheery five from Amble Rowing Club, including our departed Alan Burt We set off at a good pace but still had a bit …
Spring is here and rowing season about to start, so we got all the club lifejackets out, checked them, inflated them, tested the CO2 cannisters, and they’re ready for use….
Schedule 2:30pm Coxes briefing – at Old Pier gate, all coxes to attend, rowers are optional 2:45pm Crews meet on beach – all crews to be on the beach and ready 3:00pm First crews get on water Expect to finish around 5:30pm Entries Following teams are fully entered, they have a crew, a cox and …
Junior rowing starts Monday 27th March 5:45pm-7:00pm. Junior rowing this year will be Monday evenings. For the first time we will be having a series of regattas only open to juniors, so there will be opportunities to pit ourselves against other clubs. Open to all North Berwick young people aged 14-18, no experience necessary and …
Just because it’s January doesn’t mean we can’t get out, regular outings available to all NBRC members are available every Saturday 9:00am if you want a training workout, or 10:00am if you want a more leisurely recreational row. Just stick your name down here before the preceding Thursday. Can’t guarantee it’ll always be this calm …
This year’s Freshwater Sprints took place at Loch Tummel on October 29th. Each year rowers from all over the SCRA ‘world‘ are encouraged to attend, to coincide with the SCRA AGM. The scenery was breathtaking-autumnal colours, flat water and a midge or two! This was a fine venue and we were made most welcome by …
It’s not all about the racing, fresh from raiding Largs of their Medals, Medium John (won’t be Medium for long seeing as he was seen polishing off, not one, but two Ice Cream sundaes in Largs) rallied the troops for an early morning outing to Fidra. Clearly still on West Coast time, the planned 2 …
What an incredible week for the North Berwick Junior crews at the Skiff World Championships last week on Strangford Lough. Many of our youngsters had only taken up rowing this year, we started teaching them to row back in March, but they had never raced so we had no idea what to expect at the …
Well it certainly looks like summer, and the red tideline on my otherwise blue arms, says we must finally be here. We had mixed and ladies crews training hard for competition, we had social rowing for allcomers (open to anybody on a Sunday afternoon, book your seat for the next Sunday session here) and finally …
We started the junior rowing for 2016 last night, the future of NBRC is right here. Some of the youngsters had rowed a little before but most had not been in a rowing boat so, after covering the essentials of safety and a little technique, we took them into the bay to start them off …