Durham City Regatta, May 9th & 10th 2026
The posters for Saturday and Sunday of Durham City Regatta are now available. Entries will open at 3pm on Friday, April 17th.
Category: Club News
Masters hit the Tideway
Durham ARC Masters were in London on Sunday, March 29th for the Vesta International Masters Head of the River Race which takes place over the 6.8km Championship course on the Thames between Chiswick and Putney, on the same weekend as the Head of the River Race. DARC was represented in the time trial for Masters[…]
Women’s Eights Head tops an action-packed weekend
The final weekend of winter saw DARC crews in action in competitions near and far. On Saturday, March 14th the Senior Women became the first crew from Durham ARC for 10 years to enter the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race, one of 327 eights from across the UK and overseas racing over the[…]
Funding to support people living with cancer.
Durham Amateur Rowing Club is one of more than 30 community projects across the North East and North Cumbria to receive a share of £200,000 from the Northern Cancer Alliance. The funding is part of a community project to improve quality of life for people living with cancer through supportive group activities, which in Durham[…]
World Rowing Virtual Indoor Championship Golden Treble
While the rest of the Club was lamenting the cancellation of Durham Small Boats Head, Roger Stainforth was busy competing at home in Durham in the heats of the 2026 World Rowing Virtual Indoor Championships. The Championships took place over consecutive weekends – qualifying heats on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd, and finals on Saturday,[…]
Learn to Row courses for 2026
Our programme of Learn to Row courses for 2026 has been launched. The courses are aimed at beginners, and no experience of rowing is necessary. On the course qualified coaches and a team of helpers will teach you the basics of rowing, sculling, coxing and indoor rowing. The schedule of courses for Adults and Juniors[…]
Spring Festival Fireworks February 16th 2026
We are very excited to be bringing a new event to the rowing club this February to celebrate the Chinese New Year, organised with Durham University. Join us on Monday February 16th for a Spring Festival celebration at Durham Amateur Rowing Club, proudly supported by Durham University. The evening marks New Year’s Eve as observed[…]
Durham Small Boats Head – February 21st 2026
The poster for Durham Small Boats Head on Saturday, February 7th 2026 is available here, a time trial on the River Wear in four divisions over 1800 metres. Entries open at 5pm on Friday, January 16th, and will close at 7pm on Friday, January 30th or earlier if the safety limit of 100 per division[…]
Junior Formal Dinner and Awards
The juniors kick started a new calendar year of training and racing on Saturday evening, January 3rd, with a night of frocks, suits, awards and some questionable dancing. Saturday night saw the return of the Junior Formal, an opportunity to change into something smarter than AIOs and trainers! The evening started with the presentation of[…]
2025 in review
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.[…]
Additions to the fleet named
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[…]
Double success at BRIC 2025
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[…]
Don White 1942-2025
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[…]
World leading time at NEIRC
Roger Stainforth was Durham ARC’s only competitor, and one of only three Masters entries, at the North East Indoor Rowing Championships hosted by Durham University Boat Club at Maiden Castle on November 15th. Using the competition as a predictor of what might happen at the British Rowing Indoor Championships (BRIC) in Birmingham in 3 weeks[…]
Being a Light in the DARC
On November 12th members celebrated the advent of the final Lumiere to take place in Durham by staging a light show of their own, as crews embarked in six boats of varying size including a single, double, four, quad, eight and octuple took to the water festooned with fairy lights for a paddle to the[…]
Durham hosts LDS finale and Autumn Small Boats Head
The final round of the 2025 Long Distance Sculling (LDS) Series went ahead in balmy autumnal conditions on Saturday, November 8th, combining with Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (ASBH) on the same day, as organisers rose to the challenge of accommodating the 350 or so entries wanting to race the 1800 metre course. The challenge[…]
Tees rowers visit Durham
DARC’s daytime rowers renewed acquaintances with friends from Tees Rowing Club on Thursday when the Tees Wrecks (recreational rowers) were invited to Durham for a row on the river followed by a buffet lunch, continuing the regular exchange visits that have been so much enjoyed by members of both clubs.since they started in October 2012.[…]
Road resurfacing improvements
Following agreement with other users the road connecting the Rowing Club with Green Lane has been fully resurfaced. This has been made possible with significant funding from Durham Amateur Rowing Club, 1860 Bar & Kitchen, Durham University, Durham Regatta, St Giles Yarners Rifle & Pistol Club and Durham City Cricket Club, and the support of[…]
Durham hosts the final round of the Sunday League
For a second consecutive year Durham ARC hosted the final round of the Northern Rowing Sunday League. The finale was delayed by a week to avoid the effects of Storm Amy, and therefore took place on October 12th. Since the first round in April this year’s league was able to avoid the worst of the[…]
Fireworks by the River on November 2nd
Tickets are now on sale for the annual fireworks evening on Sunday, November 2nd which promises to be our best fireworks display yet. The evening is being hosted by Durham Amateur Rowing Club and 1860 Bar & Kitchen. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketebo here. All of the usual food including BBQ, Hot Dogs, Chips,[…]
Annual General Meeting September 21st 2025
The 2025 Annual General Meeting takes place at 10.30am on Sunday, September 21st and will be followed by a BBQ for members. A copy of the Agenda can be found here.
