Captaincy update – August 2025 (from your new captain)

Hello All,

I hope we are all enjoying an extremely well-earned rest!

As my first email to the wider group, I just wanted to share some initial thoughts and plans for the upcoming months. First of all I would like to thank Dom and the outgoing captaincy for all of the hard work they have put in over the last year, and time spent helping me in the last few weeks – it's been thoroughly appreciated. We are certainly in a great place as a club and I really hope we can build on this and achieve even more success this upcoming year.

On this topic, I would like to congratulate all of the squad that raced at Henley T&V regatta, where there was some very competitive across the board. A particular congratulation to Tom and Dom in the 2- who beat the RAF, and won their category. 

Looking forward to the upcoming months, we please look at the following key dates for your diary and sign up on fitclub accordingly. Note, the sooner you're able to sign up we will be able to set up some crews - and as shown across the summer, apparently training together makes you go faster!

• Scullers Head 28^th September
• Pairs Head 4^th October
• Upper Thames Head 26^th October
• Fours Head 15^th November
• Vets Fours Head 16^th November
• Walton Small Boats Head 6^th December
• Plum Puddings 13^th December
• Quintin Head 25^th January
• Head of the Nene 7^th February
• Henley Fours and Eights Head 14^th February
• Hammersmith Head 28^th February
• Head of the River 28^th March

These are head races that we have identified as possible targets to make the Head racing season slightly more exciting, and less "Shed based" - and as some are off Tideway we will have to plan accordingly. Please sign up on FitClub, and we can get planning.

On the topic of the shed, training will return a proper from the first week of September. We will move our midweek sessions back into the shed - with weights on Mondays and an "exciting" erg on Wednesday. As long as the weather complies, we will keep our weekend sessions on the water where possible. Its worth mentioning, a key reason why there was success at Cygnet during the regatta season, and one of our best HORR results for years, was due to the hard work put in in the Shed, so i encourage everyone to build on this platform and put in the effort this Autumn and Winter. 

Other dates for the diary

• End of season dinner
  You should have already signed up for this, where on Fri 29th August will be our end of season dinner to come together as a club and celebrate our success this year.
• Scamp 5^th - 7^th September
  Its looking likely, due to sign ups, that we wont go to the Bungalow but instead go for a long row to Richmond and back, please look out for further comms on this.
• Learn to Row
  LTR is back for 6 weeks, from the 8^th of September, where we will need volunteers to help support our new intake of LTR participants - please look out for further comms on this.
• Team Ordinary Session
  A crew of civil servants rowing the Atlantic, are coming down to our boat house so we can help them with rowing technique/take them for an outing. Please sign up on fitclub to help out. Date: Wednesday 10^th September, AM. Please see the link to their website - The Oardinary Crew
• Sun 14th September - Cygnet and BBL joint club day
  This will involve some mixed races and a BBQ. Further details to follow.

Thank you to anyone who has got this far down the email - I will endeavur to be more succinct going forward.

I hope these restful few weeks has made everyone as excited about the year ahead as I am.
Thanks
Jordan