Archive News from June 2009

Snippets of news and events from earlier months, as shown originally on the Rowing Service News Page.
Standard results/events/etc not shown.

Monday 29th June 2009
• Mystic Henley players, don't forget to update your picks if you chose crews who didn't quailfy last Friday. And for those who haven't yet had a go, you have until Thursday 3rd July 10pm BST (= GMT+1) to choose who you think is going to win each event at Henley Royal Regatta. Any number of changes can be made before this deadline, and the current choices of each player are visible, for those who want a bit of help working out which crews are quick.
• The Wednesday timetable for Henley Royal Regatta (UK) is out, now confirmed. Further timetables of racing will be published each night from Wednesday onwards, usually at about 8pm-8:30pm.
• Results from the Holland Beker regatta (Netherlands) are out - Drysdale and Knapkova won the men's and women's singles.
• This year Henley Royal Regatta is running alternative results services (UK). These include SMS texts, either to follow specific crews, or to get all the finals results on Sunday. The charge is £3 plus network charges, a flat fee to subscribe to the service, ie after subscription you get your chosen crew's results for nothing right through the regatta. An international number has also been set up, for those who want to receive the SMS results while outside the UK. Details on the link above.
• HRR is also running a Twitter page and an RSS results feed, as well as a text-only results website for hand-helds.
• Results are up from Reading Town Regatta (UK), as well as the previous weekend's Thames Valley Park Regatta results.
• And from the Peterborough J14 Regatta (UK).
• Results from York Summer Regatta (UK, PDF format).

  Saturday 27th June 2009

• The Henley Royal Regatta 2009 draw (Rowing Service plain one-file format for printing) is now up.

  Friday 26th June 2009

• LATE UPDATE - Regatta Radio 87.7 FM (UK) has now got its streaming working, so it can be heard online through the link above (click on 'Listen Live' button).
• Henley Royal Regatta qualifiers later today (from 4pm, UK) - the results are typically put out both at the course and online in groups as they finish checking them, while the rest of the races are running.
• Those taking part in qualifying at HRR shouldn't be surprised to see a trio of Olympic medallists at the start - Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Matthew Pinsent and Katherine Grainger are amongst the Stewards marshalling crews for the qualifying races. Just make sure you do what they say....
• The London Youth Games (UK) has been including rowing (actually sculling) - see here for the overall results, but no sign of the detailed results yet on the official site. However, fortunately the London Youth Rowing blog has the regatta results race by race (about halfway down page).
• Oxford City Royal Regatta (UK) has a new website at www.oxfordcityroyalregatta.co.uk. The regatta is offering a set of sculling blades to the winner of the Junior Victor Ludorum.
• The FISA quick-quote interviews which were taken by Sofia Hasou as short video clips last weekend are available here on YouTube, and also via the Kopilasia Blogspot (Greece, plays all the clips in order if you leave it running.)
• A BBC Health video interview with Sir Steve Redgrave on having diabetes (UK), with a written article there too, with a bit more information than the video clip.
