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| Push
the Boat Out - Sat 18th May
We are taking part in
Clyde Mursheils 'Push the Boat out' Day on Saturday. If you fancy
giving rowing a try give them a call on 01505 842 882 and book yourself
a rowing try out session. Sessions are limited and it's first come,
first served so don't delay.
The sessions must be
booked in advance and are for people who are new to the sport. |
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| Committee
Meeting Minutes
We now have the minutes
from Committee meetings up on our webpage. They are linked from
the Club Documents Page or just click here. |
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| Thames
Row 2013
David McMillan and John
McKinney are now well on their way up the Thames on their Charity
Row. You can follow all of their progress on their Facebook
page and through Lesley's Twitter
Feed. You can support them by donating on their Just
giving page.
They are rowing in aid
of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is the name given to a group of eye
disorders that affect a layer of the retina, the light sensitive
lining at the back of the eye. The millions of special cells that
make up the retina slowly deteriorate. The eye loses its ability
to transmit pictures to the brain. David suffers from RP along with
two others in his family.
With your support, their
aim in Thames Row 2013 is to raise a substantial sum of money to
maintain the pace of research into RP so that a cure for this distressing
eye complaint can be found, and so help future generations worldwide. |
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| Strathclyde
Park Regatta - Saturday 27th/28th April
Well done to all those
who competed at Strathclyde Park Regatta. Conditions were ok on
the Saturday but truly horrendous on the Sunday and a great deal
of credit should be given to all the crews who went out and competed
in them. Fortunately it was nice and warm up in the tower and it
was a joy to see some brilliant racing. Selected club results are
now up on the Racing page and full results
can be found on Scottish
Rowings results page. |
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| Nithsdale
Regatta
CSRC Juniors enjoyed
a successful day's racing at Nithsdale Regatta on Saturday 13th
April. Gavin, Laura and Caitlin continued their winning ways with
convincing victories in their age group singles as well as when
they joined up forces in doubles with Laura and Gavin easily winning
the Mix 2x and Caitlin and Gavin convincingly winning the J18 2x.
Our WJ14 4x+ had a very
competitive race narrowly losing out to a strong crew from Chester
le Street. It was a great race to watch and the crew provided a
challenge to the eventual winners right through to the end of the
race. Congratulations to cox Joy who had to step in to the crew
at the last minute replacing Eloise who was injured and also to
Harry for stepping in as cox.
Our WJ15 4x+ also raced
a very competitive race against another strong Chester le Street
crew. Harry steered an excellent line and our girls who have never
rowed together as a crew before this race, jelled well, with excellent
timing and composure and they pushed Chester le Street's lead throughout
the race.
Harry had a great race
in the J12 1x. He had expected to race in an aqua jog and has not
been in a single since last summer. With complete composure and
speed, he raced his single and was only a boat length behind his
opposition.
It was a great regatta,
with strong opposition in all races especially from the English
Clubs who attended and it was enjoyed by all our Juniors and their
supporting parents who travelled down to watch.

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| Boat
Maintenance Day - Saturday 20th April
We are having a Boat
Maintenance day on the 20th of April. It will start when the first
boats come off the water after their session and carry on as long
as people are willing to be there. We desperately need this to ensure
we have up to scratch boats to compete in this sprint season.
Please consider extending
your time down at the club by a couple of hours to help out after
your session. We need people to check over boats, replace screws,
sort out cables and lots of small important jobs. You don't need
to be an experienced boat fixer to help out and it makes all the
difference if everyone gets stuck in. Thanks.... |
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| Clyde
Head - Saturday 30th March
Another successful day
for our juniors at yesterday's head races.
Gavin Horsburgh remains undefeated in this winter's head races,
following up his wins at Clydesdale and Inverness with a win in
the J18 singles. Caitlin Horsburgh followed with a win in the W
J18 singles.
Laura McDonald rowing with big sis Emma won the W J18 double. Laura,
again with Emma and Clare Hiddleston won the W Open Quad which was
the overall fastest boat in the third division.
