One of the most successful years in the history of Durham Amateur Rowing Club’s Juniors section culminated earlier this month with the accolade of Junior Team/Club of the Year at the prestigious Northern Echo Local Heroes Awards. Now in its 15th year Local Heroes celebrates, recognises and rewards achievements in grassroots sports in the Northern[…]

Durham Amateur Rowing Club member Roger Stainforth demonstrated recently how rowing is a sport for all ages. Taking part in the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships in Glasgow on December 6th Roger, who celebrated his 70th birthday in September, emerged with a new British Record in the over-70 age category. Roger’s time of 3 min 23.5[…]

Durham rower Jess Eddie picked up her second gold medal of the British Rowing Championships on Sunday – but not in the way she was expecting. Gusts of up to 40mph at Holme Pierrepont meant the championships had to be cut short, with medals being awarded based on the morning’s time trials. And, despite their[…]

High winds early on Saturday morning seemed to threaten racing taking place but having left Durham early, as the rowers approached Newburn the wind dropped and the conditions were near perfect for racing on the Tyne. There were two events on Saturday, the morning event part of the Autumn Long Distance Sculls hosted this week[…]

The 2014 Sunday League reached its conclusion with the final sweep round at Durham on October 5th. We were blessed with fine weather for what promised to be a tense contest for the six teams still in with a chance of the title. Cakes duly baked and post-event BBQ arranged battle commenced for DARC’s 6[…]

Last Saturday saw the start of the autumn racing season for local rowing clubs. The Long Distance Sculling (LDS) Series consists of five time-trial races spaced over six weekends held at five different clubs, South Hylton, Tees, Tyne, Durham and ending at Cambois. The boats taking part are single, double and quadruple sculls. Durham ARC[…]

Durham Amateur Rowing Club was well represented at the gruelling Boston Rowing Club Marathon this year. The Marathon route goes from Lincoln to Boston, 31 miles or 51 kilometres initially along the canal and then on to the River Witham. The weather conditions were good and the only problem was a fair amount of weed.[…]

The 2014 Great Tyne Row took place on September 20th with a record entry of 34 from all over the UK. The event is a 25km row along the Tyne from Newburn to Tynemouth and attracts a variety of craft including fixed-seat coastal skiffs, stable quads and doubles and for the first time a dragon[…]

Round 7, the penultimate round of this year’s Sunday League took place in fine conditions at Tyne RC on September 7th 2014 coinciding with another notable event on Tyneside, the Great North Run. Vaughan’s first outing driving the minibus went without a hitch with us taking a scenic route via the Derwent Valley to be[…]

The fourth round of the 2014 Northern Rowing Sunday League was memorable in a number of ways. Falling as it did within the local regatta season meant that we had to bid farewell to those who had recently lost their novice status and become ineligible. Among the DARC contingent this included 3 members of We’ar[…]

Round 3 of the Northern Sunday League was the most successful to date for DARC with 14 wins secured. The second sweep event of the year took place at Chester-le-Street in dry and sunny conditions. It was our turn to provide the boats along with the Tyne ones so there was an earlier than usual[…]

Bradford ARC hosts an annual invitation scratch regatta known as the War of the Roses which sees veteran rowers of all standards from across the north of England converging on Bradford’s Victorian clubhouse in its picturesque setting on the River Aire at Saltaire. This year’s event was held on Saturday April 26th and, as a[…]