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News for Members and Friends of Ryde Rowing Club.
October, 2011.
Ryde Rowing Club Annual General Meeting
In accordance with Rule 11 the Annual General Meeting of Ryde Rowing Club will
take place at the
Clubhouse, Appley Park, Ryde, at 8pm on Thursday, 20th October, 2011. At this
meeting, the Club
will elect its officers, committee and bar committee for the next year; review
and adopt the accounts
for the year ending 31st December 2010 and consider and agree and rule changes
and amendments.
Please try to attend – it’s your club - the meeting agenda, forms for nomination
of Club Officers and
Committee members etc... are on display on the noticeboard in the downstairs
hall at the Clubhouse.
Annual Dinner
The Clubs Annual Dinner & Presentation of Awards takes place at Yelfs Hotel,
Union Street, Ryde
(where the Club was founded in 1877) on SATURDAY, 15th October, 2011 at 6.45pm
for 7.15pm -
until late. PLEASE NOTE EARLIER DATE THAN USUAL. The menu for the Dinner is –
Chef's
Soup of the Day (yet to be decided, but will vegetarian); Medallions of Pork in
a Creamy Stilton
Sauce with Vegetables in Season; Chocolate Velvet Torte; Coffee. For those who
prefer a fish course
we have - Fillet of Salmon in a Brandy and Crayfish Sauce. and there is a
Vegetarian alternative
available – Vegetable and Goats Cheese Strudel on a Fresh Tomato Sauce. PLEASE
NOTE – THE
ALTERNATIVES ARE ONLY AVAILABLE IF PRE-BOOKED. Dress is - Dinner Jacket; Lounge
Suit
or Club Blazer. [Club Ties and Blazer badges are available from Steve Bull - at
10, Brookfield
Gardens, Binstead, I.W. Telephone: 01983 566481. E Mail: stephencbull@gmail.com
] Ties are £10,
Blazer Badges (limited stock) - £13. Tickets are just £25.00 (less than last
year!) and are strictly
limited to 80. To reserve your tickets you need to contact - Pete Hewison. at
61, St. Johns
Road, Ryde. Telephone 01983 614385. or by E Mail on: peterhewison@btinternet.com
We
anticipate that the Dinner will be oversubscribed so please reserve your tickets
early. They will be
reserved on a first come first serve basis. Payment must be received by the 30th
September -
reserved Tickets will be held until this date and then made available for
re-sale. The Club reserves
the right to limit the number of tickets per member. A Guest speaker is yet to
be confirmed. Following
the dinner, brief speeches and presentation of Awards there will be a Disco.
Racing News
The Club have had another good coastal season with wins at Men's and Ladies
Novice Fours, in the
Veteran Fours and the Men's Senior Sculls - as well as dominating the J16 Fours
races where they
won all but one of the races held. Their four wins in the Men's Novice status
gave the Club a share in
the Hants & Dorset ARA Men's Novice Championships and Senior Sculler - Ian
Hayden's four wins
secured him his first Men's Hants & Dorset ARA Senior Sculling Championship to
go alongside his
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GB Masters Gold Medal won earlier in the season. As well as the two Hants &
Dorset Championships
mentioned the Club finished as runners-up for the Veteran Fours and in 3rd place
for the Men's
Coastal Junior Fours Championship. The eleven Hants & Dorset Championship Points
won made
them the 8th ranked Hants & Dorset ARA Club, the highest placed of any of the
three Island Clubs. A
surprise win at Men’s Junior Fours for one of the winning Novice Crew means that
– Charlie Gedling,
Harvey Kirkby and Jo and Charlie Norman will be Junior Seniors next season –
while Max Reeve,
Andreas Hicks, Sam Corney and Dale Buckett will race at Coastal Junior allowing
us to mount a
challenge for both these Championships. Bryony Reeves two wins in Novice Ladies
composite crews
promotes her to Coastal Junior Status. The Club also had a number of successes
in the pre-season
head races – notably overall and Senior Fours winners at the Southampton Coastal
HORR.