• The Scottish Rowing webmaster (UK) is off on her honeymoon (congratulations!) so won't be making updates until halfway through July. If Scottish clubs etc want anything publicised, they are welcome to send it here instead.
• WorldRowing stories - Great Britain controls adaptive finals, Big boats to Germany, small boats to New Zealand, A German resurge at Munich World Cup.
• FISA's athlete of the month for June is Camilla Vargas (El Salvador) - updated late June.
• The JustGiving saga continues - most of the pages are still available in the old pre-upgrade format via the secure server, so you can see Sarah Winckless and Victoria Wood's original page here, showing most recent donations. However, JustGiving warn that donations made on these versions of the pages are not likely to work, so you are advised to give by phone at the moment until the real page is working properly. There is a number on this main link for a contact who will take phone donations. including Gift Aid.
• Rowing in the news - Rowers back to nationals (Worcester Telegram, USA), Lucky bronze for Indian rowing team (Express Buzz, India), Dilleen and D'Urso selected (Liam Gorman, Irish Times, Ireland), Taking a punt for gold (Logan West Leader, Australia), Babchak earns bronze medal at US Rowing youth nationals (Wilton Villager, USA), The Hoff tries his hand at rowing (Henley Standard, UK), Rower John Scola hopes this could be his lucky year (Wicked Local Rockport, USA, seine rowing), Rumyana Neykova donated her outfit from Beijing (Focus news agency), Women's racing pioneer won't compete this Fiesta (seine racing again, Wicked Local Rockport, USA), Seven Ivy teams gearing up for Henley Regatta (Ivy League Sports, USA), Cat ferry helps New York man in bid to become first to row from Africa to U.S. (Maine Business, USA), Ready to hit the ground running (Jewish Exponent, USA), Rowers' revenge (Los Altos Town Crier, USA), Medal bonanza for Strathclyde rowers (Motherwell Times, Scotland, UK), Quaker Valley's Trovato sisters selected for rowing camps (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, UK), Rowing champion gets Freedom of City (Worthing Herald, UK), Richmond crowned London's regatta champions (Local Guardian, UK), Rowers set a course for charity challenge (Bolton News, UK), Oarsome effort to help heroes (Eastbourne Today, UK), World Cup silver for Hodge (Craven Herald & Pioneer, UK), Parents in 'nightmare' as Helen rows the ocean (Suffolk Free Press, UK), Runcorn Rowing Club enjoy success at regattas (Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News, UK), New supermarket backing regatta (South Devon Herald Express, UK), Campers learn from Scullers (Southwest Florida's Information Leader, USA), Barry Sea Cadets win trophies at regatta (Barry & District News, Wales, UK), Headington complete top treble (Mike Rosewell, Oxford Times, UK), Irish rugby legend inspires NUIG rowers (Galway Advertiser, Ireland), Watch the sun rise with the LSU rowing club (Tiger Weekly< USA), Mount rowers end season at Henley (The Chestnut Hill Local, USA), Jamie is Hereford star in the scull (Hereford Times, UK), QEHS enjoy success on the water (Hexham Courant, UK), Off-colour in sculls (Suffolk Free Press, UK), Double sculler makes right call after exclusion (New Zealand Herald, NZ), Local rowers place at national championships (SnoValley Star, USA).

