I know everyone is fully focused on the head racing season at the moment but with the great commitment and numbers of participants we are seeing down at the club everyday at the moment we want to ensure we carry on the momentum into the next part of the season. We have a great base of fitness and skill and forward planning for the next part of the season will only help the tigers grow stronger.
Would you believe it but he sprint season is only a few weeks away. You may recall completing a survey earlier this year for the head racing season. Well it’s now time to do the same for the sprint season.
Please take the time to help us to know your rowing goals.
Click here to take the survey now.
Thanks for your participation!
Venue Hires
A quick update on venue hires as we are starting to get lots of bookings.
We have appointed 5 caterers to use the RRC Boathouse as a venue for bookings. You can see information relating to these on the Venues page of the website. These caterers manage all aspects of a venue hire for us, giving us a professional image.
All caterers have access to the boathouse for the purpose of showing potential clients the venue and also for setting up and holding functions. Mainly clients will visit during the day when most rowers are not around, but if you do see people who are clearly looking at the boathouse as a venue, please just let them continue – the caterers know everything they need to in order to sell the venue.
We are putting all our bookings onto the calendar on the blog so that you know when the boathouse will be booked. Venue hires are a major fundraiser for us – potentially worth a new boat a year – so please be considerate when a venue hire is in progress.
During a venue hire:
– You can still access the changerooms and gym as normal via the back stairs.
– You can open the wall between the gym and classroom if the classroom is not being used for the function but please ensure that all the blinds in the classroom are down.
– Please keep the changeroom, gym and internal boat bay doors shut to ensure security of your and the club’s possessions.
Caterers will have access to set up for a function from 2 hours before the start time. Once they start setting up, please do not enter function areas.
Caterers will close up after a function. However, rowers should close up the boat bays as usual and leave via the rear doors.
Thanks for you help in making the most of our fundraising opportunity from venue hires.
Swim Test
A swim test is being held at at 1pm Sunday 16 November, Kerferd Road Pier, South Melbourne beach. The distance is 50 meters with no time limit in clothing that approximates to what you would row in.
This is a COMPULSORY test for all club rowers so everyone who hasn’t done it yet should make every effort to do so.
Any questions please contact Justin.
Melbourne Cup Sweep!
Enter our fundraiser and win! Only 24 horses at $20 each... Prizes include two specially engraved RRC glasses with cash ($120/$60/$40). Draw will be Tuesday morning at 10am at RRC. Enter by direct debit to the club or cash to Vicki or Gerry: confirm your entry by emailing [email protected]. We will be at the club from 8-12 Sunday and 8-11 Monday to collect cash entries. You will be notified by email re which horse you drew. Good luck!
Coached Sculling Sessions
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technical skills in sculling, Gerry Goss will be running sessions on Saturday mornings at 9.45am, regatta schedule permitting.
The sessions are aimed at improving technique, especially in small boats and anyone is welcome.
We will work on specific drills, and video footage will be obtained where possible.
RSVP is essential in order to assign boats, as resources are limited.
If you wish to be added to the email list then let Gerry know ([email protected]) . An email is sent during the week confirming the session and requesting RSVP.
It would be great to see you there!
Access, Security and other Boathouse Information
Not surprisingly, we have been getting some questions about how our new boathouse operates so here is some information to help everyone along. It is not complete as we are yet to have handover of some functions / items in the building. When we do have all the handover complete, we will organise a time to walk members through the building so you get to know first-hand how to operate certain things.
ACCESS
Members can apply for access fobs using the form contained in the access policy on the website. Member fobs give you access into the boathouse through the rear door and also the downstairs front door. They also provide access to the gym and the hall areas inside the boathouse.
When you are down for training or any other everyday matter, please use the rear stairs to access the first floor. This will help us reduce wear and tear on the carpeted hall area and ensure that you do not mistakenly walk into a private function in the hall!
Therefore member fobs do not open the door at the top of the front stairs – think of the front door and stairs now as the ‘function’ entry to the boathouse and the rear door and stairs as the rowing and training entry to the building. For those who have been members for a few years you will recall that this was the arrangement for many years. It helps us keep the front entry stairs and the hall clean.
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Head of the Goulburn
It was a big ambush of tigers that soaked up the sun at Nagambie last Sunday for the annual Bridge to Vines 7.2km head race along the beautiful Goulburn River.
Richmond had a impressive number of entries and an equally impressive results list.
The fastest Richmond crew on the day was the FD8+ who won their division in a time of 30:23 overtaking all their competitors along the course. Sophie, Karen, Ainslie, Kate C, Amanda, Michelle, Rochelle and Kate D were coxed to success by Mike Numa with coaching credit going to Simon Crunden and Dennis Beck. Dennis Beck did not stop there though earning himself a coxing medal with the male D quad, Micheal G, Micheal C, Charlie and Dave who pulled him along the course in 33:13.
Completing the Richmond domination in D grade the WD4+ of Emily, Amy, Cat and Lindsey coxed by Derek won their race in 35:31. With another Richmond crew in the WD4+ and more crews also in the MD8+, WD4X+, MM4X+ and FM1X Richmond certainly showed a strong presence on the river and then back on land as we enjoyed the celebrations and the fruits of our hard work at the finishing line at Thabilk winery.
Another great day for the club and a huge thanks to all those who helped make it happen especially Pete Schouten for safely delivering our boats.
Sunday post-row BYO event
We will be giving up our BYO permit on 5 November so we thought it appropriate to celebrate by using it and inviting everyone to BYO drinks and also something to put on the
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BBQ this Sunday (26 October) after training at 12.30pm.
It will also give us the chance to congratulate those people who rowed so well at World Masters, Head of Goulburn and Head of the Charles.
We would love to see everyone one there whether you are training or not.
We are giving up our BYO permit so that our panel of caterers can use their licenses for hall hires at the boathouse. As a result RRC will be UNLICENSED so please ensure that you do not bring drinks into the boathouse after 5 November.
We will be using temporary licenses and working with our caterers to put on monthly drinks and our social events. More to come……
Airconditioning – IMPORTANT!
Please do NOT use the airconditioning at the boathouse yet. It has not been properly set up and is therefore not working correctly.
Please just open up all the doors and put on the fans for now. We will let you know when the airconditioning has been set up properly and it can be used.
We are following up with the builder as this was meant to be done last week, but the correct person did not turn up to do it. Apologies and thanks for your patience.
Head of the Charles 2014
Richmond masters rower Geraldine Goss has won the Women’s Senior Masters Fours at this years Head of the Charles regatta. The crew rowing in Melbourne University colours, won in a time of 19 min 17 sec, 18 seconds ahead of the second place local crew from CRI (Community Rowing Incorporated).
Coach and Richmond coaching mentor Sue Chapman-Popa, said the crew had a great row finishing 1.03 seconds off the course record for their division. “The crew came to me in June this year saying they wanted to win the Head of the Charles and they have done it. The commitment they have shown to prepare for this particular event has been outstanding, and I am extremely happy for them”, she said. More to come.