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| Captain's Update, 16/08 |
All,
The holiday season is now upon us with various crews out taking advantage of the summer evenings. Nick Rowett continues to coach the squads at weekends and we've been encouraged by the number of you training in shed which can only bode well for the new season. A few of the senior squad also made their way northwards to race at Peterborough regatta.
Peterborough Summer Regatta
The regatta weekend got off to an unfortunate start with the news that Gav had injured himself during a squatting exercise on Friday. A few last minute calls didn't yield a sub so sadly the Novice 4+ had to scratch. Of the handful of seniors remaining, the IM2 2- (Bart/Stu) made the 1000m final on Sat finishing 3rd and followed that up with a 2nd place finish in the 500m final on Sunday. Matteo was beaten by a canvas in the final of the IM2 1x on Sunday whilst the Novice 2x (Lee/Stu) followed up their 2nd place at Neots with a 2nd place in the final at P'boro. A weary bunch returned last night, largely satisfied with the weekend's racing despite the lack of pewter.
And that concludes the summer regatta programme. It's been a rewarding season for some but for others it's been one of frustrating close-calls and we'll want to rectify that next year. The pewter will return, I have no doubt.
Race fees
Now that the regatta season is at an end can everyone please clear their racing debts by the end of August at the latest. As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, regatta fees and coaching come out of the same pot. We're looking to employ a new coach in September and we'll need the funds to pay them. Some of you owe over GBP50 with a few of you owing close to GBP100 and that's a fair amount of coaching time lost if you don't pay up.
The Bank of Byrne circulated the latest monies owed list last week so please settle up in time for the new season.
New season
A brand new 2010/11 training and availability spreadsheet for the senior squad, with input from our previous coach Kirsty Simpson, will be circulated in the next week so you can get filling in your availability from September (a new novice spreadsheet will follow a bit later). A number of you will be moving up from the novice to senior squad so you'll have a new training programme. That includes earlier outings at weekends with the new novice squad for 2011 beginning outings at 10/10:30am in Sept.
I will also be circulating a questionnaire in the next couple of weeks giving each of you the opportunity to state what you want out of the coming season and in particular whether you are available to train and be considered for selection for the Fours Head on Sunday 15 November. Responses will remain confidential and amongst other things will help us know where to pitch the level of training over the course of the year.
Pairs Head - Saturday 16th October
Many thanks to those of you who got back to me about the Pairs Head. Pairs Head crews will be as follows:
IM1 2- Dave French and Nick Bates in the Benrath.
IM2 2x Matteo Perucchini and Luke Gannon in the 1890.
IM2 2- Barry Thomas and Andy Naylor in Ye White Hart.
Masters 2x Chris Shea and Andy Rawkins in the Hamhaugh Island
Masters 2x Mike Condron (AKRC) and Neil Jackson in Neil's own 2x
Mixed IM2 2x Rob Henderson and Becky Rangecroft (BBLRC) - boat to be sourced by crew
From this point on, the club pairs and doubles will be set up to accommodate the above crews and should not be re-rigged or have the steering changed. If anyone wants to take out any of the above club boats it must be with the prior approval of the Captaincy and Pairs Head crew concerned.
Boat lights for evening rowing
You would have all seen Neil Pickford's email a few weeks back advising on boat lights. Sunset is now before 20:30 so all crews boating from 18:30 must have lights. Crews boating before then should still perform the usual risk assessment and take lights if the evening is particularly overcast. In September, all evening outings must have boat lights. Unaccompanied evening outings will conclude towards the end of that month.
Fleet
The Alan Cox 4- is now de-rigged to be sent away for a full hull refurbishment. That leaves the Paul Rawkins as the main 4- for the next few weeks so if you are planning on taking it out, check with me to avoid a clash with other crews.
Dates for the Diary
See you in the week.
Stuart
| Bungalow Dinghy Update, 02/08 |
You will remember that the Foley family have renovated the wooden boat at the bungalow to an almost brand new condition. This was done in memory of a young family member, who loved visiting the bungalow and had died tragically last year. It was agreed in committee that as a thank you the young woman who organised and oversaw the renovation should be allowed the use of the dingy for a charity row next month. We also said that we would mention the charity on our website.
The charity is "Music for Youth" and the web address is www.justgiving.com/oxfordtoshepperton.
Please give generously (particularly if you've ever been ferried across the river in search of a Costa).
| Bungalow BBQ, 02/08 |
This year's Bungalow BBQ is on the 21st August. Here's the flyer (PDF).
| Stu's First Captain's Update, 02/08 |
Dear All,
Well, we've emerged from the captaincy handover week relatively unscathed and thoughts are starting to turn to the new rowing season. Those at the OGM last Tuesday will have heard me speak briefly about what the new captaincy wants to do over the next year. In a nutshell, we want to achieve the following objectives:
Before all that though, we have another 6 weeks or so of summer rowing (let's hope this weather holds), which started with a trip to back to Henley yesterday.
Henley Town and Visitors Regatta (31 July)
An IM1 4-, IM2 4+, and an IM2 1x made the trip to HT&V but sadly no pottage was to be had. The 4- lost out in the IM1 final to Thames Tradesmen whilst the IM2 4+ were pipped in their semi by a few feet. Neil Pickford competed in his IM2 scull and put in a great effort against Henley Royal Regatta-standard opposition from Marlow but was sadly edged out at the death. No tug-of-war this year so no bonus event for Cygnet to clean up in sadly.
Coaching in August
Nick Rowett has agreed to coach both the senior and (ex)novice squads this month starting this coming Saturday. For those of you who don't know Nick, he's a professional rowing/sculling coach who coached at Tideway Scullers School for many years and Cygnet on occasion before taking his expertise abroad. He'll be heading back out to resume coaching in South Africa in September and we are lucky to have him for the next few weekends. For those of you who want coaching this month, just make sure you've added your availability to the August spreadsheet or you'll miss out.