Richmond Rowing Club was delighted to receive a VicHealth Active Club Grant to support our Tiger Social Rowing program.
The $2,890 grant has enabled the club to purchase four pairs of yellow handled sculling blades and 5 sets of boat lights. This reduces equipment constraints allowing more rowers to be on the water during the peak Thursday night and Sunday morning crew and social rowing time slots.
The oars were “christened” by four of the twenty one participants in our first 2018 Learn to Row group on January 30. We are delighted that a number of members from that class have already signed up to join the club.
Welcome….. we look forward to helping you to further develop your rowing skills.
Just a reminder that all club members are welcome to join the social rowing program on Thursday evenings 6.15pm or Sunday mornings 9.45am. Please contact Head of Rowing if you want to participate and are not currently receiving the Sportsnoticeboard sign ups for Tiger Rowing.
Buy your RRC New Years Eve Tickets now!!! Earlybird pricing available until Friday 22nd December.
Early bird tickets are just $45 per person if purchased prior to 22nd December. Tickets are $65 per person if purchased after 22nd December. All funds raised going directly to the clubs fundraising goal of new equipment.
Click here for the Trybooking link —> Don’t wait, book early and save!!!
Price includes entry to RRC, snacks, BBQ and Salads
Drinks at RRC Bar prices.
Entry from 7pm New Year’s Eve. Ticket required (No ticket no entry)
Tickets released for New Years Eve – book now!!!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with great friends and unrivalled views of the city’s midnight fireworks from our very own clubhouse deck.
Early bird tickets are just $45 per person if purchased prior to 22nd December. $65 per person if purchased after 22nd December. All funds raised going directly to the clubs fundraising goal of new equipment.
Don’t wait, book early and save!!!
Price includes entry to RRC, snacks, BBQ and Salads
Drinks at RRC Bar prices.
Entry from 7pm New Year’s Eve. Ticket required (No ticket no entry)
LOCATION
The Deck, Richmond Rowing Club
7 Boathouse Drive, Southbank
CONTACT DETAILS
Chris Sullivan
[email protected]
Christmas Club Races and BBQ Sunday 17th December
Richmond Rowing Club will be having our Xmas social BBQ on Sunday 17th of December from 12 pm with Xmas Club Races from 9:45 am.
Friends and Family are welcome to come enjoy some Xmas cheer and cheer some club racing.
WHEN: Sunday 17th December
Club races from 9:45am, Christmas BBQ from 12pm
BBQ Price: includes Gourmet BBQ and Salads (please advise Barry Campbell of any dietary requirements at time of booking)
$25 per person Tickets can be purchased via Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/338721
Drinks: RRC Bar open post club races –Drinks at bar prices
VENUE:
Richmond Rowing Club
7 Boathouse Drive
Melbourne, Vic
Continued investment in our fleet announced at the AGM
Our AGM was held at the club on Saturday 29th July 2017 in our wonderful facilities. It was an opportunity for the members of the club to come together and reflect on the clubs operations over the past year. We continue to be able to present a healthy balance sheet. Thank you to all who attended and thank you to all the Committee members for their contribution through the year. The clubs healthy finances benefit greatly from our amazing venue and our ability to continue to hire the venue through the ongoing work of the Committee and Lucy as our Facilities Coordinator. As you will have seen from recent blog post about the kitchen and bar refurbishment we continue to invest in the club so we can maximise our income. We were pleased to announce at the AGM our ability to continue to invest in the renewal of the fleet as the outgoing Committee have placed an order for a brand new Sykes boat, a men’s Kevlar bow coxed quad/four.
A major part of the AGM is to elect a new Committee and Farewell any departing members from the Committee. The three Committee members who stood down will be sorely missed.
Karen Doggett, our outgoing president has been a member of the Committee for six years, four of them as president. During this time her dedication and commitment to the role and the club have been evident to all. She has also found the time for significant on water success during the time. The club is in a strong position as Karen leaves the Committee.
Dave Micallef has been the clubs Fundraising Coordinator over the past year, he has overseen a successful fundraising contribution that has allowed us to refit the gym and invest in some much needed new oars. Nick Forte steps down as ordinary member having contributed strongly to the fleet subcommittee and redesigning the gym.
The new committee for the 2017-18 season consists of:
President – Jon Roberts
Vice-President – Geraldine Goss
Secretary – Aline Dejaeger
Treasurer – Kathy Macrow
Captain of Boats – Barry Campbell
Head of Rowing – Tim Evans
Facilities Coordinator – Lucy Crunden
Fundraising Coordinator – Christine Sullivan
Two ordinary members – Yashwini Vegi, Laurent Demay
Congratulations and welcome to our newest Committee members, Christine Sullivan, Yashwini Vegi and Laurent Demay.
