Malcolm Cook Tops the Potwinners' Chart

With the close of the regatta season, Malcolm Cook can now safely be declared winner of the Potwinners' Chart 2008, returning to the position he last held in 2004. Well done Malcolm!

The Annual General Meeting of the club was held in the clubroom at 12:00 noon on Sunday 14th September. The following officials were elected:

• Captain: Mark Chatwin
• Vice-captain: Graham Lloyd
• Treasurer: Bill Burbage
• Secretary: Malcolm Cook
• Other committee members: Martin Carr, Paul Gunn, Roger Hine, Duncan Hughes, Dave King

The AGM voted in favour of the outgoing committee's proposals for subscriptions and rack fees. For the year starting 1 September 2008 the subscription is therefore £330 less a £15 discount for those who pay before 1 November and the rack fee for private sculling boats is £155.

Thus those without a sculling boat rack should pay £315. Those with a rack should pay £470.

Please give your cheque (payable to Quintin Boat Club) to any member of the committee or send it to the treasurer, Bill Burbage, at "Beechlee", Bank Green, Bellingdon, Chesham, Bucks, HP5 2UT. Thanks to those of you who have already paid.

As is becoming a habit, the club rounded off the summer racing season with a clutch of wins over the Stourport weekend. On Saturday, the club entered Senior 2 coxed fours, Senior 2 coxless fours, Veteran C coxed fours, Senior 1 coxless pairs, Senior 2 double sculls, Senior 4 double sculls and Senior 4 single sculls. Miguel and Ewen consolidated on their novice doubles win at Staines with a win in Senior 4 doubles, and Miguel also took Senior 4 singles. On Sunday, our entries were Senior 2 coxed fours, Senior 2 coxless fours, Veteran C coxed fours, Senior 1 coxless pairs, Senior 2 double sculls, Senior 3 double sculls, Senior 4 double sculls, Senior 4 single sculls and Veteran F single sculls. Mark, Dov, Richard and Simon won Senior 2 coxless fours and Graham won Veteran F sculls. There were also two narrow defeats in finals on Sunday (2 feet and 4 feet). The captain puts it down to too much quadrupling up! So quite a successful weekend, with everyone of the team winning a pot except poor old Catt.

Dov Ohrenstein also lodged the following report, which gives a little more insight into a hectic weekend:

"Thanks to Mark for dragging us all up to Stourport for an end of Season spectacular & to Graham for trailering the boats. Mark clearly decided that we had to help Stourport's finances by entering as many events as possible:

Saturday (1200m course)

S4 1x- Miguel (Winner)
S4 2x Miguel & Ewen (Winner)
S2 4+ Mark Richard Simon, Dov, Catt (lost to winners)
S2 4- Mark, Richard, Simon and Dov (lost in final)
S1 2- Mark, Dov (lost to the winners)
S2 2x Mark, Richard (lost in final)
VC 4+ Graham, Richard, Ewen, Dov, Catt

Sunday (450m)

S3 1x- Miguel (lost in final, 1 length)
S3 2x Miguel & Ewen (lost to the winners, 1 length)
S2 4+ Ewen Richard Simon and ??? + guest cox (lost in final - 2 feet)
S2 4- Mark, Richard, Simon and Dov (Winner)
S1 2- Mark, Dov (lost in final - 4 feet)
S2 2x Mark, Richard (lost in final , 2 lengths)
VC 4+ Graham, Richard, Ewen, Dov (lost in final 3 feet)
VF 1x Graham (winner - 3 lengths)

Being greedy on the Pot Hunting nearly but not quite resulted in a stack of pots for each of us. Unfortunately the late injury to Kenny "The Paintball" Almond meant that we were putting together scratch crews for a lot of the events which made the task a lot harder.

Special congratulations to Miguel who stormed through to victory in the Saturday Senior 4 in his single and then repeated the result in the Senior 4 double with Ewen. Bumped up to Senior 3 for the Sunday Miguel was not far off the winning pace then.

The most memorable event for me was S2 4- semi final on the Saturday when we were 3/4 of a length down with 100m to go and a storming finish resulted in my first dead heat - Winning the rerow by a length and half felt like a final even though it was not. Unfortunately by the time the final came round there was nothing left in our tanks.

The finals, particularly on the Sunday came in quick succession with little space for recovery between races.

n the Sunday Sprint Lloydy appeared to cruise over the line at a low rate to take a comfortable victory in his veteran F single but then seemed surprisingly knackered. He later confessed that in the best Quintin tradition he was not in fact coasting but had put all his effort into the start.