  Thursday 25th June 2009

• The Regatta Radio 87.7 FM photo gallery has pictures of the Hoff rowing at UTRC (UK). Yes, really. And an interview with Antonia van Deventer about coxing the Hoff in his first attempt at fine-shell rowing, which segues into an interview with the Hoff himself about rowing (MP3). The RR home page has several interviews up as podcasts while they're waiting to get the streaming going (blame BT).
• As well as the FISA coverage (see yesterday) the BBC coverage of the Munich World Cup, with Garry Herbert and Dan Topolski commentating, can be seen on the BBC iPlayer for those inside the UK, until early on Monday 29th June.
• Entries for Talkin Tarn Regatta (4th July, UK) close today at 10pm.
• More photos from the Scottish Championships (UK) from Snapper Ron.
• Photos from Henley Women's Regatta from BigBlade and Wokingham Photographic (the latter with a searchable database of the photographs.

  Wednesday 24th June 2009

• Regatta Radio 87.7 FM (UK) should start broadcasting today, from their portacabin beside Lion Meadow, and covering the whole of the Royal Regatta. Should have started at 10am local time (BST = GMT+1) but there have been problems with BT not putting the streaming line in. Regatta Radio is available within about a 6-mile radius of the Regatta, and online at the website link above once the streaming is activated.
• The fireworks on Saturday of Henley Royal Regatta (UK) are going to happen after all, sponsored by local businesses. They will start at 10pm on Saturday 4th July, and be set off from Sham Hill, which should make them visible in most of Henley and from the riverbank. See the news article (Henley Standard) and the official Fireworks website.
• A reminder that the video action from Munich (and indeed Banyoles) World Cups is available on the FISA website. For those outside Europe it's via Universal Sports (requires Adobe Flash 10), see the Schedules > Rowing if you want the full list of what's available. For those within Europe, see World Rowing live, the same stream on a different server.
• Results from the second round of the UK Surf Rowing League are online (UK, PDF format).
• Berwick Amateur Rowing Club (UK) have got themselves onto a new sports website for Berwick, Active Berwick.
• An update from Sarah Winckless and Victoria Wood (UK) on their Huntington's campaign. I've just had a message from Victoria this morning, explaining that the upgrade of the JustGiving website during the weekend of Henley Women's Regatta rather knocked their efforts on the head. Unfortunately the 'upgrade', which was done without warning to fundraisers, is still very unstable, so they know there are a lot of people who have not been able to donate, and giving on their page dropped from several thousand a day to an average of £150 a day during the regatta. Victoria can't even update the page today to reflect the latest situation. As a result, they are extending the campaign for another week to give people longer to try and get a donation through. If you have been unsuccessful, they say please have the patience to try again as everything is very much appreciated. Prizes - they would also like to announce the winners of the 'top donor' prize and the randomly selected donor prize. The top donor was Di Ellis, who has kindly refused to take the prize (a piece of pristine Olympic kit), which will go instead to Mrs 'Mo' Thomson, as the next in line. The randomly selected donor is Mr B Shelton, who will receive a limited edition Rock The Boat print of the Henley reach. Thanks to everyone who donated.
• Today's rowing in the news - World moves ahead on Burnaby Lake dredging (Burnaby Now, Canada), Plymouth rowing club pay tribute to ex-captain (Plymouth Herald, UK), The next train arriving at Putney Station will be... ...a boat (Wandsworth Guardian, UK), Darren Baker goes for gold (Bradford Telegraph & Argus, UK), Seize the Moment looking for its third straight title (seine boating, Gloucester Times, USA), Regatta draws rowers and spectators to Lawrence on Saturday (Eagle-Tribune, USA), Coaching rejig boosts rowers (Marlborough Express, NZ), Rowing camp on the Savannah teaches kids about unusual sports (WJBF-TV, USA, who are they calling unusual?), MPs beat peers in annual parliamentary boat race (London-SE1, UK, with pictures and a video clip), Rowing lessons on Lacombe Lake (Lacombe Globe, Canada), Using the latest technologies ot make the fastest boats (The Londoner, Canada, about Hudson Boat Works), Calling all rowers (The Aurora, Canada), PEA girls place second at national championship regatta (Exeter News-Letter, USA), Olympic athletes by-pass Aldershot (Get Hampshire, UK - not sure where the rowing was going to be...), Glenburnie's Matusiak helps Queen's win silver (Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada), Epic challenge for school's old boys (Scarborough Evening News, UK), Rowing star smashes targets off the water (This is Local London, UK).
• Older news headlines - Triggs Hodge claims silver at world cup (Local Guardian, UK), Campbell claims second place at world champs (Coleraine Today getting it slightly wrong in the headline, N Ireland), Hard work ahead for Bebington and co (Staffordshire Today, UK), Local crews reach the last 16 at Henley (Peterborough Today, UK), Lightweights make history at GB falter in Munich (Rachel Quarrell, Telegraph, UK), Tom Aggar dominates adaptive racing, and Grainger reclaims her pride (Rachel Quarrell, Sunday Telegraph, UK), River set for annual regatta (Shropshire Star, UK), Local high school rowers prep for FISA junior tryouts (HeraldNet, USA), Dart Totnes off to a triumphant start (South Devon Herald Express, UK), Construction begins (second story, OKC Biz, USA), Demolition of historic club to go ahead (East Day from Shanghai Daily, China), Olympian memories (Waikato Times, NZ), Drysdale earns solid win (New Zealand Herald, NZ), Rowers keep water-skier afloat (Mississauga News, USA), Medals all round for GB rowers at world cup (Maidenhead Advertiser, UK).http://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/gummer_s_how_fell_race_1_571781?referrerPath=sport/">Gummer's How Fell race (North-West Evening Mail, UK), Lanktree sets two marks (second story, Sudbury Star, Canada), Radio station helps fund young rowers (Henley Standard, UK), Regatta entrants include Olympians (Henley Standard, UK), Langridge strokes GB men's four to world cup bronze (This is Cheshire, UK).

