Recognising the volunteers who make a significant contribution to the sport the awards presentation to the winners of British Rowing’s Volunteer of the Year for 2016 took place at a lunch at the River & Rowing Museum at Henley-on-Thames on February 4th. Winner of the Event Administration award for the Northern Region, on behalf of[…]
Roger Stainforth continued his good form winning the 70-74 Heavyweight category gold medal at the Deutsche Rudern Meisterschaft (German Masters Indoor Rowing Championships) in Essen on Sunday January 29th in a time of 3.24.9 for 1000m, the fastest recorded by a GB athlete in the age group on the Concept2 records for 2017, a very[…]
Entries for Durham Small Boats Head are now closed. The draw will be published on or after January 28th 2017.
The prospectus for Durham Small Boats Head 2017 is now available here.
Durham ARC’s only representative Roger Stainforth emerged from the British Rowing Indoor Championships on December 10th with a gold medal, the third time in 2 years that he has returned victorious since the national championships were relaunched in February 2015 and moved to their new home, the 2012 London Olympic velodrome at Lea Valley VeloPark.[…]
This year’s 50th anniversary Rutherford Head proved to be the most popular to date with entries suspended 2 weeks before the official closing date. Named after its founding body Rutherford College (the forerunner of Northumbria University) the Head effectively marks the start of the winter racing season. Come November 26th a calm, sunny but cold[…]
Heavy rain during the week raised concerns about prospects for York Small Boats Head but come the day autumn sunshine prevailed allowing all 3 divisions to go ahead as planned over 3km on the River Ouse on Sunday, November 20th. Durham ARC had 20 entries from a range of squads and 6 wins were secured.[…]
Durham County Council has issued the following update about restoration work in Pelaw Wood. Following thorough analysis of the second landslip, a design to stabilise the ground has been completed. Additional soil nailing works were also required to stabilise the steepest parts of the bankside. A mesh will be installed at the surface and vegetation[…]
Cold wet conditions failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the record entry for the Bonfire Night double header of the Northern Rowing Council’s Durham Long Distance Sculls (LDS) and Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (SBH) organised by Durham Amateur Rowing Club. With a field of 124 entries for the morning sculling race and 108 for[…]
Please see final start order (pdf) and with boating times (xls) for Durham LDS (morning) and the afternoon Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (pdf) Please also read the Competitors Instructions which apply to both events.
The provisional start order with boating times for Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (afternoon) is available here. Provisional start order for Durham LDS (morning) is here. Please also read the Competitors Instructions which apply to both events.
On October 31st 2016 Geoff Graham completed 60 years as a member of Durham ARC with a small celebration in the clubhouse. Geoff has taken on innumerable jobs around the club over the years, having raced for the club, coached numerous crews and even helped to build the old clubhouse As an oarsman he achieved[…]
The 2016 Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships took place on Saturday, 29th October at Bellahouston Sports Centre, Glasgow, where Roger Stainforth competed in and won the age 70+ 1000m race in a time of 3m:28.2s. Later in the day he went on to race over 2k in the open heavyweight category in a time of 7m:26.6s.
Entries for Durham Autumn Small Boats Head are now closed. The draw will be published on or after October 31st.
We are delighted to have re-introduced the Junior Captains within the Junior Squads. The applicants after writing a letter of application stating why they were suitable for the position of Junior Captain, were invited in to be interviewed by a panel headed by Helen McMillan. The standard of applicants was extremely high and we are[…]
Glorious autumn sunshine welcomed 120 competing crews to Cambois Rowing Club on the River Wansbeck on October 1st for the first of 6 rounds of the Long Distance Sculling Series. There were wins over the 3350 metre time trial course for Durham ARC crews in the J17 and Women’s Masters D coxless quads and for[…]
The eighth and final round of the 2016 Explore Series took place at Durham ARC on October 2nd with 12 crews in competition for points in 24 side by side sweep-oar races over a 300 metre course. The weather stayed fine and three crews, two from Durham ARC and one from Tyne ARC, finished with[…]
On Saturday October 1st a group of Old Salopians who where at Shrewsbury School with Bill Grant gathered to launch a Hudson Double scull named in memory of Bill and bought with money donated by the group. The double will be used by the school’s Junior girls. Unfortunately the weather was not kind but his[…]
On September 24th in Newquay, Cornwall two DARC members, Hazel and Roger Stainforth were in world record setting indoor rowing activities in their respective age groups. Organised by the Newquay Indoor Rowing Club, two teams of rowers from across the UK – and one man from France – set world records rowing in relay fashion[…]
The prospectus for Durham Autumn Small Boats Head is available here.
Olympic silver medallist Jess Eddie called in at Durham Amateur Rowing Club on Saturday to show the medal she won in Rio to members of the club where she started her rowing career. Now based in London Jess had spent the last week touring the north-east with fellow Great Britain rowing squad member Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell,[…]
September sunshine welcomed the 9 crews entered for the 2016 Allcomers Regatta, six mixed (including one all-female) and 3 men’s fours. After a few short weeks of intensive training friendly hostilities commenced over a 300 metre course with round-robin races alternating between DARC’s two stable boats and the pair borrowed from Durham University Boat Club.[…]
Ten DARC members took part in the World Rowing Masters Championships between September 8th and 11th, this year taking place at Lake Bagsvaerd near Copenhagen in Denmark. The Championships is a huge event, and welcomed 3451 rowers from 584 different clubs and from more than 40 countries. Masters rowers compete over a 1000 metre course[…]
After the cancellation of the Talkin Tarn round of the Explore Series in August because of a forecast of strong winds the penultimate of the 8 rounds went ahead at the sumptuously refurbished Tyne Amateur Rowing Club on Sunday September 4th. A late start saw crews waiting for the tide to come in and the[…]
Durham ARC entered 3 crews for the 25km Great Tyne Row on Saturday August 27th, a popular annual challenge for stable and coastal boats, launching from Tyne United Rowing Club at Newburn and finishing beyond the ferry terminal at North Shields with crews continuing onwards to land on Tynemouth beach at Prior’s Haven. Twenty-six boats[…]
The World Rowing Championships took place on the recently opened 6 lane Willem-Alexander Baan course in Rotterdam between August 21st and 28th, with Hope Cessford of Durham ARC and Lauren Irwin of Chester-le-Street ARC selected for Great Britain in the Junior Women’s Pair (for athletes under 19), the only representatives from the Northern region in[…]
The second River Wear Tour, hosted by City of Sunderland Rowing Club, took place on Saturday August 13th. Thirteen rowers from Durham ARC joined crews form Tynemouth, Gateshead and Sunderland Rowing Clubs for a 20km paddle along the tidal stretch of the Wear in stable quads, a double and a skiff. Armed with a tour[…]
Durham ARC members gathered last week to send their best wishes to the GB Women’s Eight ahead of their departure for the Rio Olympics which get underway on August 5th. Included in the 8 is one of our home grown athletes Jess Eddie. Now 31 and from Durham Jess will be taking part in her[…]
On July 29th we welcomed a group of 8 touring Dutch rowers from Leiden and Hemus Rowing Clubs who had asked to visit the club. Due to connections with Durham University they are no strangers to the area and have visited the club on two previous occasions. During their 2 weeks in the UK they[…]
Congratulations to Hope Cessford of Durham ARC on being selected for the Great Britain Junior squad to take part in the World Rowing Junior Championships in Rotterdam in August. Hope will be rowing in the Women’s Pair with Lauren Irwin of Chester-le-Street ARC, one of 9 Junior crews selected for the Championships. The 36 Junior[…]