Walton Small Boats Head: December 10th 

Walton Head in the depths of winter can prove challenging with blizzards, rain, balmy sunshine or a last minute move to Dorney lake all possibilities. This year promised torrential downpours and thankfully failed to deliver instead providing a muggy stygian gloom with flat water and little stream. The club had boats racing in all 3 divisions with some success. 

Steve Aldridge commented that "Everyone performed very well, and lots valuable data obtained for the JW group. The performance of the day was from Charlie Brad coming 3rd out of 39 in the WJ15 single. Encouragingly, there is not a great difference in speed within the squad which bodes well when we start racing in a quad."

Thanks to The Captain and Steve for managing boats and loading and The Cheethams for towing.

Photo credit Iain Weir

Club results and category placings below: Full results here 

Mas B 1x Stan            11:53.4 1st

Mas D 2x Rob & Andy      11:59.8 4th

Mas A 1x Stan            12:05.2 3rd

Mas D 1x Rob             12:52.7 3rd

WJ15  1x Charley         13:20.9 3rd

WMasE 2x Faye and Jennie 13:30.9 3rd

WJ16  1x Lisa            13:49.2 9th

WJ16  1x Katya           13:51.7 11th

WJ15  1x Millie          14:04.7 17th

WJ16  1x Emma            14:06.3 13th

WJ16  1x Kiera           14:14.2 15th

MHNov 1x Henry Havins-Caddick 14:55.9 1st

MasF  1x Patrick         15:00.0 6th

WJ15  1x Izzy            15:07.6 35th

MasF  1x Peter           15:43.8 7th

Teddington Small Boats Head 3rd December

Peter Tyson reports:

Teddington was cold so sitting by Hampton Court Palace waiting for the off I was very pleased to been given the North bank allowing a touch of sunlight to warm the bones. With very little wind and a flat river I was able make good time, avoiding the twin obstacles of Ravens Eyot at halfway and misplaced anticipation of the finish at the first bridge and finishing 4th in combined Masters E-G 1x.

Results. 

Christmas Party: December 10th:

The Captain Reports:

A great time was had by all of those at the CRC Christmas party on Saturday. The event was well supported form all sections of the club and marked the start of the festive season. A big thank you goes out to Paula and friends for organising. The J15/J16 girls kicked proceedings off with an entertaining rowing and CRC based quiz. Due to the lack of a microphone they admirably demonstrated their potential as coxswains by drowning out the noise from the bar, with Emma particularly looking to apply for the position of Town Crier. This quiz was inevitably won by a couple of the coaches and their partners, which in no way was due to the fact that the said coaches were the subject of a number of the questions !

While waiting for the results to be announced the party was treated to the club rendition of the 12 days of Christmas by the coaches. Due to the singular tone to be found amongst all the coaches, two members of the Gilbert and Sullivan society were invited to lift the musical aspect of this “entertainment”.

Stretching of the vocal chords in this manner meant that further lubrication was needed, which dictated that participation in the boat race was required. After successfully seeing off the opposition, further recollections become somewhat less clear.

Congratulations to all those that made it to rowing on a sunny and windless Sunday morning, and more training sessions to those that didn’t !!

BOXING DAY REGATTA: 

From 10:00 with the bar opening at 11:00. J16 and above. No rowing ability or experience necessary.

Top class coastal four racing from the bend in the river to the club !!!

BAR OPENING OVER CHRISTMAS

Friday 23rd December open as usual 7pm - 11pm

Saturday 24th December CLOSED

Christmas Day open 12pm - 2pm

Boxing Day open 11am - 3pm

Friday 30th December CLOSED

New Years Eve open 8pm - 1am

Tickets for New Year Available from behind the bar or from Paula Keane (Social Secretary), Jack Rose (Mens Captain) or Anna Nolan (Secretary) £7.50 to include a glass of Prosecco on arrival

Forthcoming races:

The club has entries or provisional entries for the following:

Weybridge Winter Head 21/1/2017

Thames Valley Time Trial 29/1/2017

WISHING YOU A

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!