  Tuesday 23rd June 2009

• A reminder that Mystic Henley is open, if you want to try and win a luxury hamper by choosing the most number of winners next week at HRR. Open to all (any country), you don't necessarily have to be a rowing expert since the website includes charts showing you which are the most popular picks, so you can use other entrants' guesses to help you choose. Plus, you can change your choices any time up until 10pm on Thursday 2nd July, so that if your early choices are beaten or don't look fast enough, you can swap them for better crews. Supported by Regatta Radio, which starts broadcasting on Wednesday 24th June.
• The draw for Nithsdale Regatta (UK, PDF format) is out.
• Photographs from the Scottish Championships (UK) on David Nolan's Flickr page.
• The provisional Scottish team for the Home International Regatta (UK) was announced last week.
• New gadget - the OarRater, an inexpensive hand-held rowing stopwatch and ratewatch, with an alarm function. It is designed to use an algorithm which reduces human input inaccuracies, apparently.
• Peter Williams, who founded World Ocean Rowing, will be at HRR on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this year. Anyone who wants to meet him to discuss this winter's expedition from the Canaries to Barbados (two places left in the 6-person crew), should email him beforehand, call him on +353868683860, or call Matt on +447843628739.
• Burton Regatta & Sprint (UK) are open on OARA. See the website for more information.
• Helen Kilgallon has a double room to rent during Henley Royal Regatta, in central Henley (UK). Can also be rented during the Festival week. Please call Helen for details, 0791 444 8686 or 01491 575895.
• Sarah Winckless and Victoria Wood (UK) may not have won Henley Women's (Debbie Flood and Jane Hall did that) but they have now raised over £26k for the Huntington's Disease Alliance.

  Monday 22nd June 2009

• A reminder of the list of those needed to qualify for HRR on the official website, plus a full PDF of all the qualifying documents including warnings about not being late on Friday.
• HRR has arranged for Hed Kandi to run two official after-parties at HRR on 3rd and 4th July (UK). Details on the link.

  Sunday 21st June 2009

• Links below have been transferred across from the temporary Twitter account. I'm keeping it open but will not generally use it at the moment unless for backup purposes.
• LM1x Adam Freeman-Pask did Rowing Voice twitters from the finals day at the Munich World Cup.
• More nutters - Acer Nethercott and friends from his time at Univ College Oxford are doing an Ironman Triathlon on 28th June to raise money for the Oxford Cardiac Centre Campaign. Brutal sport - 2.4miles ocean swim, 112mile cycle, plus a marathon run. Bonkers. Click on the link to go to the donations page at JustGiving.
• The Taurus Boat Club website has been updated including the latest newsletter (March 2009) for alumni. Please will all alumni racing at Henley Royal email in which event they're in, so that the main page can be updated.
• An obitary for Martin Clemens CBE, a Cambridge Blue (1938) who was spare for the British Empire Games in the same year, and had what we can only describe as an interesting war (The Times, UK).
• Row For Cora is a group of women racing together to raise awareness of breast cancer in Germany.
• Mystic Henley is open for business.
• Twitterlink for Marlow Regatta (UK).
• Presslinks - Reed and Hodge are second best in Munich heat (Patrick Kidd, The Times, UK), Charity row tempts Winckless out of retirement (Patrick Kidd, The Times, UK), British Olympic champions beaten by New Zealand rivals at World Cup regatta in Munich (Rachel Quarrell, Telegraph, UK).
• Dudley Fletcher was awarded an MBE in the Birthday Honours (UK) for his services to Doncaster Rowing Club.
• The Munich regatta website has a useful crew status page where you can see how they progressed through the World Cup, with links to full race result pages (rubrics in German).
• Results from Henley Women's Regatta in draw format.

  Saturday 20th June 2009

• PROBLEM WITH UPDATING - at the Munich World Cup, and for some reason I can't get FTP access at the course - I have web and email access, but can't update this page. I have only limited options to make changes to any of my webpages. As a result, I'm going to run news on a temporary Twitter account - rowingserviceX - during this weekend, then will transfer back the news notes later.