Clare and Emma although both still club members now represent Glasgow
Uni Boat Club.
Thanks
to Duncan Walker for results. |
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| Capsize
Drill - Sunday 17th March 4.30pm
Well done to all who
came to the Capsize Drill. Another successful drill with no rower
left behind!
Big thanks to Martin,
Campbell, Louise, Caitlin and Gavin for helping out and making it
possible and to all at Garnock Pool. |
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| Sainsbury's
Active Kids Voucher Scheme
We need your vouchers!
CSRC has registered with
Sainsburys so we can use these vouchers to get new fitness equiptment.
If you shop at Sainsburys please collect the vouchers and drop them
down at the clubhouse. Thanks! |
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| Membership
renewal - now overdue
Membership fees were
due at the end of January. You can now download the renewal
form here as well as additional
member forms and additional
under 18 membership forms (pdf's). Please make sure you fill
in a form for each person you are making an application for.
Any problems
or questions about membership
applications can be emailed to the
membership secretary or ask a member of the committee. |
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| Clydesdale
4's and 8's Head and GUBC Western Head
It's been really good
to see CSRC entering 8's into the head races this year and Congratulations
to all the crews involved.
We had a MRes2 8+ entered
into division 2 of the Clydesdale 4's and 8's Head. They came in
15th in a time of 15:26. A good outing for our mens section and
a marker for the year ahead.
At GUBC's Western 8's
Head we had 2 boats in the first division. A composite entry with
CSRC/Stirling/GRC were the only VetB crew but ended up 3rd fastest
boat of the day with 18:28 at the end of the 5km course. Our VetC
crew which was a CSRC/GRC composite coped well despite a clash early
on and came 8th with 21:03 (before handicap).
A slightly rejigged composite
crew (CSRC/CARC/Stirling/GRC) won the 2nd Division in a time of
18:24 which was the 2nd fastest time of the day.
Congratulations again
to all of our crews, next up is the Clyde Head at the end of March. |
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| Important
dates for the diary
Saturday
1st June - CSRC
regatta
Sat 27th July
- Fundraising Bag Pack
We have managed to book a Bag-packing day at Morrisons in Johnstone
on Saturday 27th July from 10am - 4pm. Please reserve this day or
part thereof in your diaries to come along and help CSRC raise some
funds by offering to pack bags at the tills. We will need all the
help we can get
so all holidays cancelled ;) - Thanks to Maria for her help in obtaining
this opportunity.
Saturday 30th
November - Club Ceilidh
Our annual rowing club
Ceilidh will be on 30th of November this year. Please put the date
in your diary. Tickets will be on sale from around the end of October. |
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| Scottish
Indoor Champs
We had a big club entry
at the Scottish Champs this year. Congratulations to everyone who
went and took part and Thank You to the many members who went over
to give them your support.
Congratulations must
go to Rachel who won the WOver40 Hwt category with a new British
Record of 3.26.4. We had 2 entries in the MOpen 2k for the first
time in a long time and they both finished in the top 20! Stuart
came in 5th and Steve 19th, a big Well done for that. Fiona Bell
was 2nd in the Girls J18 2k and was also part of the Girls J18 Team,
with Megan and Caitlin that won their event. Other selected club
results can be found on the results page. |
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| Club
Fundraising - Earn as you shop!
To help support the club
if you are buying anything on line just go ahead and register as
an individual at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk
the link will take you to the CSRC page.
It works in a similar
way to many other loyalty shopping sites, but instead of earning
points when you shop, you raise a donation for your cause instead.
It's as simple as that!
You can shop with over
2,000 well known stores and each will donate up to 15% of what you
spend. For example, John Lewis will donate 1%, Amazon 2.5%, The
Body Shop 6%, some insurance retailers will even donate up to £30
simply for taking out a policy with them!
Probably no intentions
to shop in January much but don't forget it when you do ! Thanks
to Freda for setting this up. |
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| Membership
renewal due
It's that time of year
again......
