New Year Honours List: Congratulations to Owen McGhee of Clydesdale ARC who has been awarded the MBE in today's Queens Honours list, awarded for his on-going services to sport and charity work - as well as being a longstanding member of Clydesdale ARC, he is the vice-chairman of the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Photo: Owen McGhee MBE. Thanks to Ron Wallace for the photograph.
29 December
GUBC Western Eights Head: Glasgow University Boat Club invites you to its annual Head Race for eights, to be held on Saturday 24th January on the River Clyde. More information is available at the GUBC Website and the information pack may also be downloaded here.
River Clyde Debris: The debris has been removed from the bridges on the Clyde but the log at Millerfield Road remains and can be just under the surface at times. This presents its own hazard and rowers should take extreme care when approaching it as it is at a narrow and dangerous part of the river.
22 December
HAPPY CHRISTMAS! This photograph of the River Ness and the Grieg Street Bridge at night is sent with the best wishes of Inverness Rowing Club to all in Scottish Rowing for a Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year. In the background may be seen the illuminated clock tower of the Old High Church steeple which was built in the early 1700’s before the Battle of Culloden
Floodwater and debris on the River Clyde: The Glasgow Humane Society have sent a safety notice for all River Clyde rowers. Due to floodwater and high river levels large flotsam and debris is floating downriver, already some debris has blocked bridges and other places. Once the water levels drop and allow boating to continue rowers must take special care around Dalmarnock Road Bridge, the south pier of the bridge has an extremely large build up of debris and at Millerfield Road a large log is sticking out from the north bank into the river. The Humane society will as ever endeavour to remove these blockages as soon as is is safe and possible to do so.
GB Trials: Report from Lee Boucher on last weekends GB Trials. 8 Scottish athletes took part in yesterday’s 2nd GB Assessment for Senior & Under 23 athletes in Boston, Lincolnshire. With a number of the Beijing athletes returning to the fold, the standards were higher than the previous October trial. The standout Scottish performance goes to Alan Sinclair of Leander Club (and formerly of Inverness RC / Aberdeen University BC), who continued his excellent performances at GB trials this season, finishing in 12th place overall ahead of some big names such as Colin Smith, stroke of the Beijing silver medal winning 8+.
19 December
Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships 2009: The SIRC 2009 will take place at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh on Sunday, 1 February 2009. Over 44 different categories of individual racing are available along with a number of team categories. The event will also include the Scottish Universities Championships with a Victor Ludorum awarded to the most successful Scottish University. Further documents are on the Indoor Rowing page and entry information can be found at www.concept2.co.uk/national/scottish.php.
GB U23 Camp: Two Scottish athletes, Jonathan Adams and Chris Rae (and their coach Ross Malone) have been invited on the GB Rowing U23/World Class Start Camp in Nantes, France this January. The camp is likely to be used to form crews to send to the World U23 Championships and European Championships next summer.
8 December
SARA Rules of Racing: The revised Rules of Racing are now linked from the Downloads Page. Rules changed are as follows:
- E2(c) which now defines an invitation event;
- E8 where max. average points for R1 is now 6 and R2 where max. average is now 2;
- E9 where the concept of veteran handicaping has been introduced.
Clyde Head Photos: Pictures from all three divisions of the Clyde Head are now up on David Nolan's Flickr page.
Regatta Calendar 2009: The Events and Results page has now been updated with the 2009 SARA Racing Calendar. This is also available as a pdf calendar.
Universities Winter League: The position in the winter league after seven events shows Dundee extending their lead and Glasgow consolidating second place.
1. Dundee University
652
5. Aberdeen University
330
2. Glasgow University
485
6. Strathclyde University
252
3. Edinburgh University
351
7. Robert Gordon University
114
4. Heriot Watt University
333
1 December
Clyde Head: Results from Saturday's race are now available. Photographs of divisions 1 and 3 are also on Niall Darroch's Photo website in the Scottish Rowing Gallery.
Photograph: Nithsdale Womens 2x at Clyde Head. Courtesy of Niall Darroch.
SARA Annual Awards: The following awards were presented at the SARA AGM.
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New Year Honours List: Congratulations to Owen McGhee of Clydesdale ARC who has been awarded the MBE in today's Queens Honours list, awarded for his on-going services to sport and charity work - as well as being a longstanding member of Clydesdale ARC, he is the vice-chairman of the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Clyde Head: 