Durham City Regatta draw
The draw for Durham City Regatta is now available. Please remember to read the Competitors Instructions along with the Saturday and Sunday draws.
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DARC lead in Explore Series
Round 3 of the 2016 Explore Series (the competition aimed at the novice and ‘recreational’ end of the spectrum and until last year known as the Sunday League) took place at Tees Rowing Club on May 1st. This was the dreaded but highly anticipated annual test of sculling skills which had seen the 3 Durham[…]
War of the Roses 2016
Twelve Off-peak and Masters members from Durham ARC attended this year’s War of the Roses scratch regatta at Bradford ARC. Coinciding with St. George’s Day and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death it was a suitably momentous occasion, particularly for DARC’s Vaughan Gordon who emerged with 2 medals after his two crews emerged undefeated after[…]
Durham City Regatta entries closed
Entries for Durham City Regatta are now closed. The draw will be published on or after May 3rd 2016.
Help for Heroes
For the past few weeks the club has been running a weekly course in partnership with British Rowing and Help for Heroes, aimed at forces veterans from Phoenix House in Catterick. The course is led by Debbie Connolly. Some of those attending have expressed a wish to continue after the course so it is an[…]
Boat Race Ball 2016
The 2nd Boat Race Ball took place on 26 March 2016. After the drama the previous day in the Boat Race itself when the Cambridge women somehow managed to row themselves out from under the water, and the Oxford men won by 2 and a half lengths, we wondered if we would have as exciting an[…]
John A Short (1925-2016)
The funeral of John Short took place on April 13th. John was a long-standing member of Durham ARC and was in his 91st year when he died on March 29th. He first joined the club in the late 1940s, after being in the RAF, and served subsequently in several administrative roles. He was a member[…]
North-East rowers move closer to Rio after Europeans selection
Olympic champion Kat Copeland will reprise her promising partnership with Charlotte Taylor after four rowers from the North East were named in the GB Rowing Team for next month’s European Championships. Double Olympian Jess Eddie continues in the women’s eight and fellow Durham rower Will Fletcher will once again race alongside Richard Chambers in the[…]
Durham City Regatta
The prospectus for Durham City Regatta 2016 is now available for Saturday and Sunday.
Access to Water
On March 10th contractors arrived to start work on the first phase of the extension of the club’s landing stage. The Access to Water project is a major undertaking that will continue throughout 2016. Following a protracted planning process involving extensive negotiations with the planning authority and other bodies including the Environment Agency (EA) final[…]
Tideway Heads 2016
March sees the culmination of the Heads season with the University Boat Races this year scheduled for Easter Sunday. Before that the Tideway welcomes rowers from across the UK and around the world whose season reaches its climax with one of the other annual Tideway Heads for Eights. Women’s Eights Head of the River Race[…]
Hope invited to GB Spring Assessment
As well as competing in this year’s Women’s Eights Head of the River Race DARC’s Hope Cessford continues her excellent progress on the pathway towards GB Junior team selection, after the February assessment at Boston being one of only 10 female sweep rowers in the country invited to the GB Spring Assessment at Nottingham. Selection[…]
Further landslip at Pelaw Wood
There has been an additional landslip on the Pelaw Wood site which is due to the natural steepness of the slope. Durham County Council are currently working to stabilise the ground and are carrying out further investigations and analysis of the situation, to allow them to continue to work safely on some areas of the[…]
Learn to Row 2016
Details of this year’s adult and junior learn to row courses are now available. Adult Courses (16+): 8 weeks, £95 (inc. British Rowing handbook & registration, & t-shirt) Fridays 6.30pm – 8.30pm 1st April – 20th May Sundays 4.30pm – 6.30pm 3rd April – 22nd May Fridays 6.30pm – 8.30pm 17th June – 5th August[…]
Durham Small Boats Head 2016
After an enforced break due to winter floods rowers were able to take to the River Wear in Durham on February 6th for Durham Small Boats Head, a time trial over 1800 metres, hosted by Durham Amateur Rowing Club on an iconic stretch of water in the city centre passing under Elvet Bridge at the[…]
Donation to Bradford weir repair fund
Being reliant on a weir for rowing themselves Durham rowers are very mindful of the situation in which Bradford rowers find themselves following the recent flood damage that led to the breach and collapse of the weir on the River Aire. They have therefore responded wholeheartedly to Bradford’s plea for help in funding the necessary[…]
Pelaw Wood landslip restoration project update February 2016
Durham County Council has issued the following statement Work continues to progress well despite recent heavy rain, cold weather and snow over the Christmas period. The slipped soil and debris from the landslip has been removed to allow works to start on the steadying of the fallen section of slope. Our contractor has begun to[…]
Draw for Durham Small Boats Head
The draw for Durham Small Boats Head 2016 is now available. Please also read the Competitors Instructions.