A successful weekend at Tyne, Tarn and elsewhere
In what is sometimes seen as the close season for rowing an unusually busy first weekend in August provided a modicum of success on the Tyne and at Talkin Tarn. To improve attendance levels Tyne ARC has for the past two years rescheduled Tyne Regatta for an August date rather than the traditional June. This[…]
Juniors triumph at British Rowing Club Championships
Twenty-three members of the Junior squad had an outstanding weekend between Friday, July 18th and Monday, July 21st at the 4-day British Rowing Club Championships at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, bringing home two gold and one silver medals from 13 entries. Conditions were good on Friday before becoming changeable and wet for the remainder of the[…]
Quinn takes victory for GB against France
The latest chapter in an impressive sequence of performances from Quinn Mosley came in the GB v France J16 Match at the London Docklands on July 12th in which he was selected in a team of 54 to represent Great Britain for the first time, in the Men’s single scull. The match is an annual[…]
GB selection for Quinn in J16 GB v France Trial
Today saw Quinn Mosley head to the National Watersports Centre at Nottingham for the GB J16 Trials, an event used to aid the selection for the 2025 GB vs France Match, held at London Docklands on July 11th to 13th. Quinn topped the pile from the get go finishing the time trial a full 8[…]
Four trial for Wyfold at Henley
The Senior Men followed up their success in the Elite B coxed four at Durham Regatta on June 14th with third place in the E final of the Championship & Tier 2 coxless four at Marlow Regatta which took place at Dorney Lake on June 21st. The crew of John Roxborough, James Gibson, Darren Smith[…]
Visit to Tees Rowing Club
Fifteen members of the daytime rowers travelled to the River Tees Watersports Centre yesterday to join friends from the Tees Rowing Club recreational rowers on their regular Thursday morning paddle up the Tees, continuing the tradition of regular exchange visits between the clubs that commenced in 2012. The group included two members of the DARC[…]
Medals at British Rowing Masters Championships
Durham ARC had 9 entries among a record breaking entry of nearly 1000 crews from 128 clubs racing over 1000 metres at the 2025 British Rowing Masters Championships at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham over the weekend of June 14th and 15th. Despite blustery conditions it proved to be a successful weekend. First to[…]
Volunteers win the day at Hexham
With an entry of 102 from Durham College Rowing and 26 from Durham ARC for the 2025 Hexham Regatta a huge volunteer effort saw an unprecedented eight trailers on the road on June 7th transporting the Durham fleet of boats to Tyne Green. Falling a week before Durham Regatta and being one of the largest[…]
Durham City Regatta has a weekend in the sun
Durham ARC hosted its annual ‘home’ regatta Durham City Regatta on the River Wear over the weekend of May 10th and 11th. A long spell of dry weather brought onlookers to the riverbanks in large numbers to enjoy the sunshine while watching the action, although the low river level also emphasized the challenge of staging[…]