If you’ve been to a regatta, you would be aware of the people around who are wearing Hi-vis vests and carrying megaphones. They’re directing you where to put your boat in/out of the water, checking bow balls and shoes to ensure rower safety, keeping the transit lanes safe, getting you lined up at the start, following the race and calling boats into their lanes, and then determining who’s won. These people are BROs (Boat Race Officials)!
As a club, RRC has to provide BROs at each regatta. Recently the BROing has been done by coaches, the captain and JL but we need to share BROing duties around as these people already do so much work at the club. We don’t want to burn them out!
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Sculling session – Saturday
The sprint season is in full flight and it’s great to see many RRC rowers on the water. For anyone interested I will run a sculling session for small boats (1x, 2x) on Saturday at 10am. This will have technical focus and involve drills with some filming for analysis afterwards. If you would like to come along then email me directly [email protected] together with your boat preference. I will send an email on Friday evening with boat allocations. Hope to see you there!
Barwon 2016
It’s Sunday, pre 5:30am, and an alarm is rudely squawking in my ear. It must be sprint season!
Sure enough, on the final day of January the intrepid Tigers headed south-west around the bay to show their stuff at the Barwon regatta.
It certainly wasn’t a glorious start though. With a grim forecast spinning tales of afternoon lighting storms and epic black clouds already towering on the horizon there was a very real chance the afternoon races would be a wash out. My mind flashed back to the previous year, sitting cold and damp in a tent. At least Geelong was consistent!
No time for dreaming about warm beds though because we soon arrived at the river and it was straight down to the serious business of rigging and racing….just as soon as I’d located a coffee and a bacon and egg roll, obviously.
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Venue Hires and Rowing Access
Our venue hires have been very successful in earning the club the money to spend on refitting the boat bays, the purchase of new boats and equipment, our club mentor and improving our general club finances, enabling us to continue to offer reasonable membership fees. It is our most significant income stream.
When we hire out the boathouse as a venue we always let the hirer know that we are an active club, but that our rowers will restrict their activities to the changerooms and gymnasium and will not interrupt or disrupt the event in any way.
Please ensure that when a venue hire is happening you stick to this and do not use the corridor as a training or social area. We do not wish to jeopardise our venue hire revenue by impacting on events.
Thank you to everyone for their consideration.
Venue Hire this Sunday & Wednesday
Our venue hires have been very busy at the start of the year with the boathouse being well used for conferences, training courses and a wedding.
Unusually we have a venue hire this Sunday so if you are not going to Barwon regatta, please be aware that the venue hire is using the hall and terrace areas this Sunday with set up from 9am and the actual function starting at midday.
On Wednesday it is the Herald Sun Jayco Bike Tour and there will be very limited access to the boathouse area. If you are training on Wednesday, please be aware that RRC is the coordination centre for the event from 7am to 9pm and the hall and classroom areas will be being used during these times. There will also be their volunteers coming and going during these times so the boathouse will be quite busy.
Thanks to everyone for their consideration.
Lucy
Up up and Away!
Just wanted to give you a quick update on our fundraising achievements recently and also tell you about what’s next.
Thank you to all those kind tigers who donated something into the Christmas hamper. We raised $750 through the raffle which was won at the Christmas party by Geraldine Goss (congratulations).
Secondly was the New Year’s Eve party, we raised $2,400 from ticket sales and bar profits, which is an awesome effort.
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Australia Day
RRC is hosting a BBQ on Australia Day with an open bar and the opportunity to enjoy our lovely clubspace. For those interested there will be a special ‘skills and drills’ sculling session at 10am in small boats (1x and 2x). This will be technique focused session with some video footage for analysis over a beer and sausage. If you are interested to attend then please email me directly [email protected] with your boat preference as numbers will be limited by availability of boats.
Those who wish to take bigger boats out can book a boat through sportsnoticeboard.
See you then and don’t forget the bbq is self-catered so bring along some goodies.
Cheers, GG
Take care on the river
You may have noticed with the arrival of Summer the level of river traffic has increased and on top of that a few extra obstacles have been added as bridge works and geotechnical investigations occur.
Could I ask everyone to take extra care whilst out on the river at the moment and also when moving boats in and out of the shed. Please be aware of what is going on around you, talk to one another and ask a question if you are unsure.
Information for river users is displayed on the clubs noticeboard or can be regularly checked on the Rowing Victoria website. Boathouse drive events which result in restricted access or increased activity in the area are also displayed on the noticeboard and on the RRC events calendar, please take the time to check these things.
This week especially there are increased water taxis due to the Australian open tennis and Princes Bridge Arch closures so special care should be taken to ensure you are well clear of Princes Bridge and other traffic before turning. Currently the Northern arch is closed, but over the next month both the central and Southern arches will be closed at some point so be aware.
Please stay safe and enjoy your rowing.
Rutherglen
When I was thinking about writing this post all that came to mind was “there were lots of races and then there were some more races and some people won and some people didn’t”. I thought I should probably expand on that a bit…
On the weekend of 13-14th January we ascended en masse for the 150th annual Rutherglen regatta. It’s a thought to imagine what the regatta would have been like all those years ago, how many people would have attended, what clubs they came from and what the boats were like.
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Australia Day BBQ
Why not spend Tuesday 26th January with friends relaxing and enjoying our beautiful riverside terrace?
The club bar will be open from midday and friends and family are welcome to come along and enjoy our prime venue. We’ll be throwing some ‘snags on the barbie’ but otherwise this is a self catered event so bring along whatever you would like.
The day is all about relaxing and having fun so we’ll try and keep it stress free for all with our RSAs helping out on the bar and everyone pitching in to sizzle a sausage.
All being well it will be a beautiful Summers day and we’ll head out for a row before hand to work up an appetite.
If you want to let me know you’ll be coming along and/or coming down for a row at 10am just email [email protected].