The Clubs Veteran squad – now called “masters” were busy in the early part of
the season competing
at the GB Masters at Nottingham where Ian Hayden took the Gold Medal in the
Masters “B” single
sculls event and Mick Jenner took a silver in the Masters “C” single sculls –
with these two then
combining in a coxless quad with Russell Page and Simon Saunders where they
finished in third
place. The squad also competed at the Henley Masters Regatta.
The Club competed in the 55th South Coast Rowing Championships which included
the 6th South
Coast Junior Regatta, held at the 2012 Olympic Regatta venue at Eton, Dorney –
where we won the
Boys J14 Double Sculls and were 2nd – by less than a foot – in the J16 Boys
Coxed Quad. The Club
also played a leading role in the staging of this event – which was hosted by
our own Association –
the Hants & Dorset ARA – providing the pontoon marshalling team, the merchandise
sales team and
race officials – as well as sponsoring an event.
Over the years Ryde Rowing Club has had an excellent record of members of their
Junior Squad
being selected for the Wessex Region Team – for the GB Junior Inter Regional
Regatta - and this
years was no exception with no less than eight Ryde Club members – a record for
any Island Rowing
Club - being selected for the Regional team following extensive mainland trials
that have taken place
over the last few months. Ryde’s successful J15 Boys Coxed Quad, of Sam Corney,
Andras Hicks,
Dale Buckett and Max Reeve, who were the 2010 South Coast Champions raced as a
crew and
achieved the best result of any of the Island representatives finishing 2nd in
the petite final. Ryde’s
Harvey Kirkby and Charlie Norman – with Ryde Coxswain – Ed Newnham were selected
to race in a
composite J14 Coxed Quad with two juniors from Shanklin – but could only finish
4th in the petite
final where Harvey aggravated an injury suffered in training the previous week –
which required
medical attention after the race and arguably effected their performance. Ryde’s
Jo Norman was
selected for the Boys J16 Coxed Quad in a composite crew with representatives
from Shanklin,
Southampton and Itchen – and they finished 6th in the petite final. The
contribution made by the
selected Juniors from Ryde helped the Wessex Region – which is the smallest in
the country to
achieve a reasonable result and is a clear indication of the advance in Junior
Rowing on the Island in
recent years.
The Club had hoped to have two masters’ scullers competing in the 31 mile Boston
Marathon –
unfortunately this was cancelled just two days before it was due to take place
because of the
excessive weed in the river. This was doubly unfortunate because the event was
being used as a
fund-raiser for the Clubs nominated charity - Naomi House Children’s Hospice
(Wessex
Children's Hospice Trust). Should you still wish to make a donation – in spite
of the cancelled race
– you can do through the Club “Just giving” page at - http://www.justgiving.com/Ryde-Rowing-Club0
Ryde Regatta
A successful Ryde Regatta was staged on Saturday, 4th June, with twelve Clubs in
attendance -
including all three Island Rowing Clubs. A near record entry of 130 crews and
scullers raced in coxed
fours, coxless pairs, coxless double sculls and single sculls over the 1920m
Regatta course off
Appley beach - racing towards the pier where they completed a racing turn before
racing back to the
start. A packed program of twenty races - including one re-row after a dead heat
in the Men's Senior
Fours, was crammed into the four and a half hours of available water. Conditions
were difficult but it
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was always rowable - a true Coastal Regatta - with one or two minor incidents
that were well handled
by the Ryde Inshore Rescue boat on duty supported by the Ryde Club's Safety boat
- which also
provided safety cover at Shanklin Regatta on the Sunday - which was disrupted
and curtailed by the
weather. Micky Ward from the Regatta's main sponsors - Ward House Financial
Services - presented
the Trophies and individual prizes to the winning crews - which included a
Shanklin/Ryde composite
Novice Ladies Crew - and a second place for the Ryde Men's Novice A crew.
