Stourport Regatta 2000

Quintin won its first Victor Ludorum since Molesey 1997 at this year's Stourport Regatta amassing a total of 31 points over the weekend.

The highlight of the weekend was the Senior 2 VIII winning the Sprint Regatta on the Sunday. In the first round they beat Minerva Bath by 2 and a 1/4 lengths. Kevin (Lofty), still reeling from his first ever disqualification the day before (whilst the VIII were leading Agecroft) undertook some fine tuning. Mickey's Big Hand and Little Hand were used to explain the rudiments of timing to Dov ("4 - watch your timing......4 - Do you want a f***ing watch?").

The semi-final saw the Quintin boys come up against Nephthys (the Oxford Lightweights Summer Squad) who had cleaned up in lower statuses the day before. Drawn on the town side Quintin were level approaching the bridge and the commentators said "Oxford" were in control. Egyptian pronunciation seemed to prove a problem during racing. A big push saw the Quintin edge a seat and then draw out to a half length victory on the line.

The other semi-final saw a rematch of the previous day's final - Agecroft vs Northwich. Northwich won by a length, stroked by Matt Langridge, a Henley Double Sculls finalist this year and World Junior Championships finalist the week before.

The Senior 2 VIII had rowed better in every race over the weekend and in the final they pushed out Northwich to win by just over a length. On the final day of the final club regatta of the year Tim Maggs had won a qualifying point for Quintin and achieved one of the Captain's targets for the year!

Mark Chatwin continued his remarkable season taking not only Senior 1 singles on both days, but winning Elite VIIIs and Senior 2 VIIIs for Quintin and stroke-steering a Senior 1 coxless four for Curlew RC on the Sunday

Huw Jones and Alan Kirkpatrick won Senior 2 doubles in a large field in their fourth win of the season.

The veteran squad had a great weekend winning Vet B VIIIs and coxed IVs on both days, with young Chatwin jumping in at bow to win Elite VIIIs against Stourport. Huw and Alan (Alan finally in a Quintin vest!) teamed up with Richard Lonnergan and Lloydy to win C IVs adding to Hilary's considerable coxing tally for the season.

Lloydy picked up Veteran D singles both days beating Richard Edward's father, Tom in the process on the Saturday.

What did we get for the Victor Ludorum? No cash prize but a huge great mounted oar to display in the bar. All we need to do now is make sure Graham doesn't throw it on the fire.

Toby Lonnergan won J11 singles for Tideway Scullers and Hilary picked up another coxing pot for Bradford-on-Avon's Vet C IV+ on the Sunday as well.