Membership fees are due
at the end of January. You can now download the renewal
form here as well as additional
member forms and additional
under 18 membership forms (pdf's). please make sure you fill
in a form for each person you are making an application for.
Any problems
or questions about membership
applications can be emailed to the
membership secretary or ask a member of the committee. |
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| Holiday
Schedule
With xmas day falling
on a Tuesday some of our club sessions will be affected.
Juniors is on this Wednesday
(19th Dec) but will then be taking a break until the new year with
the first session back being Sunday the 6th of January. I am sure
you will agree our coaches deserve a bit of a break over xmas too.....
Our Adult novice sessions
will be cancelled on Xmas day and New Years day but watch out here
for any other changes.
We traditionally have
a bit of a get together down at the club on Boxing Day for a row
(or a wander down the middle of the loch) and this will be going
ahead again this year. Come on down at about 11am and bring some
of your left overs for a pot luck lunch after some exercise! We
may even be able to convince someone to bring some soup. |
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| Rowing
Club Ceilidh - 1st December
Huge thanks to everyone
who came to the CSRC Club Ceilidh!
It was a brilliant night
down at the McKillop Institute and the White Cart Ceilidh Band were
terrific as usual. The atmosphere was really good and everyone seemed
to be having a great time. We made over £1200 on the night
for club funds so thank you all.
Huge Thanks must go to
all the volunteers who helped with the sandwiches, setting up, cleaning
up and all the donations for the raffle. We really are a club whose
members step up when asked! Looking forward to next year already...... |
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| CSRC
AGM
The club AGM was held
on Monday 19th November, 7pm at the clubhouse. The minutes will
be posted shortly
The committee was elected
for the coming year. |
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| President |
Ivar Campbell |
| Vice President
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Graeme Fletcher |
| Past President |
Caroline Parker |
| Captain |
Jo Pinder |
| Vice Captain |
Louise Hiddleston |
| Secretary |
Morna Galbraith |
| Treasurer |
Karen Sanders |
| Senior
Membership Secretary |
Leigh Sutherland |
| Junior Membership Secretary |
Lesley Afuakwah |
| Clubmaster |
Steve Conner |
| Fundraising Co-ordinator |
Freda Robertson |
| Publicity |
Kirsty Cameron |
| Ordinary Member |
Bill Hiddleston |
| Ordinary Member |
Kirsteen Lyth |
| Ordinary Member |
Campbell Horsburgh |
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thanks to our outgoing committee members, Lisa Little (secretary),
John McKinney (Membership Secretary) and Mel Brander (Fundraising
co-ordinator). Also thanks to Caroline (President) and Kirsteen
(Clubmistress) who have stepped down from their posts but remain
on the committee. |
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| Rowing
Club Ceilidh - 1st December
Its almost time for the
best night of the year.....The CSRC Club Ceilidh!
The Ceilidh is on December
the 1st at the Mckillop Institute Hall in Lochwinnoch. Tickets will
soon be on sale and numbers are limited due to fire regulations
at the hall. Prices are held again at £12 for adults and £6
for children/students which includes a buffet.
It's a really fun night
for everyone so bring some friends and join us on the 1st. To get
your tickets email the
captain or talk to Jo down at the club. |
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| Tyne
LDS Regatta 2012
Martin,
Ivar and William headed over to Newcastle at the weekend to take
part in the Tyne Long Distance Sculls. They battled through snow
and ice to get there and conditions were very cold but they came
away happy after good performances. Martin was the 2nd fastest Vet
1x in 30th position and William and Ivar were 2nd fastest Vet 2x
after handicaps were applied in 42th place. Not a bad result from
a field of 120! |
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| Coastal
Rowing Championships
We ran a tearoom on Saturday
27th October for the Gallagher Heath St Ayling Regatta 2012. It
was great to see the Coastal Rowing boats racing around the loch
and typically the loch was flat and calm for most of the day, more
our preferred conditions than theirs. There is a nice article on
the Scottish
Coastal Rowing site. We did lots of tours around the boathouse
and there were many conversations abouts boats between interested
parties. Hopefully this is an event we will see on the loch again
as it was great fun and everyone seemed to go away happy. Big thanks
to Kirsteen for organising things and all her helpers who helped
with donations and time. |
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| Fundraising
Bag Pack - 20th October
Well
done to everyone who went and helped out at the M&S bag pack.
