British Rowing Awards 2025

We are delighted to announce we have nominated Jackie Eastwood for British Rowing Awards – 2025 for The Community Coach of The Year for her coaching she provides to Chiswick School, Grove Community Rowing & Quintin Boat Club. Please read the full text of the...

Weybridge Silver Sculls

A favourite of mine over the years, Weybridge Silver Sculls is one of the Autumn Long Distance Sculling events on the non tidal Thames. It is short at 3300m and has two straights of around 1k each with an s bend in the middle between them.  A great event for...

Head of the Charles ’25

QBC members Dave Allen and Ken Creighton just returned from Boston where they rowed with their university alumni club, the Olden Bears (graduates of the University of California at Berkeley, the Golden Bears). Ken and Dave were 5 and 4 seats in one of two Olden Bears...

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...

Elliott Kemp – Race Coach

Welcome to our new Race Coach – Elliott Kemp Elliott began rowing with the Maidenhead Rowing Club Learn to Row class of 2014, training for four years under the guidance of the renowned coach Katerina Kleshneva. During this time, he achieved three national...

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....