Durham Regatta’s Online Shop is now open for the sale of merchandise for collection over the weekend of the 2024 Regatta – Saturday June 8th and Sunday June 9th, 2024. Also available are entry tickets and parking permits which can be ordered online and collected from the Regatta car park on Friday, June 7th between[…]
Two Junior scullers from Durham ARC represented the club at the 2024 National Schools Regatta (NSR) at Dorney Lake over the weekend of May 24th to 26th and did the club proud by producing excellent performances to both reach the A final of the Championship single sculls. The NSR has become a mainstay of the[…]
The racing season continued in the Spring sunshine with Tees Regatta on Saturday, May 11th, and the Nottingham Regattas on May 11th and 12th. Tees Regatta 2024 Durham ARC had 25 entries at Tees Regatta, held on the 850 metre 4-lane buoyed course between the Tees Barrage and the River Tees Watersports Centre. Wins were[…]
At the 2024 Durham Regatta on June 8th and 9th our Grand Marquee is throwing open its doors for a weekend of shopping and boat repairs. In the heart of the athlete area you will find well loved traders, such as Square Blades, Five57 Sportsgear, OddBalls and more to be announced! Boat builders Janousek &[…]
A large entry of over 500 enjoyed some exciting racing in pleasant conditions at Durham City Regatta over the weekend of May 4th and 5th. The drier weather and lower river level made the shallow water near the start line more obvious but competitors in the main were able to avoid the buoyed off area[…]
The Senior Women and Masters Women went to the 8-lane course at Strathclyde Park for the Scottish Rowing Spring Regatta over the weekend of April 27th and 28th, always a favourite location with members of Northern clubs seeking an early season opportunity of some multi-lane racing. Durham ARC had three entries, the Seniors entering the[…]
Four members of the Junior squad came through Trials at Cambois Rowing Club on March 16th to earn places in the team to represent the Northern Region at the Junior Inter Regional Regatta (JIRR) at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham on April 20th. Results from the Trials are available here and other trials information can be found[…]
Cambridge University Boat Club enjoyed double success on the one weekend in the year when Rowing is most in the spotlight, taking both Men’s and Women’s Boat Races on Saturday, March 30th. The previous day had seen Cambridge secure another double of winning both the Men’s and Women’s Lightweight Boat Races. For a second year[…]
The winter head racing season drew to a close with entries from Durham ARC going to London for the Head of the River Race (HoRR) on Saturday, March 23rd and the Vesta Masters Head on Sunday, March 24th. The Senior Men were representing the club on the Tideway for a third consecutive year, this time[…]
Spring can’t arrive quickly enough for rowers for whom the winter season has been beset by cancellations and curtailments through challenging weather and water conditions. A succession of storms has left rivers in a constant state of flood and fast flowing water unsuitable for rowing, particularly the Thames, Severn and Trent with their large catchment[…]
For a second successive year Durham ARC alumni have been named in Cambridge University crews for the Men’s Boat Race. At the crew announcement for the 2024 Men’s and Women’s Boat Races which took place at Battersea Power Station on March 13th, Matt Edge was named in the stroke seat of the Cambridge Blue Boat[…]
On Friday, February 23rd Izzy Maddison from Durham ARC achieved 10th place out of 44 entrants in the Year 10 girls 5 minutes race at the 2024 National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC) at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds. Izzy was one of around 900 participants at the Northern edition of what[…]
A full entry of almost 400 enjoyed a splendid day of racing over 4 divisions at Durham Small Boats Head on Saturday, February 3rd, the main competition hosted by the club during the winter season. The event was given the go ahead thanks to the river level having fallen to near normal by the appointed[…]
The results from Durham Small Boats Head are available for Division 1, Division 2, Division 3 and Division 4, as well as full results combined over all four divisions with handicaps applied and event winners indicated. Additional reports can be found on Oar-Online.