Isle of Wight Rowing Forum and “Explore Rowing”
During August, following the delayed delivery of the boat package the three
Island Rowing Clubs,
acting together as the Isle of Wight Rowing Forum (IWRF) were finally able to
launch their "Explore
Rowing" project. This is British Rowing's innovative new "flag- ship" project
aimed at promoting
rowing in the local community. The IWRF is very grateful for all the support
they received during the
application process. As well as British Rowing and Sport England, the IW Council
Sports Unit helped
with project advice and coordination of financial grants – enabling the IWRF to
secure one of only fifty
packages being made available to rowing clubs across the country. The new
funding allowed the
IWRF to purchase a range of new and specially designed boats, perfect for
beginners and
experienced rowers alike which will be owned jointly by the three rowing clubs.
British Rowing’s
scheme will also help the clubs with the delivery of a new learn to row scheme
as well as a variety of
new activities which will range from social rowing events to personal
challenges. The project and the
new boats were launched at a ceremony held at the Ryde Clubhouse on Sunday, 14th
August with
Louise Attrill, MBE, Island Oarsman and Olympic gold medallist performing the
ceremony. If you
would like a boat named after you, your company or an individual there are
sponsorship opportunities
for all the IWRF boats – if you would like details of this opportunity please
contact Steve Bull on
019863 566481 – email – stephencbull@googlemail.com
The IWRF also staged a 2nd Junior Regatta at Newport in May - the format of the
event was to
encourage rowers from each club to compete alongside each other, rather than in
their regular crews.
Twenty three youngsters registered to compete, and crews were drawn by senior
club members. The
result was complete novices being able to join their more experienced
counterparts in a competitive,
but fun based event. Categories available were mixed quadruple sculls, mixed
double sculls, single
sculls and virus training sculls. The hope is that this will become at least an
annual event.
New Equipment.
The Club has been able to improve its land training equipment during the year –
with a significant
upgrade to its “fleet” of Ergos and some new and much safer weight training
equipment. Four new
sets of lightweights sculls have been purchased and the Club are “looking after”
three of the Explore
Rowing Boats – a Coastal double and two coastal single sculls on behalf of the
IWRF – although all
the Explore Rowing boats are available for Club use. The most significant
addition to the Clubs fleet
is a second hand coxless quad – which will allow the Club to compete more
effectively at river events
– especially in the “Masters” Regatta’s. The purchase of this boat to be named
“Johnnie Walker”
would not have been possible without the support of Club sponsor Carisbrooke
Shipping and Club
Vice President Ian Walker and his family. Unfortunately we not yet been able to
arrange a date for
the naming ceremony for this boat – but hope to do so in the near future.
Clubhouse and Bar
After a quick glance at the Club accounts you will quickly appreciate that one
of our major sources of
income, raising significantly more than fund raising or subscriptions, is the
Club Bar – and with the
decline in use of the facility by club members – the major contributor to the
bar profit is the use of the
Clubhouse for a range of different functions. Without this area of income the
Club would have to
substantially increase its rates of subscription and fees and curtail some of
its activities. It is therefore
critical for the Clubs future that we maintain this activity – and the biggest
potential threat to this is
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finding enough volunteer bar staff to cover functions (and general club
openings). So, while offering
the Clubs thanks to all those who do volunteer to do a bar duty – we would make
an appeal to all
members to help the club in this area by volunteering to do an occasional bar
duty. Training and
instructions will be given if needed. If you can help – even if it’s just once
or twice a year – please
contact Josie Bull on 01983 566481 – email – josiembull@googlemail.com
Members can hire the Clubhouse for functions – subject to certain restrictions
and conditions (for
example we don’t do 18th Birthday Parties) – at a very reasonable cost –
guideline costs for members
are - 6.30 to midnight - £60 both bars - £50 for front bar only – up to 11.00pm.
Later - £10 an hour.
