We’ve had a week of SRTR Wave 4, with up to 87 boating slots now available each day. Thanks to the SRTR team for continuing to facilitate this process to enable members to safely enjoy our sport.

Nearly all of our juniors are back onto the water; Huw and Liam have completed their assessments of their WJ14-15 and J14-16 groups and Adrian ran his first session for the younger group today. Katerina’s W/J16-18 group continues to be well represented and are building up water-time. Thanks to all our coaches and session supervisors for facilitating this. 

We will be running drills for less-confident-in-a-single adults next week, and have arranged some coaching for beginners and improvers from the Rec. and Daytime squads, so that they may all return to the water in singles with confidence.

British Rowing has made a submission to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in relation to the ‘teamsport’ aspects of rowing, relating particularly to crew boats. We await their feedback with interest, recognising that a sweep-single has yet to be invented.

For those booking session slots please: adhere to slot and pontoon times; if you cannot attend your session, notify Jim in advance (we are still getting no shows which impacts session supervisors or outing buddies); be judicious with ‘prime time’ slots (particularly 0700 and 0800 starts) and consider others who may not be able to row at other times, or also prefer an early morning outing.

A big thank you to Laura and Sue who cleared up broken glass from outside the boathouse last week, and frequently empty the bins of non-members’ refuse.

BRIC 2020 dates are yet to be announced (as with all other BR competitions), but some of our members are starting to line up training programmes. Adaptive squad captain Dan has suggested we set up virtual training cohorts to support each other. Please contact him if interested.

Stay safe, support each other.

Nick