Royal Chester Rowing Club

This month Duncan Little was interrupted from his painting to make the winning draws watched by our Chairman, Mike McGarva. Thank you, Duncan, but many more thanks are due for your voluntary single-handed repainting, starting with the changing rooms and now spreading to the entrance and beyond. Please make your appreciation known to Duncan.

This month Duncan Little was interrupted from his painting to make the winning draws watched by our Chairman, Mike McGarva. Thank you, Duncan, but many more thanks are due for your voluntary single-handed repainting, starting with the changing rooms and now spreading to the entrance and beyond. Please make your appreciation known to Duncan.

Produced by Jack Mcgarva jr. It is the first in what is intended to be regular club news updates.

Shrewsbury Regatta is usually a happy medal hunting ground for Royal Chester Rowing Club and the 2017 event on Saturday and Sunday was no exception.

Royal Chester senior men’s squad finished a very successful Summer 2017 regatta season by racing two eights in the Thames Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. The first eight had already won the senior eights race on both days at Metropolitan Regatta and the second eight took club eights at Marlow Regatta. Metropolitan and Marlow are two of the most prestigious regattas other than Henley itself and this is the first time a Royal Chester eight had won at Marlow since 1928.

The Royal Chester Rowing Club senior men’s squad travelled to Buckinghamshire at the weekend to race at the Metropolitan Regatta. This is a multi-lane event held over 2 days on the Olympic Rowing Course at Eton Dorney and is seen as a key qualifying event for Henley Royal Regatta. Some of the strongest crews from the UK and Ireland were competing to lift the trophy for this prestigious event.

Royal Chester Rowing Club took two trailers loaded with boats to the Northwich Head of the River Weaver Race on Sunday and return weighed down with winners medals.

Royal Chester Rowing Club women’s squad Travelled to London last weekend for the annual Women’s Head of the river race on the Thames. This national race for eights is over 6.8 kilometers from Chiswick to Putney and saw an entry of 320 crews. This is the same course as the University boat race and both crews dealt well with the challenging conditions.

The annual marathon organised by Boston Rowing Club from Lincoln to Boston on the river Witham is the ultimate endurance challenge and not for the faint heated. There are a number of obstacles to overcome on the 31 mile course besides the obvious fatigue. A seven mile row, dense river weed sapping the energy, carry your boat around a lock, then a further 24 miles to the finish.

As part of the Royals Junior performance related awards for 2016 season best achievers and Squads Trophies were presented at the recent BBQ.