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We started the junior rowing for 2016 last night, the future of NBRC is right here. Some of the youngsters had rowed a little before but most had not been in a rowing boat so, after covering the essentials of safety and a little technique, we took them into the bay to start them off on the basics of rowing...in future weeks we'll be able to get our to Craigleith and see the puffins and seals, and once they get used to rowing we'll be able to get further.
Junior rowing at NBRC is open to all children aged 14 or over, contact <a href="mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">David Davidson</a> if you are interested in joining in.
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Yes Spring is here and NBRC have been busy on and off the water, too busy for this Web Wallah to keep up to date, soz.
In Feb we had a very well attended quiz night raising funds for the club - see if you can guess the theme from the costumes. Although your Web Meister was hoodwinked into playing his joker on a round titled "Numbers" which required absolutely no mathematical thinking, and since we didn't know how many beans are in a 250g can, we did not do very well :-(
Now it's March and officially Spring, so given this is Scotland, it's time to invest in some new knitwear, modelled here by some of North Berwick's finest
Easter Friday brought a sunny day with enough wind to remind us that we're coastal rowers, but benign enough for us to send a crew out rowing a return trip from North Berwick to Dunbar, 20 miles, and we have the GPS tracked route to prove it :-)
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It was a bit wild out in the Forth this morning, so any outings were confined to staying in the bay going round and round the buoys. To get anything out of this you have to empty all deep thoughts and adopt the mindset of a hamster on a wheel, or a goldfish in a bowl. Fortunately we have just the crew for this job.
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When it's just too windy, and dark to row on the water, we hit the gym for a Christmas race on the rowing machines...you would not believe how tired you can get within 4 minutes, but this was a fun event with lots of support for people of all abilities and experience followed by a couple of festive shandies in the pub.
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Another trip to the West Coast for NBRC took us to Largs, home of the famous Nardini Ice Cream parlour and a very fine spot for rowing indeed.
No wind was bad news for the many sailors that were on the water, but great news for us rowers to enjoy fast rowing in flat conditions.
Our hosts, Firth of Clyde Coastal Rowing club were having their second regatta, which was well attended by local clubs from the West Coast, and a couple of interlopers (ourselves and Anstruther) making the day trip over from the East Coast.
The racing was a mixture of 2k races around a single buoy turn and 500m straight line sprints. The 2K races take about 12 minutes, our mixed open crew held off Anstruther and the local boats to get our first win under the belt. Next up was our men’s crew, who won their heat, but that wasn’t enough to get a medal as the next heat went faster and first prize went to Royal West. Our ladies knew they’d have to row well to get ahead of Anstruther but it wasn’t to be and we were pushed into second place by the Queens of Fife.
After lunch was a series of 500m sprints and NBRC came into its own, to be fair we’ve been doing this for 5 or 6 years now and most of the clubs were in their first year of racing, but it’s a race so we went our hardest! We took all but one of the sprints, which was great for us, but the races were all hard fought and we were blowing hard at the finish. The one sprint that eluded us was the juniors, but we put in a mixed crew including a couple of 13 year olds (Gregor and Kirsty) along with Heather (aged 15) and the experienced old head of Cameron (aged 18) and they made us all proud with their neat rowing style and they pushed the local crew all the way.
After all that we felt fish and chips at the famous Nardinis was well deserved.
Many thanks to Firth of Clyde Coastal Rowing Club for a great regatta.
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