Vesta Scullers’ Head of the River

Sep 28, 2025

The club had sixteen entries in the Scullers’ Head this year and won three pennants. Congratulations to Simon Hunt on winning the Open Masters Lightweight category with a handicap time of 22 min. 23.52 sec; to Slavo Radosevic on winning Open Masters H in 25 min. 45.60 sec; and to Tom Bishop on winning Open Masters I in 25 min. 41.12 sec.

And well done to all those taking part!

The club’s results are summarised in the following table:

Posn.Bow No.NameCategoryTimeH’cap TimeCat. Posn.
168300Simon HuntOp Mas Lwt 1x24:18.5222:23.52 (MasF)1 of 20
214274Nathan Russell ThompsonOp 1x (club)24:24.167 of 19
227351Mark O’BrienOp MasE 1x24:54.0012 of 18
319434Tom BishopOp MasI 1x25:41.121 of 7
328427Slavo RadosevicOp MasH 1x25:45.601 of 6
341329Ken CreightonOp MasD 1x25:54.2813 of 16
391313Jose Gonzalez CoteraOp Mas Lwt 1x26:34.8625:08.86 (MasE)16 of 20
428477Maurizio ConzaOp Mas Nv 1x26:57.8426:44.84 (MasB)16 of 21
433559Kirsty Russell DuffW MasD 1x26:59.559 of 13
445457James SpicerOp Mas Nv 1x27:09.2225:14.22 (MasF)11 of 21
480439Ainslie RimmerW Mas Lwt 1x27:48.5427:11.17 (WMasC)13 of 16
481555Graham BagnallOp MasI 1x27:48.543 of 7
494478Dave NicolOp Mas Nv 1x28:06.4725:39.47 (MasG)12 of 21
521360Mattie Ball TorokoffW U23 1x30:12.756 of 6
526209Blue ThorpeW Lwt 1x30:48.0011 of 11
527597Rita Parekh PatelW Mas Nv 1x31:00.8529:54.85 (WMasD)13 of 13

The full results may be found here.

We have a new Pennant Winners Chart.

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