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28 March

GB v France Match: Information about GB v France Selection Trials on Sunday 28 June is now available on the International page.

Scottish Rowing Newsletter: Contributions for the second issue of the Scottish Rowing Newsletter are invited. All contributions, plus any appropriate photographs, will be most appreciated. Submission of details and photographs should be sent to Roy Sinclair no later than Monday 6th April.

Easter Holidays: The webmaster will be taking a short break - please check the Glasgow Rowing Club website for information about the Glasgow Spring Regatta which takes place on Saturday 11th April.

25 March

Scottish Schools Head Photographs: Photos from Saturday's Head Race can be seen on David Nolan's flickr page and Peter Rankin's pages (page 1, 2, 3).

22 March

Scottish Schools' Head: Results from Saturday's Schools' Head at Dullatur are now available. Winner of the Peter Grieve Memorial Team Trophy for 2009 was Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association.

Head of the River Race: Results from Men's Tideway are also available on the HoRR Website. Fastest Scottish crew were Glasgow Rowing Club, finshing in 36th place. Edinburgh University BC were next fastest, just missing out on a top 100 place, in 101st position.

20 March

Glasgow Spring Regatta: Glasgow Rowing Club invites you to the Glasgow Spring Regatta, which will be held on Saturday April 11th. They hope this year's regatta will build on the success of last year when they first used the 'nearly straight' 1150m course from Cowan's bend to GRC. Events offered include: Open and 'Club' eights, some Veteran Novice categories and a Ju12 event over a 250m course, raced in Alden 1x 'committee boats' (thanks to Clydesdale ARC for providing additional craft for this event). Details are on this website and can also be found on the GRC website. The on-line entry system will be available from Sunday 22 March. Entries close on Sunday 5 April.

Universities Winter League: Dundee University continued the good performances they have shown all year and clinched the Universities Winter League for the first time at the Aberdeen head. They have not only won for the first time but also with a record score, with Edinburgh also beating the previous record. Dundee will be presented with the Thornton Trophy at the Universities AGM held over the Universities Championship weekend.

1. Dundee University		1068		5. Heriot-Watt University		333
2. Edinburgh University		800		6. Strathclyde University		301
3. Glasgow University		677		7. Robert Gordon University		114
4. Aberdeen University		420

16 March

Scottish Schools' Head: The draw for the Schools' Head next Saturday is now available.

Aberdeen Senior Eights and Junior Fours Head: This rescheduled head was held on Saturday on the upstream course on the River Dee in bright sunny conditions into a strong gusty headwind. Fastest time of the day was recorded in Division 1 by Aberdeen BC (Crosland) in MOpen 8s, whilst in Division 2 Dundee University BC MR2 8 was the fastest crew. Aberdeen Schools RA (Steel) won the WR2 8s. In the novice eights events, Dundee University BC won the men's event and Aberdeen BC the women' event. As a result of these wins in Aberdeen, it was confirmed that Dundee University Boat Club were classified as winners of the Winter Universities League for the very first time.

Photograph: Dundee University BC en route to winning Mens Novice Eights. Photo courtesy of Roy Sinclair.

14 March

Club Colours: The list of registered Club Colours is now available on the downloads page. If your clubs colours are missing, please contact Sandy Walker with the required information.

12 March

Scottish Schools Head: Reminder that entries close for the Scottish Schools' Head on Friday 13 March at noon. Entries should be emailed to rhcnoap[at]tiscali.co.uk. The race takes place at 2.00pm on Saturday 21 March.

London Schools Head: Results from the National Junior Sculling Head and the Schools' Head of the River Race are now avaiable from the respective websites. Congratulations go to George Watsons College who followed up a third place in the J17 4x on Monday with a win in the J 4+ on Tuesday.

Child Protection Conference: Tom Hewitt has sent a press release from the child protection conference "Strength in Numbers".

10 March

Development Officer Position, Aberdeen: A new Development Officer position will be available at ASRA from August 2009 - for more information see www.asra.talktalk.net/asra/dev_off_2009.pdf

8 March

Women's Eights Head of the River Race: Seven crews from Scotland look part in yesterday's race on the Tideway, held in good, warm conditions with a slight wind which stiffened during the race. This was the largest field for the women's head ever, with 300 crews entered and 291 crews starting. The fastest Scottish crew were the composite Clyde/Edinburgh University/Glasgow RC/Glasgow University crew, who finished in a phenomenal 6th place. The highest placed single club crew were Clydesdale ARC who finished in 33rd place and 5th of the S3 crews. Almost holding their start position of 65, Edinburgh University A finished 68th, and won the S4 pennant.

