Lago d’Orta Challenge – 11th and 12th October

Our extremely competitive masters spread their wings and took off for Italy over the weekend to compete in the Lake Orta Challenge. Lake Orta lies just to the west of Lake Maggiore, a beautiful setting for this two-day event, with eights racing over a 6 km course on...

Vesta Scullers’ Head of the River

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....

World Rowing Masters Regatta, Banyoles, Spain (10th-14th September)

This year the spectacular UNESCO site of Lake Banyoles in the pre-Pyrenean hills of Catalonia in northern Spain was selected as the venue for World Rowing Masters 2025.It was the largest attended World Rowing Masters so far with 5433 crews competing. A fractured group...

Three More Wins for Tom Bishop

Since our last report on his successes Tom Bishop has chalked up three more wins, one of them with Geoff Peel. At Henley Masters on Saturday 12th July he and Geoff won Masters I quad sculls in a composite with Lee Brown and Rod Stewart of Upper Thames RC. On Sunday...

Barnes & Mortlake Regatta

The club had seven crews racing at Barnes and Mortlake Regatta on Saturday and chalked up a win and two runners up. All our crews had wanted to enter masters events but had to be satisfied with races in the open events offered in the regatta programme. Our two open...