The S2 2- of Mark and I faced a Worcester Crew who had not raced all day and were so fresh that they had to go on the ergos to warm up! They had beaten us comfortably on the Saturday and we were determined to do things differently and came close to pulling it off. Off at 48 and settling at 41, Mark thought the tempo was a bit on the low side so called for an up one as the crews were nearly level coming into the finish. Unfortunately, it was not quite enough and we narrowly lost.

The S2 4- brought home the bacon on the Sunday when it won the final against Stourport. Thanks to super sub Simon who was an able stroke despite claiming that he was rowing on the wrong side.

The S2 4+ were really unfortunate on the Sunday. The crew had its bowball in front most of the race but were just pipped at the line.

The final race of the weekend was the Senior 2 double. Mark and Richard faced the same crew that had earlier just beaten Ewen and Miguel. It took place only a couple of minutes after the S2 4- and about 15 minutes after the S2 4+ final and the Quintin Crew were well beaten, clearly having nothing left to give by that stage of the day. The combination of a lot of races (not to mention the previous nights' beers laced with disinfectant from the curry house) clearly took their toll but that won't stop Ewen and Miguel claiming bragging rights for getting closer to the winners!

All the rowers and scullers can be happy that to have come away with a pot (our cox Catt unluckily had to leave early and missed out on the chance to have squeezed an extra 2 foot out of Sunday's S2 4+).

Looking forward to next year!

Dov

PS Congratulations also go to Mark and Miguel for defeating some scary Stourport opposition in the Pool competition (local rules applying) at 2 a.m. during the late night pub lock in."

Staines Regatta Photos

The club had five entries at Staines and featured four finalists. On the first really summer-like day for many a week, with a blue sky and temperatures in the upper twenties, a good day's racing was had by all. Miguel Llanos and Ewen McLeod featured in Novice Single Sculls - Miguel had a disappointing first heat, but Ewen, after a row-over in his first heat stormed through in the quarter- and semi-finals only to lose out in the final in the last race of the day. As compensation, Miguel and Ewen triumphed together in Novice Double Sculls, winning both the semi-final and the final comfortably. Malcolm Cook kept up his near-perfect record by winning Veteran E/F Single Sculls, impressively making up the 4 second handicap in the final in the first 30 seconds of the race. The UWBC/QBC composite four raced in Novice Coxed Fours. Despite a huge shipwreck halfway down the course in the semi-final, which could have cost them their place in the final, they managed to hang on to their lead. In the final they never got their noses in front and went down by just over a length. Novice crew: Jack Gannaway (bow, QBC), Tom Sweetman (QBC), Lionel Eid (QBC), Andreas Kaefer (stroke, UWBC), John Peters (cox, QBC). Malcolm is pulling away in the potwinners' chart. Stourport here we come!

Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=490.

News from an old member of the club, Laurie Hallifax, who represented the club at Henley Royal Regatta in 1957 in both the Thames Cup and the Wyfolds. He appears in our photogallery in a picture of the 1957 Henley squad.

Laurie tells us he competed at Henley Veterans Regatta again this year and was the oldest competitor taking part. Here's a photo of him winning his first heat, courtesy of BigBlade Photography.

He is hoping to compete in the World Masters Regatta at Trakai in Lithuania in September and was wondering if anybody from Quintin was going. Last year he took part in the same event held in Zagreb, Croatia, and came second in his heat of the 80+ single sculls. He was the fastest British sculler in category "I" (75+) , won the octogenarian heat of the double sculls by 11/100ths of a second and stroked the winning octogenarian coxed four.

Molesey Photos

The club had a relatively successful day at Molesey Regatta. The sun was shining, on and off, and there was no rain, but there was a howling gale blowing down the course. This seemed to spur our competitors on to success. Mark Chatwin raced Morosinato of S.C. Querini, Venice in Senior 1 Sculls at 11:15 and this turned out to be the final as neither of the scullers for the other semi-final turned up. The verdict was a comfortable win for Mark. Ewen Mcleod battled through two heats of the Novice Sculls to reach the final, but found his Molesey opponent and the fact that he had already raced over the course four times a little too much. Four times? Yes, because he was doubling up in the Veteran D eight which had raced a closely contested semi-final against a Walbrook/Kingston composite (¼ length to Quintin) and another close race in the final against Molesey, where the verdict was ½ length in favour of Quintin . The Veteran D crew were: Graham Lloyd (bow), Malcolm Cook, Ewen Mcleod, Nick Ryan, John Ferrario, Roger Hine, Roy Davies, Dick Findlay (stroke), Catt Campbell (cox). Malcolm is currently racing away in the potwinners' chart, with four wins.

