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Christmas Pudding Race 2011
The 'star of the show' Glenys Pontings' fabulous Christmas Cake . more
Wycliffe Small Boats Head 2011
Congratulations to our medal winning crews and one near miss who rowed at Wycliffe on Saturday Gold Jun 15 1x Owen Baker by 18. more
Wallingford Head
Avon County Masters F coxless 4 are fastest Masters crew at Wallingford Head of the River Race, Sunday 27 November 2011 Avon County Rowing Club’s Veteran F coxless four raced in their last major event of 2011 at the Wallingford Head of the River Race on Sunday. more
Winning weekend
Henley Masters Regatta Yes another win for our Masters F coxless four of Chris, Antony, Jim and Derek! A weekend away in Wales Congratulations to all the ACRC crews who raced at Llandaff. more
Veteran Fours Head
Coxless 4 retain title at Veteran Fours Head, London Putney, Saturday 13 November 2010 Avon County Rowing Club’s Veteran F coxless four won at the Veteran Fours Head on Saturday. more
Upton Primary Regatta 12 September 2010
A good introduction to racing Avon County sent a mens' crew to the Upton Primary Regatta, held on 12 September 2010. This regatta has been specially designed for people who are new to racing. more
Veteran Fours Head
Avon County coxless 4 win at Veteran Fours Head, London Avon County Rowing Club’s Veteran F coxless four won at the Tideway Veteran Fours Head on Sunday. In Veteran rowing, this race is one of the year’s iconic events. more
Monkton Bluefriars Head of the River Race
AVON COUNTY RC HOST MAJOR ROWING EVENT AT SALTFORD Avon County Rowing Club played host last weekend to the 39th annual Monkton Blue Friars Small Boats Head of the River Race at its Boathouse at Saltford. more
Junior Training Camp - September 2009
Nineteen junior members and coaches travelled up to the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham for a training camp in September. We arrived on Friday night (just in time for supper) and stayed at the centre. more
Notices
Junior Registration for 2009-10 season – Tuesday 29th September Please try to attend this as it really helps us to 'get it all done' in one go. We have held meetings in the past but would like to try a slightly different format this year, whereby parents/carers can drop in at the club any time between 6pm and 8pm. more
Another Great Weekend!
Sunny and Windy Avon County RC rowers and coaches headed back to Nottingham over the weekend of 25/26 July as part of the English and Welsh Home Countries Regatta teams. Former Junior Sean Bathe Taylor represented England in the 2- with CBRC crew-mate Billy Downey. more
Not just another wet and windy weekend in Nottingham
Avon Gold and selection to England and Wales HCI teams Avon County Rowing Club took possibly its largest ever entry to the National Rowing Championships held from 17 -19 July at the National Watersport Centre. more
11th and 12th July - what a weekend!
Veteran Henley 2009 Avon County Rowing Club’s Veteran F coxless four won at the Henley Veteran Regatta on Saturday. The oversubscribed international event, raced over 1000 metres on the boomed Henley course, took place over two days of often intense side-by-side racing. more
Thames Valley Park and Ironbridge Regattas
Thames Valley Park Regatta This is held on the Thames in Reading. It is raced over 500m with three lanes, so it provides lots of exciting racing. As we expected the standard was very high and several of our crews just missed out on making finals. more
Winners take all!
National Veteran Championships These are held in Nottingham at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrpont over 1000m. Having been abandoned by their usual fours partners, Jim and Chris bravely decided to have a go in a Veteran 'F' coxless pair - veteran races are all divided up by age, Vet 'A' being the youngest. more
Thaming the Thames!
