BUSA Results: Results from the BUSA Regatta are now on the National Watersports Centre. 10 Scottish crews made the finals, with medals going to Glasgow University (gold in mens lwt 2x, bronze in womens junior 2- and womens lwt 4-) and Edinburgh University (silver in womens junior 4+).
28 April
Rowing Action Deadline: The published deadline for articles for the next Rowing Action is 30th April. Ailie Ord will, as usual, grant a few days grace (6th May) providing she knows what is coming!
Sculling Riggers Lost from SPR: Stirling Rowing Club returned from Strathclyde Country Park minus a set of scull riggers. The riggers were last seen in the external boat racking area on Sunday.
Would clubs please check if they a have a "spare" set of riggers and contact Gordon Watson on 01786 471978 if they have.
27 April
Death of William 'Widdy' Girvan: Stirling Rowing Club is deeply saddened to announce that their Club President, Mr William 'Widdy' Girvan has passed away. At age 84, Widdy was still a keen member of the club and much loved and respected by all the members. Widdy joined the club at the very early age of 13 as a cox and stayed involved in rowing for over 70 years. Widdy was looking forward to being involved in Stirling Rowing Club's centenary celebrations this year as the club president and oldest member. He will be fondly remembered and sadly missed.
Trailer Stolen: Strathclyde University BC have had their trailer stolen. It wasn't at the University playing fields at Stepps the Friday before SPR and SUBC have since been informed that it was taken on 15th April at 10pm. It is a De Graff trailer with 12 spaces and has a red handbrake cable. If anyone has been offered this trailer or knows anything could they please contact Caroline Davis on 07759 559500.
Regatta Organising Committee Meeting: The date and time of the next ROC meeting is Tuesday 2nd May, Calder Room, Watersports Centre, Strathclyde Country Park at 7pm. The main items on the agenda will be a review of Strathclyde Park Regatta and the planning of the Scottish Championships.
Anyone interested in helping out with the work the Committee does will be most welcome at the meeting.
Commonwealth Regatta website: The regatta is being held at the beginning of August at Strathclyde Park - the event website has now gone live.
Photograph: Mens Open Coxed Fours, photo courtesy of Ron Wallace.
BUSA Regatta: The draw for the BUSA regatta (next weekend) is now on-line. 58 Crews from 6 Scottish Universities (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt and St Andrews) are taking part over the 3 days.
Goodbye to John McArthur, National Coach: The SARA will be having an informal evening to mark John McArthur's departure from his current role as National Coach. This will be on Saturday 13th May and will be in Glasgow City Centre, venue to be confirmed. If you would like to join them, please contact Jo Ramsay.
Photograph: Heriot Watt University BC appear to have forgotten a few vital pieces of equipment as they collect their silver medals in the Scottish Universities Champs Mens 2nd 8. Photo courtesy of Lee Boucher.
25 April
Clydesdale Regatta: Reminder that entries for the Clydesdale main season regatta close on Saturday 29th of April at 6pm.
New club website: Loch Lomond ARC have a new website (still under development). Details for LLARC and all other clubs on the Contacts page.
SPR Results: The results from the weekend's racing are now available. The conditions on Saturday were windy, with the usual problems with stakeboats at the 1km start resulting in some races being started off a free start. Sunday brought a cross-tail wind and sunny weather and racing ran like clock-work all day.
Missing blade: Glasgow University BC have lost one of their blades - a Concept 2 sweep blade, painted yellow with black squares. If anyone has seen it, could they please contact Johanna Murphy (tel 07851 604 689).
20 April
SPR Travel and Weather: Reminder that there are roadworks in on the M74 at Junction 5 (Raith) which will affect traffic coming from the M74 and the A725 to Strathclyde Park. Those driving to Strathclyde Park during busy times of the day may need to leave extra time to get through the contraflow.
Weather reports are showing a typically wide range of weather for the weekend. Don't forget your waterproofs and your sunscreen.