Full regatta results here.

Photographs of Molesey Regatta are available at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=476.

The club had two representatives at Henley Veteran Regatta: Tom Bishop in Vet F 1x and Dick Findlay in Vet G 1x. Competition was fierce, and neither sculler had any success.

Once again our Henley has proved disappointing. The Thames Cup eight were confident they could beat Kingston, but went down by ¾ length in a closely contested race. Full results here. However, we did have some winners - in the Thames Cup Sweepstake, organised by Duncan Hughes. The results are as follows:

Overall winner of event £125:  Leander – Kevin McEvoy
Slowest heat winner on Wednesday £40:  London 'D' (7.11) – Mike Kidd
Slowest heat winner on Thursday £40:  Leander (7.09) – Kevin McEvoy
Slowest heat winner on Friday £40:  Tideway Scullers (6.58) – Ewen McLeod
Slowest crew overall £50:  Agecroft (3¾ lengths behind a winning time of 7.27) – Mandy Alington
Second slowest crew overall £25:  KRS Gent (1½ lengths behind a winning time of 7.33) – Leif Jacobsen

Because of the very slow conditions on Saturday, the two "slowest" crews in the event were the losing semi-finalists.

Henley Photos

Shades of 1930

This picture looks remarkably similar to the one above the Quintin Bar, except it's 2008 not 1930 (and in 1930 Quintin went on to beat Kingston by 2½ lengths). A further coincidence is that both races took place on Wednesday 2nd July - just 78 years apart!

The "old" and "new" may be compared at at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=473.

The ARA has published proposals for a new system of racing statuses. A summary of the proposals may be found here. You can email your comments to competitionreview@ara-rowing.org. The proposals may be summarised as:

where one point is awarded for each win where two boats complete the course (i.e no non-qualifying wins). NV=novice, IM=Intermediate.

The club chalked up its first veteran VIIIs win of the season with a convincing win over Sudbury R.C. in the Veteran C/D handicap event at Richmond. Our 'D' crew were given 5 seconds start over Sudbury Vet 'C's but consolidated their advantage by leaving the stakeboat striking 41 and striding to 36-37. The final verdict was 2½ lengths in a time of 4 minutes exactly - at the time of going to press the fastest time of the day. Thanks to Graham for organising the crew and getting the equipment to and from the regatta. The crew was Graham Lloyd (bow), Malcolm Cook, Ewen McLeod, Nick Ryan, Roy Davies, Roger Hine, Ian Roots, Dick Findlay (stroke), Catt Campbell (cox).

Our Thames Cup VIII has qualified.

The club raced in Senior 2 VIIIs at Marlow on Saturday. There were 35 entries in this event, giving five seven-lane heats. The first three in each heat progressed to the semi-final. In their heat, the crew finished just outside the qualifiers, in fourth place. This was the fastest heat in the event by some three seconds and Quintin's time would have been enough to win three of the other four heats.

S2 8+ Heat 5

The final was won by Abingdon School, with Commercial R.C. in fifth place. Full results here (the S2 8+ final is race 96).

Nick Ryan and Charlie Harrison again ventured to Nottingham for the National Veterans' Regatta, this time in Veteran D double sculls. The competition was fierce, and Nick and Charlie finished fifth. Tom Bishop was entered in Veteran F single sculls, which he won, following on from his Durham victory the previous day. Tom is now vying with Malcolm at the head of the potwinners' chart. Pete Meaney sneaked in a win in Veteran D Eights in a Northwich/Agecroft/Quintin composite. Results of finals below.

VD 2x Final

VF 1x Final

VD 8+ Final

Barnes & Mortlake Photo

The club had three wins at Barnes and Mortlake Regatta: Malcolm Cook won veteran handicap sculls, beating Jock Mackerral of Vesta in the final despite a 15 second handicap. Miguel Llanos won Novice sculls in his first sculling regatta. The QBC/UW men's novice four also won, rowing in the Ernie Vincent for its first regatta and first win. The crew was Jack Gannaway (bow, QBC), Tom Sweetman (QBC), Lionel Eid (QBC), Andreas Kaefer (stroke, UWBC), John Peters (cox, QBC). Lionel was last year's captain of the University of Westminster Boat Club. Unfortunately the women's novice four which was due to race had to scratch.

