Aberdeen Sprint Regatta: Reminder that entries close for the Aberdeen Sprint on Sunday (3rd September) at 12 noon. Full details on the Committee of the Deewebsite.
October GB Trial: Early warning of a GB trial in Scotland on the same weekend as the first GB trial in Boston (21/22 October). Full details will be posted in a couple of weeks but the likely location will be Inverness, the event will be for both Juniors and Seniors and the format will be 2k ergo test on the Saturday and 5k time trial in singles on Sunday.
Single scull for sale: See the sales and wants page for more information.
29 August
Rowing Action Deadline: Contributions for the forthcoming issue should be with the editorial team as soon as possible (official deadline is the 31st, but a few days grace will be given if you let the team know items are on their way). As Ailie Ord is heading to the World Masters shortly, please send articles to Peter Morrison for editing purposes; any photographs should still be sent to Ailie.
Stirling Rowing Club Clubhouse Centenary: Members of the rowing community, their family and friends are invited to Stirling Rowing Club on Saturday 16th September where the Centenary of the opening of the Clubhouse will be celebrated. Juniors will display their skills on the water from 1pm to around 2.45pm with some fun events and scratch races. Within the upper Clubhouse there will have a multi visual history of the last 153 years highlighting people and events that have influenced the Club. There will also be a general rowing memorabilia section. For younger visitors there will be a children's corner. A display board will give an insight into the many future plans and projects. Stirling RC's late President William Girvan will be remembered with a room naming ceremony. The afternoon will culminate at around 4pm with a ceremony to acknowledge young members and their achievements. Light entertainment will be provided during the afternoon. Teas, coffees and light refreshments will be on sale during the afternoon.
If you have any Stirling Rowing Club (formerly Stirling Amateur Boating and Swimming Club) photographs, press cuttings, memorabilia etc that you think may of interest please contact Gordon Watson initially at watsons23[at]tiscali.co.uk with your name and contact phone number and Gordon will contact you directly to discuss. Our deadline is Wednesday 6th September for material to be received.
28 August
2007 Regatta Dates: Sandy Walker, Convenor of Racing Control, would like to remind clubs that applications for 2007 regatta dates should be with John McKinney by 1 September.
2006 SARA Awards Dinner: The dinner has been organised for the 4th November in Aberdeen to coincide with the Aberdeen Fours and Small Boats Heads and to bring it nearer to the achievements that the awards celebrate. Information on nominations for awards will be available later this week; information on the dinner is available now (link now corrected).
Loch Faskally Coaching Weekend: Details and a booking form for Faskally (evening of 20th October to 22 October) are now available. This is the 16th annual coaching weekend, accommodation will again be at the Faskally Home Farm Caravan Park. There will be a full programme of coaching both on and off the water along with a Saturday evening meal and entertainment.
27 August
World Championships: Bronze medal for Linsday Dick - congratulations to Lindsay Dick of Glasgow Rowing Club who was in the bronze medal winning womens lightweight quad. The GB heavyweight quad including Katherine Grainger of St Andrew Boat Club finished second to Russia in a very close race.
Photographs: Snapper Ron has been busy again. Photos from the Commonwealth Regatta and from a rather wet Inverness Sprint Regatta are now on the Committee of the Dee website. Results from Inverness are also available.
Racing Calendar Updates: Two changes to the racing calendar. The rescheduled Nithsdale Regatta has sadly had to be cancelled due to lack on entries. Into the head race season, St Andrew BC will not be running their head race in mid-October.
11 August
Celtic Watersports Games: Photograph of the Scottish Coastal Rowing Team who took part in the recent Celtic Watersports Festival in Scotland. More information on coastal rowing can be found on the Coastal Rowing page.
Holiday Time: There will be a short break in service on the SARA website due to the Webmaster's holidays. If you have any news, items for sale, etc, please email them in and I'll put them on the site when I return.
10 August
The Race for the Silver Rudder: This saturday will witness the re-establishment of 'The Silver Rudder', a race between Clyde ARC and St Andrew BC. This Glasgow/Edinburgh clash will
take place at Strathclyde Park, and will feature reserve races as well as the main event where mixed eights battle it out for the title first contested in the 1930's. Proceedings start at 11am and both clubs invite spectators to lend their support.