A good time was had by all and £770 was collected for the
club. Thank you all soooo much! |
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| Learn
to Row at Castle Semple
Rowing has never been
more popular thanks to the Olympics. We are recieving many requests
to Learn to Row or get back to rowing since Team GB did us all proud
at Eton Dorney. Sadly our Post Olympic senior and junior courses
are now full but we will be running more courses and introductions
to rowing in the near future. If you are interested in getting on
the water please email us at captain@castlesemplerc.co.uk
and we can let you know what is coming up.
Please be patient when
you email us we may not be able to get back to you straight away,
but we will be in touch as soon as we can. |
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| Post
Olympic Learn to Row course - 25th-26th August
Course
now full
You
can still learn this brilliant sport by joining our Learn
to Row Saturdays or go along to the Scottish
Rowing Learn to Row taster course.
Inspired by the amazing
performances of the GB rowing team in the London Olympics? Come
along to the CSRC Post Olympics Learn to Row weekend on 25th-26th
August and give this wonderful sport a try. Our focused and structured
course will provide you with all the basic skills you need to start
rowing and is managed by our experienced UKCC Level 2 Coaches.
During the course you
will become familiar with the basic rowing stroke, rowing commands,
and (weather permitting) will learn to steer, back and manoeuvre
a boat on the loch. You will learn using the clubs training singles
which have buoyancy pontoons on them and are almost impossible to
fall out of. This will allow you to get the technique right before
you have to worry about stability. By the end of the weekend you
should also have had the opportunity to row in the training double
and in a racing quad (4 people & a cox). This course is open
to adults (18-80+) and costs £40 (£20 concessions) for
the two days (10am - 3.00pm) including all equipment and a sandwich
and soup lunch. |
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| CSRC
Newsletter Summer edition
Keep up with club news
by reading the Summer
edition of our newsletter. If you have any news articles or
notices you would like to have included in the next edition please
email them to Lisa
the club secretary. We would love to have an article on the
Olympic Rowing from someone who has gone down to Dorney Lake so
if you are heading down, please consider putting pen to paper (or
finger to keyboard) when you get back and share your experience
with the rest of the club. |
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| HIR
- 21st July
Congratulations
to Caitlin Horsburgh, Andy Holmes and Emma McDonald from everyone
at Castle Semple on their selection to represent Scotland at the
Home International Regatta being held in Cardiff on 21st July.
Caitlin,
who has been selected for the first time, will be rowing for the
Junior Women in the WJu 8+. Emma is in the WJu2- and the WJu 4x
whilst Andy is in the senior squad rowing in the 2-, 4- and 8+.
After a season of hard work, this is a great reward for all the
hours of training and dedication to their sport. Andy is also the
Senior Mens Captain and Emma is the Junior Womens Captain. Duncan
Walker will also be attending as the WJu8+ Coach.
You can follow the Scotland Rowing Team in Cardiff on Twitter @ScottishRowing.
Good luck to all the Scotland team. |
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| Strathclyde
Park Loch Closure
With Strathclyde Loch
being closed still and HIR fast approaching we are getting a few
requests from other clubs to come and train at Castle Semple.
This is generally not
a problem but we would appreciate it if clubs wanting to come and
train could drop us an email at captain@castlesemplerc.co.uk
so we can keep the Regional Park and other water users informed.
It also gives us the opportunity to suggest the best times to train..
Any requests to borrow
boats or other equipment should also be made, in advance, through
the Captain.
Here's to a great set
of results at this years HIR! |
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| Henley
Royal Regatta - Our
very own Andy Holmes was competing at Henley Royal Regatta this
weekend and after a very exciting race (heard on the excellent Henley
Regatta Radio) his Harvard crew came through right on the line to
win by just 1ft in the Ladies Challenge Plate Final.