Following the conclusion of the AGM we celebrated the newest addition to our fleet, the Dennis Beck, our brand new women’s Kevlar bow coxed quad/four Mould 10. Dennis was on hand to swing the hammer and officially name the boat.
Thanks to everyone who then helped out with the bbq and bar afterwards.
One season ends and another begins
Thanks to everyone who came out and celebrated at this years Presentation and Awards night. A great evening was spent looking back upon the success of the year and showing appreciation to all the people who have made it possible.
We also congratulated our Male and Female club and masters rowers of the year Jonathon Roberts and Geraldine Goss who through active participation, competition success and club time trial events collected huge points to come out on top in both categories.
The Don Edwards, Cox of the year award went to Stefanie Dudzicg, who was also a valuable member of the very successful Female novice masters four who I had great pleasure in awarding the presidents award for their great commitment, results and Richmond team spirit. The crew included Yashaswini Vegi, Caroline Trescowthick, Rebecca Hale, Zoe Maxwell, Stefanie Dudczig (cox) & Kathy Macrow (coach).
Now we begin to look forward to the 2017/18 season and after training next Thursday evening 15th June @8PM, we are asking all rowers & coxswains to stay for a one-hour feedback session with the coaches. Rather than doing an online survey to gather feedback on the past season, we would like for all our rowers & coxswains to provide some direct feedback to the club. This feedback will be noted, and will be used by the coaches and committee in shaping the rowing program for the next season. I strongly urge everyone to attend as all feedback will be most welcome. By providing your opinion you are helping us create a program which will better suit your needs.
The good news – the bar will be open, and we will arrange some food as well. Even if you aren’t able to make training, it would be great to have as many people as we can come down to the feedback session afterwards.
Xmas Club Races and BBQ Sunday 11th December
Unless you’ve been wandering around with your eyes closed and your headphones on recently you will have noticed it’s getting close to Xmas time.
Richmond Rowing Club will be having our Xmas social BBQ on Sunday 11th of December from 1 pm with Xmas Club Races from 9:45 am.
WHEN: Sunday 11th December
Club races from 9:45am
Christmas BBQ from 1pm
Tickets can be purchased via Trybooking :
https://www.trybooking.com/243058
BBQ Price: $20 per person includes BBQ and Salads
Family Ticket $60
Drinks: RRC Bar open post club races –Drinks at bar prices
VENUE:
Richmond Rowing Club
7 Boathouse Drive
Melbourne, Vic
Friends and Family are welcome to come enjoy some Xmas cheer and cheer some club racing.
Melbourne Head BBQ
With races fast approaching don’t forgot to pencil in our first race on the Yarra for the year. Melbourne Head takes place on Saturday 19th of November. There’s no boat loading or unloading so we will be trying to get as many boats on the water as possible. Even better news is we will be opening the bar and having a barbecue at the conclusion of races – from 1pm.
More details to come on arrangements, for now pencil it in your diaries, let your coach or Head of Rowing know if you plan to race.
We also need volunteers to cook up a storm on the BBQ and help with a shift on the bar if you have an RSA – please email [email protected] if you can help.
Rio Rowing Finals Social
Are you busy counting down to the rowing at this years Olympics? Well it’s not long to go and we’ll be opening the boathouse and the bar for the final day of the Rio rowing finals, so come down and join the fun and excitement as we watch the best of the best row to glory on the big screen.
Saturday 13th August, from 7pm (be aware the time difference to Brazil means the rowing is going to be pretty late). With the last minute inclusion of the Australian womens 8, it could be a big night for the Aussies with the singles and the eights both male and female both reaching their climax.
http://3.25.77.84/event/rio-rowing-olympics-viewing/
Season 2015-16 Celebrations
With masters season flying by it’s time to think about celebrating our achievements for the last year and look back on another bumper season at RRC.
Our boathouse will be the venue for us to gather on Saturday May 28th from 7pm to celebrate the year and to say thanks to all our coaches and volunteers that make RRC the club it is. Friends and family are invited to enjoy the evening too with a spit roast dinner and drinks available at bar prices.
Tickets are $30 each – please buy your tickets by 20th May so we know numbers for caterers (it’s pretty hard otherwise).
Please pay for your tickets using the RRC bank account:
Richmond Rowing Club, Bendigo Bank
BSB: 633 000
Account Number: 117078238
Ref: Pres Night <surname>
Contact [email protected] if you have any dietary requirements or questions.
One of the highlights of the night is always a little slide show of photos and movie clips gathered throughout the season, so if you have any you would like to share please put them on the Facebook page or send them through to me, thanks.
Look forward to seeing and celebrating with you all.