Durham Small Boats Head – entries closed
Entries for Durham Small Boats Head are now closed. The draw will be published on or after February 2nd 2016.
Durham Small Boats Head volunteers needed
Durham Small Boats Head takes place on February 6th and as always the event relies on volunteers for its success so please step forward to fill one of the required roles. See the Job descriptions here or on the notice board for details and sign up on the sheet in the clubhouse.
Revised Code of Conduct
The Club’s Code of Conduct for all members, coaches, officials and volunteers has been revised. The new version can be found here or on the Downloads page.
Durham Small Boats Head 2016
The prospectus for Durham Small Boats Head 2016 is available here. Entry is open on BROE.
Desmond and Frank kept at bay
Sustained high temperatures and unprecedented rainfall during December have taken their toll on the River Wear with flood defences being put into place twice within 3 weeks, the Environment Agency recording levels of around 2.90 metres on December 6th and again on the 26th, compared to the normal river level of around 0.50 metres. This[…]
Christmas Jumper Row
A new event on the social calendar took place the weekend before Christmas. The Christmas Jumper Row was devised and organised by Vanessa as a fun festive occasion to start off the holiday season by engaging members with the added spice of an element of competition. Timed to take place after Saturday morning training and[…]
DARC strikes gold at BRIC 2015
Durham ARC had a successful day at the 2015 British Rowing Indoor Championships held at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London on December 12th, bringing home 3 gold medals, with Joyce Collett winning in the Lightweight Women’s category for ages 60-64 over both the 2km and 500 metres distances, and Roger Stainforth securing victory in[…]
Hope at the GB Junior trials
Sixteen year old Durham ARC sculler Hope Cessford took the first step in her quest for selection for the Great Britain Junior Squad, finishing 14th out of 87 contenders in the first assessment time trial of the 2015/16 season in a single scull over a 5km course on the River Witham at Boston on November[…]
Veteran Fours Head win
There was a great win in the Women’s Masters D category at the Veteran Fours Head of the River Race on Sunday November 8th for Durham ARC’s Gill Prescott and Helen McMillan in a coxless quad composite crew with Joy Skipper of Upper Thames and Lisa Kalal from Mortlake Anglian and Alpha Boat Club. The[…]
LDS Victor Ludorum
The sixth and final round of the 2015 Long Distance Sculling Series took place at South Hylton on November 7th and produced wins for DARC crews in the J16 coxless quad and women’s IM3 coxed quad. Two more wins saw Andy Jaggard take the Masters F single and John Lund the Masters G single sculls.[…]
North East Indoor Rowing Championships 2015
The indoor rowing championships season got underway with the first 2km event, the North East Indoor Rowing Championships, taking place at Durham University’s Graham Sports Centre at Maiden Castle on November 4th, a good opportunity to gauge how preparations for the British Rowing Indoor Championships (BRIC) in London on December 12th are going. DARC[…]
Results of Long Distance Sculls and Autumn Small Boats Head
The Durham round of the Long Distance Sculling Series went ahead on Saturday October 31st after some initial concern about the river conditions. Several clubs in the Northern region also offer an Autumn Small Boats Head on the same day to make a double-header, with DARC’s first venture attracting 125 entries of all boat types.[…]