At Durham, Tom Bishop was in Vet E/F/H handicap sculls, and travelled all the way north to race H. Jones of Thames Tradesmens' R.C. in the first heat! Tom went on to win the final.

A photograph of the B & M winners can be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=472.

The senior squad competed in Senior 2 VIIIs and Senior 1 coxless IVs at the Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake, Eton. In general they found the going tough, just failing to qualify in three of their four first round heats. The eight did, however, make it to the final on the Sunday. The result of the final was:

The first VIII (Quintin/MAA composite) found the going tough at Bedford, going out to a heavier Kingston crew in S2 8+ and to a Christ Church boat reputedly with three Blues on board in S1 8+. Meanwhile, back in Chiswick, Malcolm Cook cruised through his first heat in Vet E 1x, in which he was the only non-Putney Town sculler to have entered. He was then presented with a row over in the final as the Putney Town sculler who had won the other semi-final scratched from the race in protest, reportedly after a dispute with an umpire whilst marshalling for a double sculls event. Still, it doesn't say that on the pot, does it Malcolm?

Thank you to all the helpers at this year's regatta. The return of three-boat racing allowed a record number of entries to be accepted, and the day's racing went very smoothly, finishing slightly ahead of schedule. Thank you also to all competitors for some fine races.

Club Sculls Photos

This year's club sculling championship was raced from the Pink House to Quintin on Sunday 13 April at approximately 11.00am.

The overall winner was our captain, Mark Chatwin, who keeps the Bob Slade Cup for the next twelve months. The winner of the sealed handicap and new holder of the Finlayson Cup was Miguel Llanos. Other notable results were from Geoff Potts and Tom Bishop, continuing their rivalry just one second apart from each other.

Full results here.

Photographs of Mark and Miguel are available at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=460.

It is with regret that we announce the death of George Marshall earlier today. George was until recently an active member of this club and a regular both rowing in and coxing the vice-presidents' crews until, at the age of 85, his doctor advised him to stop. He was a bomber navigator during the war, serving in Egypt, the Western Desert and over Germany, and it was in the RAF that he learned to row. Many years later he returned to rowing at Ibis Rowing Club (who occupied what is now Mortlake Anglian and Alpha's boathouse). George joined Quintin as one of the "free transfers" when Ibis Rowing Club became defunct, and so for many years prior to joining us had also been a close neighbour. He won his novices aged 60 and then was successful as a coach. He was well liked in the club and on occasion would fascinate other members with tales of his exploits on the Berlin raids with Bomber Command. On giving up rowing, he moved to Somerset to live with his daughter and had become increasingly poorly in recent months. George will be sadly missed.

The funeral is at 1pm on Wednesday, 16th April at Taunton Crematorium. Family flowers only, but donations can be made to St Margaret's Hospice via the undertaker: Grandfield & Son, Keenthorne, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater, Somerset TA5 1HZ.

Thames Towpath Ten Photos

Roy Davies very bravely took on the wintry weather and competed in the Thames Towpath Ten on Sunday, 6th April. The snow had scared off about 300 competitors but Roy was one of the 337 to complete the course, finishing a creditable 82nd in a time of 1 hour 13 min. 35 sec.

Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=457.

In contrast to the mild, sunny morning of the Head of the River, Sunday started extremely blustery and wet, and the conditions were such that the organisers were forced to cancel the event. The club had two men's crews entered, the Veteran Ds starting at No. 82 and the Veteran Fs starting at No. 117, but it was not to be.

HORR Photos

9:45 a.m. saw the start of the 2008 Head of the River Race, a race in which Quintin Boat Club is one of the few to have competed on every occasion. Contrary to earlier weather forecasts, the morning was dry, and by the time the race started, the sun was breaking through the clouds. There was a slight head breeze heading round the Dukes Meadows bend, but compared with last year's ocean the conditions were relatively placid and there were no sinkings. The Leander (mainly) under-23s won by a comfortable margin of 7 seconds over Imperial College, who had strengthened their eight with four Italian internationals. Leander's time was 17 min. 39.57 sec. compared with IC's 17 min. 46.61 sec. The club had two crews entered, starting 98th and 218th. QBC I, boating in the new wing-rigger Empacher (not yet Christened), finished 76th in 19 min. 4.77 sec. - our best result for some years. QBC II finished 161st in 19 min. 40.10 sec. See the photo gallery for pictures of QBC I and QBC II.