Womens Head of the River Race- 7th March 2009 For the second year running ACRC sent a crew to London to compete in the Women's Head of the River Race. Held over the famous boat race course on the Thames, it was a formidable challenge!! After an early start that should only ever be seen if a holiday is the reason, we set off to London. more
City of Bristol Head Race
Eleven crews raced at City of Bristol Head of the river on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day, the event ran well and was on time! Congratulations to Gabriel and the WJ15 4X+ (Molly, Laura, Katherine and CharlotteF, coxed by KateM) who won. more
Christmas Pudding Head
The Annual Christmas Pudding head Race took place on Sunday 21st December at Saltford. Members from Minerva-Bath RC joined us and the event saw four eights and four quads race over the 1500m course. more
Wycliffe Small Boats Head
Twenty two crews braved the Siberia of Gloucester on Saturday - only to find that is had turned into the Carribean for the day! Glorious sunshine soon turned the frosty ground of Wycliffe into a minor quagmire as we assembled our boats! It was like a regatta - people were sunbathing on the towpath, eating ice creams as they strolled along the bank . more
Pangbourne Junior Sculls
Nine crews travelled to the Child Beale Wildife Park at Pangbourne, south of Reading for the Pangbourne Junior Sculling Race. The event was nearly called off as we have had so much rain in the week leading up to the event and it was a soggy day to say the least. more
Veterans under fire at Ross Regatta
Chris and Jim competed in veteran F pairs at Ross Regatta at the weekend: 'We won on Sunday at Ross! Hereford pair destroyed - river safe again. It was over before it began. more
Wellsway Festival
Eighteen year 7's came and gave sculling a try on July 17th! They had a great day - thanks to the coaches who looked after them for the day. Here are some pics: . more
National Championships 2008
The National Championships were held in Nottingham last weekend. Despite the wind threatening to blow our tents away, racing was completed on all three days - the stiff headwind meaning that times were alot slower than usual! The club had crews in several events. more
Welsh Selection
Rosie and HannahO spent a soggy weekend in Monmouth at the Welsh Junior Womens selection trials. This is where the team for the home countries match later this month will be chosen. more
Recent Regattas
We have had a busy few weeks recently with crews competing at all sorts of events ... National Veteran Championships Our intrepid Veteran E (average age 55) coxless four made the annual pilgrimage to Nottingham for the National Veteran Championships. more
Wessex Invitation Regatta
Twentysix crews made the annual pilgrimage down to Bryanston School near Blandford Forum for the Wessex Invitation Regatta last Sunday. As usual, the sun shone and everyone had a great time racing over the nationally recognised distance of 270m! We contested 18 events - and won 5 of them! This is despite the fact that of the 31 rowers who took part, 23 of them had never raced at a regatta before! Everyone raced well with lots of crews getting through rounds and into finals. more
B&NES staff have a go at rowing!
When we signed onto the Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Get Active Scheme I'm not sure we really knew what we were letting ourselves in for! B&NES are keen to get people more active and have started their campaign by targetting their own staff and offering taster sessions for them to try out new activities. more
Womens Head of the River
When Penny arrived at slough Holiday Inn with the boat trailer the night before WHORR we (Penny, Sal, Ann L, and Dina O) battled with the wind and rain to park the trailer, with the awful thought at the back of our heads that there was no way that the race was going to go ahead, however the next morning dawned bright and cold with a slight wind to wake us all up. more
City of Bristol Head Race
Eight Avon crews raced in the historic Bristol Docks over the traditional 3000m winding course on Sunday. All areas of the club were represented with Veteran, Junior and Women's crews all competing. more
Annual Dinner
The Annual dinner will be held on March 8th (the evening of our head race) at the Old Mill Hotel, Bathampton. We are very fortunate to have secureed Alison Mobray - Olympic Silver medalist from the womens quad - at the Athens Olympic to speak. more
Fun and frolics!
Bryanston School and City of Bristol RC came over to Saltford today for a practise head race. Three divisions in glorious sunshine - and no swimmers! Well done! Results are here . more
WJ16 eight triumph!
Five crews braved the 'Siberia of Gloucester' for the annual challenge that is the Wycliffe Big Head! 4500m of 'still' water on the Sharpeness Canal. Everyone did well but special mention must go to the WJ16 8o who won their class. more
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