New umpires: Three trainee umpires recently took their umpiring exams, complete with table top racing practical. Congratulations to Gordon Henderson, Andrew McConnell and Jo Wherrett on passing their exams; all will be joining the umpiring team at SPR this weekend.
SPR - Volunteers Needed: Reminder that all clubs are required to volunteer two individuals for each day to help with timing and stakeboat duties. Names of volunteers should be sent to Duncan Walker or John McKinney by 7pm today.
SARA Equality Policy: This policy is now linked from the downloads page.
GB Trials: Katherine Grainger completed her run of wins yesterday, finishing a clear first in the womens 1x trial. Lindsay Dick of Glasgow RC (supported by SportScotland) finished an excellent third overall in the women's lightweight trials.
17 April - Urgent Notice
Urgent Notice to all Scottish Clubs From the Regatta Organising Committee
Strathclyde Park Regatta 22-23 April 2006 HELP!! HELP!! HELP!!
Due to a last minute let down from our normal source of Stakeboat and Timing Personnel, we require all competeing clubs to volunteer two individuals for each day to help with these functions. It need not be the same two people all day, but cover is required for the duration of the regatta.
The ROC will continue to pursue other avenues this week in the hope that another source of personnel may be found, but at this late stage appeals to the Clubs to be prepared to provide assistance.
Volunteers should be 14 years or older and will be provided with life jackets and waterproof gear (though if you have some, do bring it!). They should be dressed warmly (no Wellington Boots), have a change of clothes and are advised to wear sun cream on faces, even if it does not seem particularly sunny. Packed lunches will be provided.
Manning requirements:
At the 2000m start 16 people are needed to operate the moving pontoons. In addition 6 people are required to man the timing boxes. For the 1000m course 8 people are needed to hold the boats and 2 for the timing boxes. Full operational and safety instructions will be given to those who volunteer.
Please send the names, contact numbers and email addresses of your volunteers by 19:00 on Wednesday 19th to Duncan Walker holmhurst@btinternet.com, 01505 612495 or John McKinney john.mckinney1@ntlworld.com, 01505 345478.
A rota will then be formulated and sent out by email where possible.
Thank you.
Ailie Ord
Chairman
17 April
SPR Draw: The provisional draw (pdf and excel formats) for SPR and information for competitors are now available; please be sure to read these. Clubs wishing to apply to hire boats from the NRA fleet should complete this application form and return it by 6pm on Wednesday 19th April.
News from GB Trials: Information from a report on the BIRO website - Katherine Grainger won her semi-final today, Lindsay Dick and Daniel Harte both finished in second place in their semi-finals. All three will be racing in the finals at tomorrow's second day of trials.
Single for sale: 75kg Eton Phoenix single for sale - if anyone's interested, it will be at SPR this weekend.
Gent Spring Regatta: In the first of two regattas in Gent this spring, Scottish rowers have won a number of medals. In Saturday's senior events, Chris and Jonny Logan (Glasgow University BC) won gold in Mens Lwt 2x and Chris Logan won silver in Mens Lwt 1x; in the junior events, Tom Hunter (ASRA) won bronze in Mens J18 1x. On Sunday, the Logan brothers repeated their win in Mens Lwt 2x and ASRA won bronze in WJ18 4-.
16 April
Gent Regatta Trailer: Scottish Rowing will be taking a trailer to Gent Regatta (6th/7th May). If anyone would like to enquire about space on that trailer, please contact Fiona Thomson or Gary Bain.
GB Trials: Final trials for the GB squad take place in Hazewinkel, Belgium on Monday and Tuesday next week. Four Scots are taking part: Katherine Grainger (St Andrew) in the women's single scull, Lindsey Maguire (Birmingham Uni) in the women's pairs, Lindsay Dick (Glasgow RC) in the women's lightweight single and Daniel Harte (London) in the men's lightweight single.
