Category: Racing News

Saturday June 6th saw the roadshow off to Hexham for the latest round of the local regatta season for what is one of the largest events in the northern calendar. Falling near the end of term and the week before Durham Regatta Hexham Regatta attracts a large entry from both club and college rowers, with[…]

The 2015 National Schools’ Regatta takes place at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham over the weekend of May 22nd to 24th. It is the largest regatta for juniors in Great Britain. Held annually the regatta offers events for Junior rowers between J14 and J18. It was first raced in 1947, and has since grown[…]

Durham ARC entered 15 crews in this year’s Tees Regatta on Saturday May 16th, comparable with the 17 entries at Chester-le-Street on April 18th but well down on the 49 entered for last week’s cancelled day at Durham City Regatta. Tees is the third of the scheduled annual regattas in the Northern region and takes[…]

With 350 entries and 272 races scheduled over 11 hours for the Saturday of this year’s Durham City Regatta there was huge disappointment when the weather once again chose to be unkind and heavy rainfall the previous day led to the cancellation of the entire first day’s programme on safety grounds. The yo-yo nature of[…]

On Saturday April 25th a group of 8 daytime and Masters rowers went to Bradford ARC to take part in the War of the Roses, a scratch regatta involving clubs from across the Northern, North Western and Yorkshire regions – from Hull and Runcorn to Talkin Tarn and Hexham. The event has become a firm[…]

The first multi-lane regatta of the season took place at Strathclyde Park over the weekend of April 25th/26th with the Juniors sending a large contingent. This is a major event which takes place under the banner of Scottish Rowing and attracts entries from all over Scotland and the north of England. Pride of place went[…]

The Women’s Eights Head of the River Race took place on Saturday 14 March 2015 on the Thames. DARC Masters Performance squad arrived in London, filled with inspiration on the day of Bill Grant’s memorial service, determined to do him proud. Those who had travelled earlier had the boat re-rigged before the rest of the[…]

Six competitors from Durham Amateur Rowing Club, accompanied by Coach Geoff Graham, went to the English Indoor Rowing Championships held at The National Cycling Centre – Manchester Velodrome on Sunday 29th March. Gill Prescott continued her unbeatable record by picking up 2 Gold medals in the women’s 50-59 age category for the 2km and 500m[…]

It was a successful weekend for the DARC crews taking part on the Tideway in the first two Head of the River races of the season. First of all two women’s teams took part in the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR) on Saturday March 14th, the 75th year that the event has[…]

Durham Amateur Rowing Club’s Masters squads have enjoyed some success in competitions over recent weeks as we approach the main Tideway Heads season in London. The Women’s Masters D quad of Carole McCarthy, Sarah Rutter, Helen Adair and Nicki Trewhitt (pictured), and the Masters D eight of Angela Lund, June Davison, Gabrielle Moore, Clare Woodward,[…]

Two of the most able young scullers from Durham Amateur Rowing Club attended early identification trials for the national rowing squad on February 21st. The two 16 year-olds took part in trials held in a single scull over a 5000 metre head course at Boston, Lincolnshire. Both did very well and have now been called[…]

Durham Amateur Rowing Club had a successful day at the British Rowing Indoor Championships staged at London’s Olympic Velodrome on Sunday February 8th. Over 1300 competitors from around the country took part, including several members of the GB rowing squad. Gill Prescott took the British women’s Masters title in the 55-59 age category with a[…]

Despite weather concerns this year’s Durham Small Boats Head was able to go ahead as scheduled on Saturday February 7th. This is DARC’s major event of the winter season and takes place over the 1800 metre course upstream from Counts House to finish beyond the Bandstand. The Head is eagerly anticipated following the winter break[…]

With the festive season almost over, the schools on holiday and still a month to go before Durham Small Boats Head on February 7th the Chairman came up with the bright idea of ringing in the New Year with a closed Club regatta in the form of a time trial on the long course. A[…]

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[…]