Clyde Sprint Regatta: Correction: the closing date for entries is Saturday 19th August, not the week before as stated on Notice of Regatta.
World Championships: The full team lists for the World Champs at Dorney Lake are now on-line at the FISA website. Scottish representatives will include Katherine Grainger in the women's quad, and Lindsay Dick of Glasgow Rowing Club, who will be rowing in the stroke seat of the women's lightweight quad.
Commonwealth Regatta Photographs: A sizable number of photographs were taken by David Collie at the regatta. These will be put up on the website towards the end of the month (apologies for the delay, caused by the Webmaster going on holiday!).
9 August
Aberdeen Sprint Regatta: Details of the Aberdeen Sprint on 9th September are now posted on the Committee of the Dee website. Snapper Ron is sorting through his pictures from the Commonwealth Regatta and they should be published on the same site shortly.
8 August
Clyde Regatta: Information for the upcoming Clyde Regatta is now available - notice and entry form.
Commonwealth Games Bid Team congratulate Scottish Rowing: The Director of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 Bid Team has sent a note of congratulations on the excellent Rowing
Championships last weekend. He notes that he "very much enjoyed attending the event and the dinner... The rowers were a credit to sport in general." For those who were at the dinner, photos are on the Tideway Slug website.
Sales and Wants: Coxed four for sale and coxed quad wanted on the Sales and Wants page.
6 August
Commonwealth Regatta: Plenty of exciting racing today, with Scotland winning four more medals, including two golds. Full results, including split times, for both days are online in pdf format, along with the medals table. Scotland were fourth overall, behind England, South Africa and Canada, an excellent result for Team Scotland.
The first race of the day was the men's lightweight fours, where South Africa, winners of the heavyweight fours yesterday, again dominated. They were followed by the women's lightweight single, which was won by Canada. The Northern Irish sculler overtook the English sculler in the last 500m to claim the silver.
The lightweight doubles gave Scotland their first medal of the day, with the Logan brothers in the Scottish crew. They gave a dominant performance to add the gold medal to their Nat Champs and HIR medals, leaving the English and Welsh to fight for the silver and bronze medals. No Scots in the women's lightweight pairs, which was won in an exciting race by Northern Ireland, coming from behind to take the gold ahead of the English pair.
Second Scottish medal of the day went to the men's coxed four, who took silver behind England, comfortably ahead of Wales in bronze medal position. Women's quads was a two boat race, with the boats close all the way down. England won from Canada at the line. The men's lightweight scull race split into two groups early on. South Africa won, ahead of Northern Ireland and England. Doug Murray of Scotland sculled strongly to close the gap on the leading three and finish in fourth place.
The women's lightweight double were back in action today, after their silver medal win in the lightweight quad yesterday. England led from the start, with the Scots chasing Canada hard, and wining the bronze medal. Fourth medal of the day came in the men's lightweight pair. Dave McNeill and Dougie Taylor put in their usual strong start and then pulled away from the field to take a convincing victory ahead of Northern Ireland and England.
No Scottish crews in the final eights races, but some exciting racing. There was added interest in the women's eight in the form of an Australian/Canadian composite, racing as a guest entry. The Welsh eight blasted off the start, but were overhauled at midway by the English crew, who led to the finish. In the men's event, the race for gold and silver was tight, with the boats only half a length apart approaching the line. Canada took the gold, with England second and Wales third.
Photographs: Top: Scotland Men's Lightweight Double winning the gold medal. Middle: Jonny and Chris Logan. Bottom: Dougie Taylor and Dave McNeil, winners of Men's Lightweight Pairs. Photos J Wherrett.
5 August
Commonwealth Regatta Results: Another major regatta has come to Strathclyde Park, and again conditions have been favourable with mainly warm, sunny weather and a slight tailwind. On day one of the regatta, ten races took place, with Scotland medalling in four. The full results are online.
