After the disapointment of a cancelled Chester-le-Street Regatta three weeks earlier the rain stayed away allowing both days of Durham City Regatta to go ahead as planned. A large entry combined with an army of volunteers contributed to one of DARC’s most profitable and successful regattas to date, warm sunshine attracting a healthy crowd of onlookers to the riverbanks on Sunday, with the added bonus of the newly extended landing stage available for the first time to speed up boating.
Durham ARC’s Juniors had a successful weekend. The J18 boys, rowing their novice eight of Josh Stephenson, Matthew Skinner, Peter Dowsett, Calum Silvester, Alex Priestley-Leach, Aidan Crilley, Matthew Edge, Harry Coe and cox Rebecca Jackson, won the event after three closely fought races, then half the crew rowed Elite quads and the other half (Crilley, Dowsett, Priestley-Leach, Silvester and cox Rebecca Jackson) competed in the Novice Coxed quads and won that one too.
On Saturday the J14 girls crew of Kate Henderson, Millie McIntyre, Gabby Suggett, Jess Cooper and cox Catherine Musgrave won the Women’s J14 coxed quad sculls, while on Sunday there was success for Alannah Baldwin, Bethan Hall, Elise Goddard, Katie Strangward and cox Mollie Coe in the Women’s J15 coxed four, and for Thomas Taylor and Ben Brown in the J13 boys double sculls. The J14 girls quad won again on Sunday, this time with a crew of Catherine Musgrave, Natasha Wearmouth, Gabby Suggett, Jess Cooper and cox Millie McIntyre.
More photos from Saturday and Sunday