  Wednesday 17th June 2009

• Bookings are open for the GB Rowing & Junior Commission junior Coaches Conference (19th-20th September, Nottingham, UK), with a galaxy of coaching talent as speakers, including Olympic LM2x coach Darren Whiter. The page on the link has a conference flyer and booking form to download (both PDF). The conference is aimed at all coaches of juniors, any level, to get together, swap ideas and hear how experts do it.
• Results and a Surrey Herald report from Walton & Weybridge Regatta (UK) two weekends ago.
• Results from Saturday and Sunday from the Scottish Championships (UK) are now up (both PDF files), with photos from Niall Darroch.
• Results from Weybridge Ladies' regatta (UK).
• And the results for Loughborough Regatta (UK) are also online now.
• The provisional results for the National Veteran Championships (UK) are online in Excel and PDF format.
• Bridgnorth Regatta (UK) not only has its results up but is crowing about finishing the regatta three minutes early...
• Results from Reading Amateur Regatta (UK) are also up now, and can be separately downloaded as an Excel file.
• Durham Regatta so far just has a list of prizewinners - full results to follow. There is also an article on the regatta and a photo gallery (both BBC Wear, UK).
• Star Regatta's Saturday and Sunday results are both in Word format. The VL went to St Paul's School by a large margin.

  Tuesday 16th June 2009

• The new Cadence Vo3 stroke rate watch is now available through Cadence's local distributors (UK).
• Rowing on Monmouth local TV (UK) - see this MonTV video clip. Start at about 8 minutes 09, just after the taekwondo. Interesting production.
• The Twitter pages for Henley Women's Regatta have been corrected - they will now be http://twitter.com/hwr_gen for general news and http://twitter.com/hwr_res for results.
• Entries close for Bradford Primary sprint regatta at 2pm on Sunday 21st June (UK). OARA entries preferred, but they can also be taken by phone or email. Those who change status at York Summer this coming weekend are requested to phone 01274-563997, or to email regatta@bradfordrowing.co.uk by 6pm latest on that date, so that alterations can be made.

  Monday 15th June 2009

• Rowing Voice vol 3 issue 2 is ready to be downloaded, with reports and pictures from the Banyoles World Cup regatta. Coming shortly - Voice 3-3, a full club/national/feature issue, and then after that, Voice 3-4, a short issue from the Munich World Cup.
• The Pull for Huntington's effort gallops on, now £22,500 and rising (UK). Sarah and Victoria will be selling limited-edition signed Pull for Huntington's t-shirts at Henley Women's Regatta. The minimum donation will be around £10, but to whoever volunteers the largest donation for a shirt there will be an extra prize as a thank-you, to be revealed later.
• The UL beach party is back, on 22nd August (UK). Facebook members can visit the online poster here. Tickets £20 by post or at HWR, Marlow and HRR, also on the door.
• Reports on the Cambridge May Bumps (UK) on the Cambridge Evening News website, plus bumps charts.
• Also in the Cambridge Evening News, Deaglan is the new Light Blue president (UK).
• For unknown reasons the www.rowingone.com FISA database portal page has been out of access a few times recently. However, if you want results or athlete stats, you can still get in via the biographies home page or the the results main page.
• The poster for St Neots Regatta (UK, PDF file) is online.
• Published earlier this year, a review of quite a few rowing papers, condensing their conclusions into "rowing, the ultimate challenge to the human body". You'll need to be able to access PubMed in order to read the full paper - visit the main PubMed page and put 19366367 into the search box - it will bring up the abstract, which is visible to all readers. To buy, click on the Wiley Interscience link, or visit this direct Wiley link and click on one of the full text links to buy access to the article for 24 hours. Those who are members of universities or hospitals may be able to access it through their institution's e-library without paying.
• A new website for rowing video - www.capturedspeed.com.
• A reminder that entries for Henley Royal Regatta close at 2pm BST (=GMT+1) tomorrow (Tuesday 16th June).
• Interesting to see that EventWise is offering "a limited number of Stewards' Enclosure badges available for £50 each including a Pimms voucher" as part of their hospitality package.

