The younger juniors went to Bradford Sprint Regatta on Saturday June 25th. With 18 different combinations of girls in doubles and quads taking part in a total of 8 events Mark, Debbie and Ray had an extremely busy day getting crews on and off the water. The older girls worked well organising themselves in rigging,[…]
Durham County Council has issued an update on progress with the Pelaw Wood landslip. Works are progressing well to stabilise the original landslip, we have found a solution to repair the additional landslip and continue the challenging work to stabilise the bankside as soon as possible. The additional work means we are currently aiming to complete the work and re-open[…]
The Northern Explore Series, now in its fifth year, broke new ground on June 5th, visiting England’s northernmost rowing club at Berwick-on-Tweed for the first time. Berwick acquired 2 stable boats last year, aptly named Royal Tweed and Royal Border, enabling them to host an event. One of the features of the competition, for novice[…]
Durham ARC’s Juniors squad had a successful weekend at Durham Regatta on June 11th and 12th, with wins in 4 events at the prestigious annual event. On Saturday Aidan Rushforth continued his outstanding form, winning through 3 rounds to take victory in the J18 single sculls. After their win the previous week at the Metropolitan[…]
Durham ARC achieved notable success at this year’s British Rowing Masters Championships Regatta last weekend. The Regatta takes place at the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham and is for competitors in the older age ranges with events categorised according to age bands to ensure fair competition. Around 1500 competitors with ages ranging[…]
North-East quartet Kat Copeland, Jess Eddie, Will Fletcher and Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell will continue their preparations for Rio 2016 this weekend by representing the GB Rowing Team at the World Cup in Poznan, Poland – the last big international test before the Olympic Games. It is a massive competition for Reilly-O’Donnell, who has been selected in[…]
UPDATE – due to unfortunate circumstances the Formula Rowing Open has been cancelled. Please see www.formularowing.com/ for further information. Formula Rowing‘s inaugural event takes place on Sunday 19th June at Stockton-on-Tees. The Formula Rowing Open is the exciting start of the rowing revolution jovially dubbed #WeRowInCircles, and DARC members are being invited to take part.[…]
At this year’s Durham Regatta on June 11th and 12th Keith Yates celebrates 40 years as the event commentator and 60 years since he joined Durham ARC as a cox. Originally from Langley Moor Keith first took part in Durham Regatta as a schoolboy in 1951 and has been a fantastic supporter of the event[…]
Barry Hudson initially joined Durham ARC in 1959. In 1967 when the club had a membership of only 35 (all men) he began his voluntary career. He was appointed Captain in 1972 and since then has held virtually every committee post at the club, including Treasurer, Vice-Captain, Regatta Secretary, Umpire, Press Officer and Trustee in[…]
Durham ARC’s Juniors squad took part in the National Schools Regatta, held last weekend on the 8-lane 2012 Olympic rowing lake at Eton Dorney, gaining valuable experience and bringing credit to the club. Three crews from the J14, J15 and J16s entered their age group events while two scullers entered for Championship events. Coached by[…]
As well as England’s notable World Cup success 1966 marked the first of three victories for John Appleby, then a schoolboy at Durham School, in the coveted Grand Challenge Cup at Durham Regatta. Fifty years on John is still competing for Durham ARC, recently winning the masters single sculls at Durham City Regatta, defeating Andy[…]
Durham Regatta takes place over the weekend of June 11th and 12th and this year the organisers are offering two prizes of £100 in vouchers for the best entries in a video competition. The objective is to provide video content for inclusion on the Durham Regatta website http://www.durham-regatta.org.uk/ which is to be relaunched following this[…]
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[…]
Durham ARC’s Junior boys represented the Northern Region in the J16 coxless quad sculls in the Junior Inter-Regional Regatta (JIRR) at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham on April 23rd. The Regatta is for ages up to J16 and is contested over a 1500m course between crews from each of the 12 British Rowing regions[…]
Durham rower Jess Eddie wants the new-look GB Rowing Team women’s eight to show they remain Europe’s leading contenders for an Olympic medal when the 2016 racing season begins this weekend. GB were the top European crew at last year’s World Championships as they finished just outside the medals behind the United States, New Zealand[…]
Following the success of similar events last year it was decided to stage a scratch regatta where all DARC members were invited to sign up for a place in either an eight (for seniors) or a quad (for juniors) for a series of friendly races. May Day Bank Holiday was chosen as the date and[…]
The draw for Durham City Regatta is now available. Please remember to read the Competitors Instructions along with the Saturday and Sunday draws.
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[…]
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[…]
Entries for Durham City Regatta are now closed. The draw will be published on or after May 3rd 2016.
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
The prospectus for Durham City Regatta 2016 is now available for Saturday and Sunday.
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]