November 2016 Roundup  

AGM 24th November 

 

The club AGM took place yesterday and the following Committees were approved for 2016-17 season:

 

Management Committee

 

President                       Pete Staddon

Chairman                       Open

Treasurer                       Mike Kelly

Secretary                       Anna Nolan

Bar Manager                  Anna Nolan

Social secretary             Paula Keane

Lounge Manager           Sue Wagner

Membership secretary   Terri Fox

 

Rowing Committee

 

Captain                                Mark Sims

Mens captain                       Jack Rose

Ladies Captain                     Lucy Hart

Mens novice co-ordinator    Martin Seccombe

Ladies novice co-ordinator   Open

Masters co-ordinator            Andrew Hollloway

Entries secretary                  Stan Livy

Junior co-ordinator               Clare wedderburn/Jayne Browning

Water Safety Officer             Mike Green 

 

The club has managed to acquire- thanks to Anna Langridge- some flooring for the weights room. Faye Standley has kindly agreed to manage the installation and any upgrades that we can achieve. She is looking for somebody that is able to level the floor before installation. Is there any member that can help? We will also need to take the weights room out of use for a time but Faye will communicate when we have everything in place to go.

VET FOURS HEAD: November 13th

 

   Under what turned out to be a false assumption about a shorter course a group of CRC masters decided to race Vet Fours head.

  In true masters style the training programme consisted of holidays to Greece and Cuba and a visit to the chiropractor. A total of 5 outings were managed before race day, 3 of which actually had the racing line-up all present. Due to inclement weather the day before a last minute extra session was discarded in favour of an even earlier start.

   Leaving Christchurch before 6 and an unhindered drive up gave time for a cheeky paddle from TSS to UL and down towards Barnes on the dregs of the ebb tide. A quick change later and the Remembrance Day Poppy securely fixed in place and it was time to do battle.

   A multitude of elderly Sunday morning drivers in quads and fours cluttered the tideway, making space for warm up bursts challenging despite politely navigating past a number of boats. A well paced boating time though meant only 5 minutes at the start prior to the 2 minute silence and then it was race time.

 

    On a ripping flood tide, thanks to the supermoon, the first 3 minutes from the Milepost to Hammersmith was pretty lumpy due to headwind vs stream and despite harbour practice CRC struggled to find the rate and rhythm they'd had in training. In a race, bizarrely echoing Vets Head earlier in the year Maidenhead took full advantage of this and over rating CRC by 3 or 4 pips caught up till they were rowing directly through strokeside puddles as the crews exited hammersmith- both crews having already overtaken two other boats. After Hammersmith Maidenhead took the inside Surrey line and continued to erode CRC's advantage drawing level just after St Pauls.

 
Results
 

However...The flatter water and tailwind after hammersmith had allowed CRC to find their rhythm and they were also sitting right in the middle of the stream due to wisely giving the foot to the rower with 8 years tideway experience. The fact Maidenhead drew level was purely due to being on the inside of the bend while CRC had the better boat speed but had to travel the longer path. As the crews moved onto the straight past chiswick Eyot despite continuing to under rate their opponents Christchurch took 2 seats in about 10 strokes with their first planned move and then moved back out to a lengths advantage before slowly edging away towards Barnes Bridge.

  After Barnes Bridge the challenge from Maidenhead evaporated as they unwisely took the outside line of a Hillingdon boat, after Christchurch had in no way washed them down to push them wide before darting inside Hillingdon to take the inside line for the last bend. Whereas in previous years the race has finished at the TSS balcony this year it was some 600m further upriver, this was not lost on the crew as the wheels began to fall off passing Quintin and MAA.

 

After a good (and short) paddle back to TSS, quick derig. provisional results were available before the first cup of tea and toasted sandwich had been finished! Given the exceeding limited prep 2nd place in MasC 4x and an overall placing of 15th was pretty pleasing.

 

The Crew was: Stan Livy, James Reynolds, Rob Standley and Mike Kelly. 

 

Thanks to Andy Galloway for super subbing and to Mike for towing. 

 

 
Photos

Avon Autumn Head

 

The Junior Women raced Avon Autumn head on Saturday 19th November.

In the first Division they placed 3rd in WJ18 4x-.

In the 2nd Division with something to prove they were 22.2s quicker and while nobody turned up to race them in WJ16 4x- their time made them the quickest Women's quad of the day.

The crew was Emma, Lisa, Kiera, Katya

 

Photo: Jayne Browning

 

RESULTS

Kingston Small Boats Head

 

Patrick was Christchurch's sole representative racing in Mas F and  finishing 4th in his category 

KIT ORDER

 

Helen Brad will place a kit order if their is enough demand - Details to here by the 8th of December please. 

 

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Saturday 10th December

 

The CRC Christmas Party is on, Tickets available now from Paula Keane for £5.

 

The best way to recover from racing Walton head earlier in the day!!

 

 

Christchurch Rowing Club, Christchurch, BH23 1HU
01202 484964

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