The winter season started in fine style on the River Tyne on January 20th at Tyne United New Years Head, which is hosted jointly with Durham University Boat Club. Though the viability of the competition was in doubt for some time because of concerns about Storm Isha the decision to go ahead was vindicated, and[…]
Dates of Learn to Row courses for 2024 are now available on the website. The first course is for Juniors (11-16yrs), starting on Monday, February 19th, 2024 and continuing for 4 consecutive days – 19/02, 20/02, 21/02, 22/02, between 10:00-12:00 each day. The schedule of Junior course dates for the year is as follows –[…]
On January 11th 2024 Ian Shepherd achieved the remarkable milestone of 71 years membership of Durham ARC which was marked with a celebratory paddle in a double with Barry Hudson. Ian joined the club in 1953 and can be seen in the above Club photo of that year on the back row 5th from the[…]
The poster for Durham Small Boats Head on Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 is now available here. Entries will open on Friday, January 12th and close at 7pm on Friday, January 26th but may be suspended earlier if the safety limit of 400 is reached.
The year has been a mixed one with good progress and many successes on the water despite several events being cancelled or curtailed because of adverse weather and conditions, while the state of our rivers has given rise to some concern. Winter 2023 started brightly with 12 entries for Tyne United New Years Head in[…]
Umpires are essential in order to run all of the competitions in the racing calendar and we are very grateful to the umpires who give so much of their time voluntarily to allow members to compete. Here at Durham we run some of the largest competitions in the Northern region and Durham ARC has always[…]
Roger Stainforth was unable to take part in the British Rowing Indoor Championships this year but plans to be back in action for next year’s Championships when he moves up an age category. Before the Championships which were held on December 9th at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham as part of FitFest 2023 Fergus[…]
Rutherford Head lived up to its reputation for providing cold weather competition as over 250 crews from as far afield as Cambridge, London and Aberdeen took to the Tyne on Saturday December 2nd in temperatures that remained below freezing point for much of the day. With the north of England covered in a blanket of[…]
The 2023 Long Distance Sculling Series (LDS) finally reached its conclusion with a rearranged date in Durham on November 11th, after suffering consecutive cancellations at Tyne, Berwick and Wansbeck brought about by too much water, too much wind or both. Hence only three of the six scheduled LDS rounds and two of the four associated[…]
Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (ASBH) went ahead on Saturday, November 11th, a week later than planned, thanks to sterling efforts to clear debris blocking the passage through Elvet Bridge in the wake of Storm Ciaran. Indeed, the double header of the ASBH and the final round of the Northern Rowing Council’s Long Distance Sculling[…]
Results of the 2023 Durham Long Distance Sculling head are available here, and those from the Autumn Small Boats Head, combined over the two divisions are here, showing finish times, handicap adjustments and event winners.
The annual fireworks display on Sunday, November 5th proved a great success with tickets selling out online days in advance and attracting around 1500 on what was a very busy weekend. Food and drink was on sale throughout the evening. Thanks to everyone for their their continued support.
The 2023 Fours Head and Veteran Fours Head both fell victim to Storm Ciaran, the second of two named storms to hit the UK in as many weeks. The Veteran Fours Head had been scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 4th, and the Fours Head on Sunday, November 5th, both on the Tideway in[…]
The poster for the 2023 Durham Autumn Small Boats Head (ASBH) and the Durham round of the Long Distance Sculling Series (LDS) on Saturday, November 4th is available here. Racing in the LDS will take place in the morning followed by two divisions of the ASBH in the afternoon, all over 1800 metres, Entries will[…]
The 2023 Sunday League season reached its conclusion with the final round surviving a late weather scare to go ahead at Hexham on Sunday, October 1st. In a curtailed season of six scheduled rounds rather than the usual eight this was to be the only skills round. The League got off to a tentative start[…]
The 2023 Long Distance Sculling (LDS) Series got underway on Saturday, September 30th with the first of the six rounds being hosted by Tees Rowing Club, a double header with Tees Small Boats Head (SBH), both contested over the winding 5km course on the River Tees. The morning LDS attracted over 200 entries and the[…]