22/12/08

Ho ho ho!

Anyone wanting to work off the culinary excesses is welcome to contact Kenny about Saturday's 9:00 am outing.

(Use GRCMembers, Bulletin Boards or email GRCCommittee. Ask someone how, if any of this is confusing.)
No more web updates this week.

Merry Christmas!

19/12/08

Even the ducks are doubtful

According to the SEPA site (link on left) the river was going up through the 1.8m level yesterday. With today's rain (and tomorrow's - dearie me!) on top of that, rowing this weekend is looking very doubtful.

Ergos will be at a premium, too - so try to plan your 'outings'!

Still, anything is better than Christmas shopping.

12/12/08

Hibernation

Things will be running on an outing-by-outing basis over the next few weeks - make sure you stay in touch with what's happening and who it's happening with.

• The web site will be updated when possible, but will be patchy over Christmas.
• Use the bulletin boards (above) - ask someone how to do edits, if you want to add a message.
• Use GRCMembers (top right) - go into the web version, it's easier.

Saturday (tomorrow)

• Girls' quad at 8:30
• Women's quad (four?) at 10.
• Other 'beginners' at 10 also. Help out if you can.

10/12/08

Scullers head photos

Spotted on Rachel Quarrell's site:

Photographs from Dodsworld, Salt, Birdman and BigBlade amongst others.

7/12/08

The Winners

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to enter Tubfest! yesterday. (And thanks for nothing if you didn't!)

We had two round-robin divisions in tub pairs, with the winners of those going to the final. Sandy and Clap formed an ad-hoc seeding committee and tried to balance the crews as fairly as possible.
After some hard-fought racing the winners were:

• Bryan and Olivia, coxed loudly to success by Jules.
• The losers in the final were Kristian and Peter (Olivia's dad - ho ho), coxed by Paul.

Meanwhile, Bryan was exhorting maximum efforts from all and sundry in the 300-metre ergo challenge. Best time of the day was produced by Al, but he was deemed ineligible for not paying his entry fee and not being present at the prizegiving.
As a result, joint winners were

• Craig (who did pay!) and Bryan (fix?).

Winners were presented with sparkling presentation tankards, engraved: 'Glasgow Rowing Club - Tubfest 2008'. Thanks to Ronnie for organising those. Thanks also to Sandy for providing mince pies and for making sure that there was a constant supply of those and mulled wine available for contestants in need of sustenance.

Meanwhile...

At the Vesta Scullers Head, Johnny was 6th in Elite Lightweight (32 overall). Mrs Johnny was 2nd in Women's S1 Lightweight, in 245th position. Richard Mathieson is marked as 'did not finish'.

results

5/12/08

Good luck to...

...Johnny and Mrs Johnny who are both competing at the Vesta Scullers Head this weekend. Only other Scottish-based competitors appear to be Richard Mathieson from Aberdeen BC and two scullers from Loch Lomond.

draw

Hard to believe they could pass up Tubfest! for something so trivial!

More photos

Davie Nolan has posted some excellent pictures from near the start of all three divisions of last week's '3 Heads' event. These are in addition to the ones already posted by Niall Darroch and our own Malcolm.

Saturday 6th - TUBFEST!

Update : Now with presentation tankards!

29/11/08

Clyde '3 Heads' race

Our record entry (17 crews) resulted in wins for Johnny in Open sculls (no surprise) and for Johnny and Dan in Res1 doubles (no surprise).
Rumour has it that Malcolm and Russell won only a share of the Vet double - sharing with Pete and Clap... now that IS a surprise!

Well done everybody!

Pictures on Malcolm's Picasa gallery.

Update (1/12/08) - From the SARA web site:

• Clyde Head: Results from Saturday's race are now available. Photographs of divisions 1 and 3 are also on Niall Darroch's Photo website.

More wins. In addition to the wins noted above, I see that Raphael won Novice Sculls in Div2 while Doug Elliot won Res2 sculls in Div1 rowing as SUBC... any others?

A pinch of salt. Perhaps worth mentioning that the faster times in Div3 were after the tide had turned.

28/11/08

Saturday: Clyde '3 Heads' race *

Yes, there are 3 races on tomorrow, at 10:30, 12:30 and 2:30. As a result, our Saturday schedule is different again!

1. 8:30 - Seniors, training - including 'novice' 8 and girls' quad.
2. 10:00 - Crews boating for division 1
3. 11:00 - Juniors (if any)
4. 12:00 - Crews boating for division 2
5. 2:00 p.m. - Crews boating for division 3

If you're racing, make sure you're down early enough to check all your equipment - the people you're racing with might be busy helping with novices!

Start order

The final draw for the Clyde HoRR is now online.

* Title and format © A.Walker 2003

24/11/08

The Captain speaks:

Just a wee congrats to all racing at Clydesdale head. Good results all round and nice to see that GRC won some more pennants... ... ...It'd be good to get some of our new members into boats for one of the competitions in the new year.
Before Clap gets in first, Tubfest would be an ideal place to start.
Al

Tubfest!

22/11/08

The Winners!

A busy day at the club today - lots of boats on the water first thing, then the races:

• GRC 'won' the Vet 8 (#entries = 1). Many thanks to Clydesdale for the lovely pennants. In the same race, the GUBC/GRC composite, featuring Johnny, were 2 overall, just behind EUBC.
• More lovely pennants went to the GRC Vet 'D' crew (Pete Mowforth, Ben Green, Bryan Stewart and Russell Jones, coxed by Paul Ingram), who won the Vet fours, on handicap. The Vet 'C' crew were also beaten by Castle Semple (tut, tut), but Colette had the novel experience of steering her way past five (!) other crews.
• results

19/11/08

This Saturday - Racing and training

We have crews racing in both divisions on Saturday: The crews for division 1 will need to be boated by about 11:30, so the usual schedule will be altered:

• Beginners/novices session: 9:00 am This is for seniors and juniors. There will probably be an eight and some smaller boats. Helpers and other participants are welcome.
• the RACE :
  • Numbers need to be paid for and collected between 10 and 10:45
    
    
  • Division 1 - Vet. 8 boating at 11:15. There is also a GUBC/GRC composite 8.
    Start is at 12:00.
    
    
  • Division 2 - Vet fours boating at 1:45.
    Start is at 2:30.
• the start order
• competitors info

18/11/08

In breach of the usual 'no personal messages on the web site' rule:

Happy Birthday!

Wow... and he doesn't look a day over... 70.

Any better pictures, email the webmaster. This was the only one I could find where he was smiling. Would have preferred one with socks and blazer.

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