A summary of the results may be found on our Head of the River web page and the full results may be found here (pdf format).

Leander I - winners of the 2008 HORR.

Photographs of the QBC crews are available at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=452.

The club had four crews entered for the Hammersmith Head (11:00 am on Sunday, 2nd March). The first men's crew. a Quintin/MAA composite, started 21st and finished 12th overall in 11 min 38.5 sec, the Vet D crew started No. 49 and finished 54th in 13 min 18.16 sec, the Vet E crew started No. 52 and finished 58th in 13 min 51.53 sec, and the women's novices composite with the University of Westminster started No. 64 and finished 61st (out of 61 starters) in 14 min 41.95 sec.

The "Bar Flies" and the vice-presidents took to the water in eights to represent the club at the annual Molesey bash. The weather over the weekend was some of the most benign for the time of year - blue skies, warm and sunny, with little wind. It must have had a soporific effect on the "Bar Flies", who managed to maintain only a ten second margin over the vice-presidents. The "Bar Flies" finished 21st in 10:14.4 and the VPs were 23rd in 10:24.7.

The annual dinner was held on Friday, 8th February. Once again the venue was the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, and some 60-plus members and guests (that's numbers rather than age, I think) turned up to toast the health of the club. The meal kicked off with smoked salmon and caper berries, followed by succulent rump of lamb. The principal guest was Steve Trapmore MBE, who gave us his unassuming account of the Sydney Olympic Games and how to stroke a crew to the gold medal in the blue riband eights event ("Row as hard as you can for the first five hundred, then row harder for the next five hundred; at the thousand row even harder, and, with five hundred metres to go, row harder still"). It works every time! Steve's talk culminated in a video re-run of the Sydney Eights final - and GB won again, earning a tremendous round of applause from all present. Unfortunately Steve had to leave the dinner early to keep a coaching appointment on Saturday morning in Lincolnshire and so he missed not only the excellent apple and blackberry tart with clotted cream but also the Captain's speech and Leif Jacobsen's dazzling act, which itself culminated in Leif promising to give us a speech next year, possibly to talk us through the Lightweight World Championships in when was it Leif? Sad to say, much beer and wine was consumed by all.

Quintin Head Photos

The Quintin Head was again blessed by fair weather; a bright sunny day with a strong westerly wind. The following wind and torrential stream resulted in a record-breaking time of 10 min. 13.6 sec. for the University of Bristol, who came Head for the second year running. Imperial College also impressed, finishing second and third to take the Men's Senior 2 and Senior 3 pennants, whilst Westminster School retained their fourth position and the Men's J18 title. Another record broken was the number of entries; 88, with 82 actually racing, compared with 61 last year. Interest within the club was maintained by a Quintin/MAA composite finishing 10th and Dick Findlay's Veteran C crew assembled on the day finishing a creditable 16th, taking the Veteran C pennant - all the more creditable as they actually qualified as Veteran D!

Full results are available here.

Quintin would like to thank all the officials and the clubs that helped with launches as well as all the competitors that took part in the event.

Check out the photo gallery for pictures of club interest.

Photographs are available at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=446.

It's a long time since there was any sherry on offer for guests at the Christmas "Sherry" Party, so we don't get Jock Wishart's annual visitation these days. However, the tradition of the Plum Puddings Handicap Race has been revitalised and was rowed on a crisp and sunny but cold Sunday morning as a warm-up for the serious business of the pre-Christmas social. Ten eights took to the water and rowed in procession from the Pink House to the Quintin flagpole. Mortlake, Anglian and Alpha took all the prizes - longest club name, most crews and silliest hats, but more significantly, the first three crews across the line. The Quintin first crew, but without their captain, started strongly at the rear of the field, but faded somewhat after Brentford Docks, and the Quintin Bar Flies kept up their record by letting everyone else cross the line before them. They were ably assisted in this endeavour by coxswain Geoff Garbow, who performed a pretty neat handbrake turn to take the crew round the UL buoy without hitting any of the opposing crews clustered around them.

With all the boats safely stowed away, it was then on to the real challenge of emptying a firkin of Gales H.S.B. and restoring energy levels with a plate or two of chilli con carne, with which Geoff and his associates demonstrated their catering prowess.