  Friday 12th June 2009

• The Henley Women's Regatta draw/timetable is out (PDF, UK). Qualifying races on Friday, junior fours and quads time-trials Saturday morning, and racing from 1pm on Friday and 8:45am on Saturday, with finals on Sunday. See the main website for further information.
• Mystic Henley is running again this year - the Henley Royal guessing game. If you haven't signed up in a previous year, log on to http://henley.rowingservice.com and do so now. Get ready to start picking which crews you think will win in each event from next Wednesday when the entries are published. The rules are simple - you can change your choices any number of times up until 10pm on Thursday 2nd July, at which point everything freezes and we wait to find out who will have guessed best by Sunday evening. Regatta Radio 87.7 FM is once again supporting Mystic, and providing a luxury hamper prize to the winner.
• Henley Royal information from the Copas Partnership (Barn Bar etc, UK).
• The entries are out for the Munich World Cup Regatta (FISA, mostly PDF downloads).
• Entries for Berwick Regatta (UK) close today on OARA. A reminder that the regatta is also running TS15 1x races for new-to-rowing juniors, as an invitation event. Anyone with such juniors email the organisers for an invitation, and they are running men's, women's and mixed fours for new-to-rowing seniors too.
• Ian Neville and Paul from Intersport Racing Shells will be at Durham Regatta (UK) if anyone wants to have information about Len Neville riggers or Intersport boats.
• The Oar Doctor, Russ Thatcher, will be at Marlow and Henley Royal Regattas, running his usual oar maintenance service (UK).
• Baz Moffat and Carla Ashford of Point2Fitness (UK) are running junior fitness camps this summer.

  Thursday 11th June 2009

• A phenomenal response to Sarah Winckless and Victoria Wood's efforts for HWR (see two days ago) - by the end of the first 36 hours they had 3/4 of the money they had hoped to raise in 10 days. The target is now "as much as we can in 10 days", and they are now going to share the money between the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish Huntington's Associations. To be part of the fastest-ever UK rowing charity fundraising effort, visit their JustGiving page. Today and six more days to go - can they make it £10k each in ten days?
• A page for pre-regatta sales of the official Marlow '09 t-shirt (Voga36, UK).
• Draws for Saturday and Sunday racing at Durham Regatta (UK) now up. They are asking rowers to car-share wherever possible as parking space will be in short supply, partly because there are cricket matches on both days.
• Mark Hunter to to receive the freedom of the City of London (ARA, UK). Nice honour, well deserved.

  Wednesday 10th June 2009

• Burglary (UK): Elise Laverick was burgled last Monday and lost, amongst other valuables, her Wingfields prize brooch from 2007. It's in a box but has no date bar on it. I'm pretty sure the prize she's talking about is this one, a clip taken from a picture of 2008 winner Sophie Hosking, being presented with it by Elise. Anyway, Elise would be very grateful if rowers could keep an eye out for it on eBay and in antique shops, in case it can be found. It might even have been chucked or dropped - the burglary happened near Hammersmith Bridge. Fortunately Elise's world and Olympic medals weren't taken, which makes it more likely the thieves may not know much about rowing trophies. Anyone who wants to contact Elise directly, use this address.
• Robert Treharne Jones is inviting expressions of interest from experienced and novice rowing commentators to help out with the Regatta Radio commentary team at Henley Royal (UK). Obviously a knowledge of rowing is required, but training will be offered to those who are rather less experienced. Please contact Robert direct at tjwizard (at) tiscali.co.uk.

  Tuesday 9th June 2009

• Sarah Winckless is briefly coming out of retirement later this month, to row a double at Henley Women's Regatta with Victoria Wood. They're after a wing rigger boat to row in (any offers?) and the whole enterprise is in aid of the Scottish Huntington's Association, for which Sarah is a patron. This is no ordinary charity row, though - they're looking to raise £10,000 in 10 days, starting today and ending just before the regatta. Given that Sir Steve Redgrave's target of £5million in 5 years gave him 3.65 days per £10k, and a much longer period overall, it's a pretty hard target. Anyone who would like to donate to their £10k target can do so today onwards: visit their JustGiving site. More information in their press release.