14 April
Birmingham University at Strathclyde Park: 70 or so people from Birmingham University arrive today for a weeks training camp. They will be using some of the NRA boat fleet as well as their owns boats, and are aware that clubs are likely to be using NRA boats over the weekend. As they are new to Strathclyde Park and may not know how everything works, please help them out if they have any questions.
13 April
SARA Annual Awards: Nominations for the the SARA Annual Awards can now be made; the deadline for sending these is 20th May. The annual dinner will be held in Edinburgh on Saturday 3rd June.
Ex-Dundee rower in New York Marathon: Dave Shea, an ex-Dundee University BC president, has taken a break from rowing and will be running the New York Marathon in November. He is running on behalf of the Alzheimer's Society and has an ambitious target of money to raise. Alzheimer's is a serious and widespread disease which affects over 750,000 people in the UK and Dave would greatly appreciate any help the Scottish rowing community can offer.
Website and Email maintenance: This is due to be done today. The website may be down for a short while. If anyone does not get a reply to an email sent to a scottish-rowing.org.uk address, please resend it.
Website and Email maintenace: This has been rescheduled for later this week.
SPR entries reminder: You have two days left to get your entries in for the first regatta of the 2006 season. Information and entry forms are on the right hand side of this page.
North-East Regatta: Details for this regatta, to be held on the 13th and 14th of May on the River Dee, are now on the Committee of the Dee website.
6 April
Transport to Belfast needed: Is any club intending to race at Queens University Belfast regatta on 29 April? If so, would they be able and willing to transport two ergos
(return trip). If you could help, please contact Richard Watters.
Strathclyde Park Regatta: Reminder that entries close next Wednesday (12 noon on the 12th March). As usual, the organisers would be delighted if all clubs could type up their forms and make sure all the information is correct. Proof of posting will not be accepted as proof of receipt and the organisers strongly recommend the use of Royal Mail Special Delivery.
Website downtime: Maintenance will be carried out on the SARA website and email accounts next Monday and they are likely to be unavailable at some point during the day. If anyone doesn't get a response to any emails sent, please resend them.
Strathclyde Park Housekeeping: Yesterday morning all kit (including water bottles) which has been abandoned in the boat bays was scooped up and put into yellow plastic boxes. Any rower who thinks they have left something here has until the morning of Monday 10th to collect it. Anything not collected will be put into a skip later on Monday.
4 April
Glasgow Schools Spring Indoor Rowing Championships: The first Glasgow schools rowing event in more than 25 years took at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School on the 29th March 2006. Over 150 pupils from eleven schools entered ten events with medals being awarded to the top three in each category. The outstanding individual performance of the afternoon came from G Clelland (12, Whitehill School) who covered 516 metres in his 2 minute race. This distance would have placed him in bronze medal position at last years British Championships.
St Thomas Aquinas - who have over 180 pupils taking part in indoor rowing at the school, won the Victor Ludorum and also topped the medal table with 3 golds. In second place on the medal table was St Mungo Academy with Shawlands and Notredame third equal. The next Glasgows Schools event will be the Summer Championships on the 21st June 2006. Full results will be available on the Glasgow Schools project website www.totally-rowing.co.uk.
2 April
SPR Boat Hire: Clubs are reminded that hire requests for Strathclyde Park Regatta should only be submitted AFTER the draw has been published. It is assumed that clubs are trying to provide their crews with boats using their own resources before applying to SARA to try to hire boats. As in previous years, priority will be given to clubs who do not have boats of the appropriate class. The application form for boat hire will be put on the website at the same time as the draw; clubs will then have until 6pm on Wednesday 19th April to complete and return the form.
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Goodbye to John McArthur, National Coach: The SARA will be having an informal evening to mark John McArthur's departure from his current role as National Coach. This will be on Saturday 13th May and will be in Glasgow City Centre, venue to be confirmed. If you would like to join them, please contact 