Day-time – guide – (no bar) – am or pm - £30 to £40. All day - £60. All day &
evening (with bar) -
£150. Corkage - £4 a bottle. (not for toasts). There is a £100 returnable
deposit charged – against
damage or loss. The Clubhouse can be made available during the day for meetings
and
presentations – and has some audio visual equipment that can be made available
at a small
additional charge (PC projector, TV, screen etc...). The Club cannot provide
catering – and has
limited catering facilities – but we can recommend outside caterers we are used
to coping with the
Clubs limited facilities. To enquire about booking the clubhouse contact the Bar
manager – Steph
Hickman – on 613077 or steph.hickman1944@gmail.com
Partly in order to maintain and hopefully increase the number of functions the
club accommodates we
have, during the past year, upgraded the furniture in the back bar – moving the
best from their into
the main lounge and disposing of some of the older and damaged pieces.
Kit for Christmas
The Club has a range of kit available to buy (some branded) – which make ideal
Christmas presents!
PHOENIX OUTERWEAR.
24/7 Jacket [formerly Reflex Jacket/Fluid Jacket] = performance-orientated 'hardshell'
shape,
designed for in-boat use, yet suitable for cross-training [ie. cycling,
running]. Engineered to protect
the upper body from the elements [wind > rain > cold] without overheating. Uses
the latest generation
of technical stretch fabrics to allow unrestricted movement. Price: £70.
Cold Days Gilet [formerly the Elite Body] = thermalweight sleeveless gilet
designed for those 'cold
days'. Microfleece front, microfibre back with microfleece lining for added
warmth. Price: £48.
Dark Mornings Shirt [formerly the Elite Shirt/Fleece] = brand new semi-fitted
microfleece top with
neck zip and Meryl contrast binding / underarm panels. You wake up, it's a dark
winter morning, and
you've got to get up and head to the boathouse.... Price: £44.
SEVERN SKINWEAR (All in ones).
All SEVERN Skinwear garments are manufactured from an enhanced version of
performance Meryl
knitted specifically for Stitch by a UK mill. Importantly, the quality of all
the below is the same, it's just
the 'style' of the kit that changes [ie. the more complex designs, involving
more manufacturing time,
are more expensive!].
Alpha Suit (All in one) 'Unisuit' Price: £45.
Clubs racing kit, white top, blue shorts, three stripes.
COMBI POGIES - £22.
A set of 3 pogies means you can row either side or scull! The set has a bow side
hand, a stroke side
hand and the inner hand (double-sided).
BLAZER BADGES (Gold wire) - £13.
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CLUB TIES - £10.
RIGGER-JIGGERS - £3.
We have a limited amount of stock all of the above!
Please contact Steve Bull: 01983 566481, text on 07786 034941 or email
stephencbull@googlemail.com
We also still have very limited stocks of the old design – which are slightly
cheaper.
NO CREDIT. Cash or cheques to be made out to “Ryde Rowing Club”
Ryde Rowing Club 100 Club
There are still a few numbers available for just £12 per year. That’s only 25
pence a week and every
month you will have two chances of winning plus again at Christmas. Proceeds
have been used to
sponsor rowers, assist with boat expenses, equipment and general refurbishments
in the Club. Fish
& Chip suppers with varied and interesting guest speakers are held at The
Clubhouse throughout the
winter. For membership details please contact Ian Lennie on 01983 612877
Email addresses
Just a quick reminder to everyone – if you have an email address and received
this in the post then
please email the membership secretary – Steph Hickman on - steph.hickman1944@gmail.com
We
spend lots of money every year on printing and postage costs and we are
attempting to shrink this
amount as much as possible. Thank you in advance for your help and don’t forget
to email us to
receive the next newsletter by email!
Carole
Carole Hewison Telephone 01983 614385
61 St. Johns Road Email carolehewison@btinternet.com
Ryde
Isle of Wight
PO33 2RW
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