There was no Scottish interest in the first two races of the day, where England took the gold in the women's double scull, with a dominant performance. In the men's single, New Zealand's Nat Cohen took an early lead, but was pressed strongly by England's Ian Lawson in the final 500m. The first of the Scottish crews were the women's pair of Steph McDowell and Ellie Dorman, who have already won gold at Nat Champs and HIR. They were ahead of the home nations throughout the race, but were unable to catch the Canadian pair who took gold 4 seconds ahead of the Scots. In the men's coxless pair, South Africa's World and Olympic medalists, Cech and Di Clemente, led from the start, to take the gold medal.
Scotland had crews in both the men's and women's lightweight quads. In the women's race, the Scots put in a massive push to try and catch the English crew, but despite reducing the gap, finished in the silver medal position. The men's race was incredibly close all the way down. At 500m, the English held the lead, with the Scots close behind and the Welsh gaining. In the last metres of the race, the fight between Scotland and Wales was intense, with the final result being Wales silver and Scotland bronze, by a mere 0.02 seconds.
Photograph: Scotland's silver medal winning women's lightweight quad. From left: Maureen McGarvey, Gillian Toal, Ingrid Hansen, Mary Ann Chalmers. Photo courtesy of G Williamson.
No Scots in the women's single or men's double scull. The women's race was won by Rachel Loveridge of England, gaining her second gold of the day, ahead of Wales's Rebecca Rowe. The men's double was also won by England, with Northern Ireland picking up the silver medal. The penultimate race of the day was the men's coxless four. South Africa were a class act, leading from the front, with a crew who are doubling up between lightweight and heavyweight. There were a few steering issues from the New Zealand four, but fortunately they did not impede any of the other crews. Canada and Australia took the silver and bronze behind South Africe, with the Scots in fifth place. In the final race of the day, the women's coxless four, England and Canada battled all the way to the line, with England crossing in front. Scotland rowed strongly to win the bronze medal, well ahead of the Australian four.
Day two features five more Scottish crews - the Logan brothers in the lightweight double, the women's lightweight double of McGarvey and Chalmers and men's lightweight double of McNeil and Taylor, both winners at HIR, along with the men's coxed four and the men's lightweight single.
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Celtic Watersports Games: Photograph of the Scottish Coastal Rowing Team who took part in the recent 
The first race of the day was the men's lightweight fours, where South Africa, winners of the heavyweight fours yesterday, again dominated. They were followed by the women's lightweight single, which was won by Canada. The Northern Irish sculler overtook the English sculler in the last 500m to claim the silver.
The lightweight doubles gave Scotland their first medal of the day, with the Logan brothers in the Scottish crew. They gave a dominant performance to add the gold medal to their Nat Champs and HIR medals, leaving the English and Welsh to fight for the silver and bronze medals. No Scots in the women's lightweight pairs, which was won in an exciting race by Northern Ireland, coming from behind to take the gold ahead of the English pair.
Second Scottish medal of the day went to the men's coxed four, who took silver behind England, comfortably ahead of Wales in bronze medal position. Women's quads was a two boat race, with the boats close all the way down. England won from Canada at the line. The men's lightweight scull race split into two groups early on. South Africa won, ahead of Northern Ireland and England. Doug Murray of Scotland sculled strongly to close the gap on the leading three and finish in fourth place.
The women's lightweight double were back in action today, after their silver medal win in the lightweight quad yesterday. England led from the start, with the Scots chasing Canada hard, and wining the bronze medal. Fourth medal of the day came in the men's lightweight pair. Dave McNeill and Dougie Taylor put in their usual strong start and then pulled away from the field to take a convincing victory ahead of Northern Ireland and England.
Scotland had crews in both the men's and women's lightweight quads. In the women's race, the Scots put in a massive push to try and catch the English crew, but despite reducing the gap, finished in the silver medal position. The men's race was incredibly close all the way down. At 500m, the English held the lead, with the Scots close behind and the Welsh gaining. In the last metres of the race, the fight between Scotland and Wales was intense, with the final result being Wales silver and Scotland bronze, by a mere 0.02 seconds.
