In a year of consolidation 2025 started and finished with the naming of additions to the fleet and saw several success stories as the year unfolded. Ringing the changes brought an influx of new members to the club, which along with changes to directors and officers puts it in a strong position for the future.[…]
Several new and not so new boats acquired by the club in recent months were named at a ceremony on Sunday, December 14th. It had been planned to follow this with a scratch regatta, but the weather had other ideas and the wind forecast dictated that the second part of proceedings was unable to go[…]
On December 6th and 7th the 2025 British Rowing Indoor Championships (BRIC) headed to Birmingham’s NEC for a third year, this time with a record 2900 entries racing in 241 categories, and entries including many Team GB athletes. Roger Stainforth represented Durham ARC for a second year in the 80-84 age category, and continued his[…]
We are very sorry to learn that Don White passed away recently at the age of 83. Don had a long time involvement with the Club lasting several decades. He was Club Chairman from 1994 until 2006 during much of the planning period of the club’s building project which saw the redevelopment of the clubhouse[…]
Nine crews from Durham ARC took part in Rutherford Head on Saturday, November 29th, the final time trial of the year contested over 4.5km of the River Tyne with the course moved 500 metres downstream from its traditional setting. Demand for places from competitors was as usual very high with entries suspended within 35 minutes[…]