  Monday 8th June 2009

• Entries for the Barnes & Mortlake Regatta (13th June, UK) close at noon today - see the events page or the PDF poster for details.
• Ironbridge Regatta (27th-28th June, UK) is open for entries on OARA. See the poster> (PDF) for information, or email enquiries to Ian McLellan, regatta secretary.
• Reading University (UK) is holding an open day on Friday 19th June (10am-3pm) which will include details of rowing at Reading in their Sport section (1pm, see General Programme).

  Friday 5th June 2009

• Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC, UK) are going to appoint a new assistant coach. Deadline for applications is 26th June, details in the advert.
• Last weekend Polish students Bydgoszcz raced Oxford and Cambridge on the water outside the Houses of Parliament in London (UK). See the YouTube video for a summary clip of the race (Polish production). Bydgosczcz, in the middle, with Cambridge on their stroke side and Oxford on their bow side, won the race.
• The Kingston Regattas (Kingston Amateur Sat 11th July, Kingston Borough Sun 12th July, UK) are open for entries on OARA. Details on the link above.

  Wednesday 3rd June 2009

• Entries for the National Veteran Championships (UK) close at 6pm today.

  Tuesday 2nd June 2009

• James and David Livingston (UK) did an interview about 'Blood Over Water', their excellent Boat Race 2003 book, on Radio New Zealand. See here for the interview, downloadable as an MP3.
• Bradford Sprint Regatta is open for entries on OARA (27th June, UK). Link is to the PDF poster, and the main regatta page has links to the safety plan and club location.
• Durham's sculling camps (UK) are on 16-21 August (junior residential) and 10-14 August (senior club and performance).
• Peterborough Junior Championships (UK) are open for entries on OARA.
• The Cadence Watch Company has a new Oarsman rowing dress watch which can be used to measure the stroke rate of passing crews....! A women's dress watch is coming shortly.
• Egham Regatta (UK) is open for entries on OARA, slightly different from last year with three divisions set up as different regattas.
• The draw for Walton & Weybridge Regatta (UK) is online, and the regatta organisers are planning to tweet the results on the regatta's dedicated Twitter page as they happen (roughly).
• Berwick Regatta (20th June, UK) is open for entries on OARA. There are discounts on race entry fees for those doubling up.
• A treat for her Maj today (UK) - Pete Reed is collecting his MBE today in full Navy uniform (Word press release from his PR guys - and no, there isn't a 2km record attempt, other than on the water at any regatta he and Hodge attend).

  Monday 1st June 2009

• WorldRowing (FISA) results and rankings from Banyoles (all files downloadable in PDFs).
• GB press links from the weekend - British rowers eye up a golden Sunday (Patrick Kidd, The Times), Britain's finest hit the gold standard (Patrick Kidd, The Times), British squad make glittering start (Chris Dodd, Independent), Grainger tames single sculls discipline with super debut victory (Mike Haggerty, Aberdeen Press & Journal), Britain dominate in Spain (Alex Lowe, Sporting Life), Dominant Britain claim 12 medals at opening World Cup event (Rachel Quarrell, Telegraph), Casey digs deep for semi spot (Robert Treharne Jones, Irish Independent).
• FISA links from Banyoles - The pace picks up at Banyoles, Testing their speed at the rowing world cup, Calm but intense at rowing world cup, First rowing medallists at world cup, It's all about Great Britain, Two Barcelona Olympic medallists in B final.
• Results from Castle Semple Regatta (UK, Excel format).
• Goran Buckhorn has started a rowing history blog (March 2009) after he finished editing his (US) club's newsletter and fancied a new outlet for his writing talents.
• This year's Doggett's Coat & Badge race for apprentice watermen will be on Friday 10th July, at 12:30, between London Bridge and Chelsea.
• Much in evidence at the Banyoles World Cup regatta, the Chungju worlds 2013 bid with an over-produced expensive advert for those with time to waste. Bureaucrat-speak all over. Chungju is in Korea, and apparently "the global mecca of rowing" - the website is in English and Korean.