Many congratulations
to Andy and his team mates for an excellent win in a very prestigous
event. |
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| Juniors
on Holiday!
The Wednesday evening
Junior session and Sunday 10 - 12 sessions will take a break from
(and including) Sunday 1st July and will start up again on Sunday
22nd July. Most people are on holiday the first couple of weeks
in July and so this is historically quite a quiet time.
Those of you who attend
Tuesday and Thursday sessions with Duncan should check with him
what his plans are for the summer as I believe that there are a
few dates in July that he will be away as well.
Hope you all have a great
summer and see you on the 22nd July.
Lesley |
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| CSRC's
Big Weekend!
Lilias day went very
well on the 2nd of June. We would like to thank Ivar and Graeme
for taking the organisation and running of our stall on and they
did a fab job. They wanted to pass on their sincere thanks to Paul
McDonald, Elizabeth Grant and Hamish for turning up on the day and
helping out. They raised £260 which has paid for our new red
gazebos :o)
The Queens Diamond Jubilee
Pageant also went well, if a little wet! We would like to thank
the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire for inviting us to be part of
this amazing spectacle, Royal West for supplying the boat and the
other half of the crew and Duncan Graham for skippering us down
the Thames. There were lots of people who made it possible for us
to go and we are grateful to all of them.
Royal West are holding
an open day on the 30th of June and we will be having a get together
that evening with photo's to let everyone know how it went, if you
are interested in going along please talk to Caroline or Jo. |
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| CSRC
Regatta - Results Now UP
Results
(pdf)
Results
(xls)
Thanks to all who made
the trip to Castle Semple. We had a great day and hope you all did
too! |
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| CSRC
Regatta
Almost there....... Our
regatta is on Saturday and as usual we need a few things!
Friday compound
clear up - Can folks come down from 5.30pm to help clear
up the compound ready for trailers please. We need lots of muscle
to move boats and we could also use help setting up inside the clubhouse.
Garden furniture
- We desperately need outside tables and chairs for the tearoom,
if you can lend us some it would be great. Can you please drop it
down on Friday evening (Always a good idea to put your name on it
somewhere)
Regatta Day
- Set up starts about 7am. We need help setting up tents and co-ordinating
parking etc. There is loads to do so there will be no training
on the loch on Saturday morning before the regatta! |
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| Strathclyde
Park Regatta
Congratulations to everyone
who competed at Strathclyde Park.Challenging conditions meant the
racing was a real test and our crews did really well. Results will
be up soon. |
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| Regatta
Programme
We are now selling advertising
space in our programme for the regatta. Prices below are based on
an A5 programme. Please email captain@castlesemplerc.co.uk
for more information. |
| Half Page
- black & white |
£25 |
| Half Page
- colour |
£35 |
| Full Page
- black & white |
£50 |
| Prominent position (inside
cover) - colour |
£75 |
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| Newsletter
Her is
the April edition or the CSRC
Newsletter. Thanks to our Secretary Lisa who has co-ordinated
and put together our new newsletter. We will be putting one together
on a regular basis to keep club members up to date with news from
down at the club. If you have any news or articles please email
us and we will include them. |
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| Maintenance
Day - Sunday 15th April - 10am onwards
We are having a maintenance
day to check over equipment and boats before the start of the racing
season. Don’t worry if you can’t fix boats we have plenty
to do. All hands will be gratefully put to work. You don’t
need to bring anything but yourselves!
Please come along for
a couple of hours and help get the club ready for another successful
season!
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| Queens
Diamond Jubilee - A message from our Secretary
Hello Everyone,
The club has been asked
to participate in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the Thames.
The crew will take the Whiteforeland to London for the weekend and
row the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in the event, as a composite
with Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boat Club.
From Castle Semple, we
need 6 people to take part in the event - 2 rowers, 2 understudies
and 2 support crew.
You will need to be
available from Friday 1st June to Monday/Tuesday 4th and 5th June.