The race was relocated to Dorney Lake, owing to inclement conditions on the Thames. The Quintin entry was thus considerably depleted as only two singles and a double were willing or able to transfer to the new venue. Richard Ratcliffe won Vet B 1x in 8 min. 56.6 sec, finishing 26th in Division 1. Nick Ryan finished 52nd in Division 1 in a time of 9 min. 41.8 sec, and Frank Webb and Dick Findlay were the only Vet G double, completing the course in 9 min. 2.7 sec. (35th in Division 1).

Quintin had fifteen scullers entered for the Scullers Head, and came away with our leading sculler in the top 30 and two veteran pennants. The club's results were as follows:

Well done to everybody for taking part and in particular to Mark, Tom and Frank for their excellent results.

We had five entries in the Kingston Small boats Head, but unfortunately the event was cancelled because of the strong currents on the Kingston reach (and most of the upper Thames). It was probably a blessing in disguise for many of the competitors, as the weather was pretty uninviting - cold, windy and generally depressing.

A Vet F 4- very bravely took to the water for this event and completed the course in 24 min. 17.27 sec, finishing 95th. Crew: Paul Gunn, Charlie Shelton, Francis Brown (substituting for Bill Burbage) and Jim Moyes.

The 1st IV raced in the Head of the River Fours on Saturday 3rd November. They finished a creditable 124th overall in a time of 20:53.70 and were 8th out of 28 Senior 2 coxed fours. Crew: Dov Ohrenstein, Richard Ratcliffe, Mark Chatwin, Kenny Almand, Catt Campbell (cox).

Full Results here.

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Our scullers were out in force at Marlow and chalked up four more pennant wins. Mark Chatwin came second overall, Charlie Harrison won Vet D, Geoff Potts won Vet E, Tom Bishop won Vet F and Frank Webb won Vet G/H/I Handicap. The eleven Quintin entries in starting order were: Mark Chatwin (S1), Richard Ratcliffe (S2), Kenny Almand (VB), Roy Davies (VC), Nick Ryan (VC), Charlie Harrison (VD), Malcolm Cook (VE), Geoff Potts (VE), Tom Bishop (VF), Frank Webb (VG), Hugh Davy (VH). It is rumoured that Frank Webb kept up his record for finding obstructions and collided with another sculler, who had apparently emerged from the undergrowth without warning. As mentioned above, this did not prevent him from winning a pennant. Well done, Frank!

It is with regret that we were informed of the death on Friday, 26th October, of Andy Dawson, a prominent member of the club in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the 2 man of the Quintin crew that won the VIIIs race for England at the Home International in 1968, pictured here.

We had 4 entries for this race: S1 1x Mark Chatwin, VetC 1x Nick Ryan, VetG 1x Dick Findlay and VetG 1x Frank Webb.

Mark finished a very creditable 3rd in the single sculls, only 10 seconds behind the winner (who also came 2nd!) Nick was top of the Vet Cs and Dick was top of the Vet Gs. For those who didn't see it, Frank had an argument with Walton Bridge - he would, of course, have beaten Dick otherwise (so he says).

Full results here.

We had 5 entries for this race: S1 2- Chatwin/Ohrenstein, S3 2x Ratcliffe/Almand. Vet C 2x Ryan/Harrison, Vet E 2- Lloyd/Hine and Vet F 2x Potts/Bishop.

Congratulations to Nick Ryan and Charlie Harrison, who won the Vet B/C 2x division on handicap, and to Geoff Potts and Tom Bishop, who won the Vet F/G/H 2x category outright.

Full results available here (Excel download).

Before the AGM, a photograph was taken of all club members present, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Quintin Boat Club out of the Polytechnic Rowing Club. Ladies, where were you?

We had 11 entries for this race on Saturday 29th September: Mark Chatwin, Dov Ohrenstein (both S1), Belinda Davies (WS1), Roy Davies (VC), Charlie Harrison, Geoff Potts (both VD), Malcolm Cook (VE), Tom Bishop (VF), Frank Webb (VG), Hugh Davy (VH) and a Bishop/Potts double scull (VF). Unfortunately, Belinda and Roy had to scratch.

Mark came 3rd in S1. Charlie was 2nd in Vet D. Frank won the Vet EGH handicap and Tom won Vet F. Tom and Geoff won the Vet 2x. Well done everybody!

Full results available here.