Scottish Schools Head: Please note that is an amendment to Rule 3 in the events, rules and entry document. This now states that "A club or school may enter a crew composed of rowers who satisfy Rule 1 above providing all the individual members of that crew hold a Scottish rowing licence for that club or school. If, however, a crew is entirely composed of pupils from a SINGLE SCHOOL and that School is registered with the Scottish Schools' Rowing Council its entry will be accepted, regardless of the origin of the individuals' Scottish Rowing licences." If you require SSRC registration forms, please contact Bob Neill.

6 March

Universities Winter League: The current standing in the winter league are as below. With only one event to go in Aberdeen on the 14th March it looks like Dundee will win the winter league for the first time. Edinburgh have an outside chance of catching Dundee but this would require some amazing results from Edinburgh and an unusually poor performance from Dundee. In the middle Aberdeen have passed Heriot Watt and Glasgow are safe in 3rd.

1. Dundee University		995		5. Heriot-Watt University		333
2. Edinburgh University		800		6. Strathclyde University		301
3. Glasgow University		677		7. Robert Gordon University		114
4. Aberdeen University		355

Strathclyde University Students Versus Graduates race: The fourth Barony Cup will take place on Saturday 4th April on the River Clyde - the event will involve 8’s racing between Strathclyde University Student and Graduate crews. As previous years this will involve mens, womens and mixed 8s crews racing. Following the racing there will be a prize giving and a social event in the evening - venue to be confirmed. The organisers are looking for any Strathclyde Graduates wishing to row or cox in the races - racing will start approx 2pm. Anyone interested please drop an email to fiona.stuart[at]tsg.com.

5 March

Scottish Schools Head: Details on how to enter are now available, information on events and rules is included in the document. The deadline for entries is Friday 13th March at noon and entries should be emailed to rhcnoap[at]tiscali.co.uk. Please note that the entry must include the event and for each individual in the crew their: 1) name; 2) date of birth; 3) licence number; and 4) school attended. Please also give the name, email address and contact number of the club official making the entry.

3 March

Strathclyde Park Regatta: The details for SPR 2009 and the Scottish Universities Championships are now available on the right hand side of this page and the events and results page. The organisers hope that many clubs will make use of the on-line system which is being fine tuned and should be ready for use in plenty of time. Payments cannot be made on line, so club entry secretaries will still need to allow time to input their entries, print off the invoices and post that along with payment in time for the entry deadline.

Accommodation available for Men's Tideway: If anyone is still in need of accommodation at Men's Tideway for the night of Friday 20th March - "My crew's dropped out and I have, unexpectedly,8 family rooms in well known hotel chain (double and 2 singles in each room ) 14 miles from start at Mortlake. All 8 rooms can be purchased for £125 for a group, or £19 as individual rooms. Please email falkirkkkk[at]yahoo.co.uk or phone Patrick on 07931 888649".

2 March

Clydesdale 8s and 4s Head: The results from Saturday's head race are now available. Men's Open Eights was won by a composite Glasgow RC/Castle Semple RC/George Watsons College BC crew in a strongly fought contest, which at one point saw four eights side-by-side. In the women's event, the Clyde ARC/Glasgow University BC/Glasgow RC/Edinburgh University BC crew had an excellent race finishing first in their event and equal third overall.

London Head Races: Draws are now up for all but one of the London Head Races - Women's Tideway, the National Junior Sculling Head, the School's Head and Men's Tideway

Aberdeen Universities Boat Races: The Aberdeen Universities Boat Races were held on Saturday 27 February on the River Dee in bright, breezy conditions with a moderate stream running. For only the second time in the events 13 year history, the Robert Gordon University celebrated a fine win by one length over Aberdeen University in 8 minutes 3 seconds, just two seconds outside the record time set two years ago. Aberdeen University won both the Alumni race in a new record time, as well as winning the shorter second crews race.

Photograph: Roberts Gordon University win the Aberdeen Universities Boat Race by one length from Aberdeen University. Photo courtesy of Roy Sinclair.

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