If you are interested
in taking part, then please email
me by the 1st April. |
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| New
minibus
We are very pleased to
have taken ownership of a minibus. This will allow us to continue
to go to regattas and head races in far away parts and help the
environment by taking fewer vehicles. Thanks to Western Ferries
for their kind donation to help us purchase it and NATS for all
their help. Now we need a name......... |
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| Big
Thanks
Thanks to the Scottish
Rowing Centre for the Stepper machine that they gave us. It is now
installed in the clubhouse and ready for use.....If you are not
sure how to use it have a word with Richard, he has lots of gruesome
things you can do to improve your core while climbing up mountains
on it :o) |
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| Scottish
indoor Champs
Well done to everyone
who competed at the Scottish Indoor Championships. We had a really
good turn out and some good results for the club. Full results are
up on the Scottish Rowing website as a
pdf file. Congratulations to Harry Rodgers (2nd), Laura McDonald
(2nd), Caroline Parker (2nd), Lisa Little (1st) and the CSRC A team
who were 3rd in the Womens team event. Thanks also to Lesley and
Mel who were there all day organising and supporting everyone and
also competing themselves. Same again next year? |
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| Membership
renewal
You will shortly be getting
an email from our Membership Secretary but if you want to get a
head start our Membership
Renewal Form is now available for download. I would like to
highlight a couple of important points. The fee for the racing licence
should be paid separately to the membership fees and must be handed
to John (or left in the envelope on the board in the club) with
the licence application form. An up to date email address is very
important as this is now the clubs preferred method of communication,
can you all please ensure you put one on the membership form even
if you think we know it. Thank you! |
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| Coaching
links
Ivar Campbell has been
working on getting together some Coaching
links. This is the start of a page where we can link to good
sources of information that can help in the quest to get better
at rowing! If you have any good links that could go up on this page
please email them to me and I will add them to the page. Thanks
to Ivar for getting this started. |
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| Wednesday
Circuits
Circuits will be running
this week on Wednesday down at the clubhouse at 5pm for those of
you who have over indulged over xmas. It costs 50p per person, please
pay on the night. |
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| 2012
Events list & Racing Licences
The Scottish
Rowing timetable for next year is now up. First up for most
of us is the Indoor Rowing Champs on the 29th of January. You don't
need a racing licence for the indoor champs but the SUBC 4's &
small boats head on February the 11th is close behind so please
get organised and get your racing
licence application forms in to John McKinney as soon as possible
as it takes at least 2 weeks to get them at this busy time of year.
Licences this year cost £39 Adults, £28 Students, £21
Juniors and £8 for Cadets. Payment must accompany
the form to John please. |
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| Caption
Competition
The caption competition
has been a bit stalled of late so I have come up with an absolute
beauty of a picture for you all this time, well William came up
with it I just scanned it! Check out the picture and have a go,
I may even come up with a reasonable prize for the funniest caption.
You can find
it here. |
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| CSRC
40th Anniversary Ceilidh
Thanks to everyone who
contributed to a fantastic 40th anniversary Ceilidh. Supported by
the White Cart Ceilidh band the evening kicked off at 7.30pm on
Saturday night and the McKillop Hall in Lochwinnoch was soon filled
with the sound of over 100 people enjoying themselves. Thanks to
the efforts of the organisers Mel, Jo and Lisa there was a great
turn out of CSRC members, plenty of friends and family and fellow
rowers from other clubs. Our special guests for the night were five
of CSRC’s founder members Jim MacRitchie, John McKinney, Duncan
Paterson, Owen McGhee and Dave Allen pictured below. Dave Allen
even travelled up from Cheshire for the event. We were very happy
to welcome them and to demonstrate our gratitude for their efforts
four decades ago.

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the speeches celebrating our history came the annual prize giving.
The worthy winners this year were:
Most improved junior female: Emma Brander, with special
mentions for Chloe Lyth, Laura McDonald and Emma McDonald
Most improved junior male: Joint winners Gavin Horsburgh and Cameron
Grant with special mention for Alex Afuakwah
Most improved novice female: Jenni Wagner
Most improved novice male: Campell Horsburgh
Andy Dunn award for outstanding greatest contribution to the club:
William Holmes
Well done to all of them!
