News

• Second post 30 August 2026 — A second seeded post, so list views have more than one row to lay out.
• Hello world 30 August 2026 — A seeded blog post, so the blog list and detail routes have something to render locally.
• Head of the river: the entry list is out 28 August 2026 — Nine crews from the club, two of them junior, and the first eight we have entered in five years.
• New blades for the junior squad 24 August 2026 — Twelve sculls and a set of sweep blades, paid for out of the ergo challenge and delivered last Tuesday.
• Off-season programme: the loft is open every evening 19 August 2026 — Ergos, weights and a rota that finally covers every night of the week — the off-season timetable is up, and it is the fullest one the club has run.
• The learn-to-row course is full — again 12 August 2026 — The course filled in nine days and the waiting list is now longer than the course itself.
• Ergo challenge raises €4,200 for the boat fund 5 August 2026 — Fourteen hours, sixty-one rowers and one machine that needed a new chain by the end of it.
• Coaching & crews — the "long base" plan 27 July 2026 — Two coaches, three squads and a deliberately dull first block: how the off-season programme is put together, and why it looks like that.
• Safety refresher: cold water and what it does 17 July 2026 — Water below ten degrees takes your breath before it takes your strength. The rules for the next two months, and why they exist.
• A weekend in Ghent, and what we learned 10 July 2026 — Two days of racing on a course nobody had seen before, three finals, and a long conversation about warm-up timing on the way home.
• Four finals, one broken rigger and a club record 28 June 2026 — The club has never put four crews into four finals on the same afternoon, and until Saturday nobody seriously thought it would.
• Bar & kitchen: new opening hours from next month 14 June 2026 — Open every evening the club is, closed on Mondays, and hot food until nine on race weekends.
• Masters take the double at the national championships 2 June 2026 — Gold in the coxed four and the quad on the same afternoon, from a squad that trains at six in the morning because that is when the water is empty.
• Volunteers wanted for the club regatta 22 May 2026 — Eighty jobs, four hundred visitors and one weekend that only works if enough people say yes in advance.
• The season opens on the first Saturday of next month 30 April 2026 — Boats on the water from seven, breakfast in the loft from nine, and the first outings for new members in the afternoon.
• The eight is back from the boatyard 16 April 2026 — It came back on Thursday, after five months away with a cracked rib and a soft patch under bow seat.
• Membership fees for the coming year 3 April 2026 — A three per cent rise across the board, a new student rate, and the reasoning behind both.
• The boathouse reopens after eighteen months 15 March 2026 — New floors, a dry loft and a roof that no longer leaks over bay three — the restoration is finished and the doors are open again.
• Off-season maintenance: what to expect in the shed 17 February 2026 — Four boats off the water, the racks rearranged and a working party every Saturday for the next two months.
• Remembering Jan Verhoeven 29 January 2026 — Fifty-two years a member, coach to three generations of juniors, and the person who taught most of us to hold a blade.