The food for the evening,
cooked, baked and assembled by those members talented in the culinary
art, disappeared very quickly in time honoured CSRC tradition, Sandra
did a sterling job on the tea urn and Jo, supported by John Delaney,
refused to leave her position at the bar even when tempted by the
Orcadian Strip the Willow.
The raffle was bigger
than ever before thanks to the generosity of the club members and
most tables went home with something (although the compere Keith
Robertson needed some persuasion to hand over the Christmas cake
to the lucky winners – the McDonald family). Lorne Campbell
used skill and accuracy to become the happy owner of a bottle of
whisky in the bottle slide.

The star of the show
was the anniversary cake lovingly crafted by Kirsteen Lyth using
old photo’s in the clubs history book as source material.
It must’ve been good as John McKinney was able to identify
each character in the boat! The cake was much appreciated by the
founder members and current club members alike.
Lots of great photos
of the evening, including those shown here, were taken by Charlie
(and Sarah) Sanders and can be found on Facebook. |
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| Inverness
4's and Small boats head
Well done to Caitlin
for winning the WJu18 1x and coming 2nd in the WJu18 2x at the Inverness
4's and small boats head at the weekend. Well done to Katie Rodgers
as well for going all the way to Inverness competing in the WJu14
4x+ and still making it to training on Sunday! Congratulations ladies
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| Hong
Kong Champs- 5th/6th
November
Allan Watt competed in
the Hong Kong Champs on the 5th and 6th of November. Even though
he was giving away about 20 years he still managed to come away
with a Silver and a Bronze. Nice to hear he is keeping his training
up ready to come back and compete for CSRC again!

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| AGM
- Wednesday
30th November - Revised date
The clubs AGM is being
held on Wednesday 30th of november at 7.30pm in the clubhouse. Please
come along and hear what has been happening in 2011 and what the
plans are for 2012. It will be good to see you and to hear your
thoughts! |
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| Head
of the Charles - 22/23rd
October
Andy Holmes was in the
Harvard Heavyweight 8 competing in the Championship 8's at the Head
of the Charles in Boston USA at the weekend. Andy and the rest of
the Harvard crew won the championship eights race, winning for Harvard
for the third time and first time since 1977 to start the new season
with a bang. Click
here for a link to lots of stories about the race and a pic
of Andy on the day (wearing his CSRC one piece) |
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| Caption
Competition -
Fun night at juniors
tonight (for most of us) as a result we have a new caption
competition picture up :o) Have fun folks!! |
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| Castle
Semple Rowing Triathlon- Saturday
10th September.
Unfortunately due to
a lack of entries this year's Castle Semple rowing Triathlon due
to take place on Saturday has been cancelled. The organisers would
like to take this opportunity to thank those who entered the event
and volunteered to marshal. |
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| CSRC
Regatta Sunday 28th August - Results
now up.
Despite a fairly terrible
weather forecast the regatta ran (although at a reduced length)
and we got through all of the races on time and managing to see
some great racing. The course was changed to 500 metres as the 1000
metre mark was unrowable at the start of the day and it didn't get
a lot better as the day went on.
The cold weather meant
that the soup, bacon rolls and chilli in the tea room went down
very well indeed. The atmosphere was a little less frantic than
it has been in previous years as entries were down this being a
rescheduled regatta but it was by no means less enjoyable. A really
good atmosphere was felt by everyone who attended.
We would like to thank
everyone who did attend. Some people came a long way to support
us this year and we hope they had a really good day. Thanks also
to the umpires who showed up in numbers, Graeme and Ivar who organised
the land side of things, Bill who managed the water, Rachel who
spent long hours martialling the start and Kirsteen and Richard
who were magnificent in the Tea Room. I know all of them would like
me to pass on their thanks to all of the people who showed up and
put in long shifts and helped them on the day.
I would like to also
offer my thanks to everyone who pitched in and helped to make this
a really friendly and enjoyable club event. Fingers crossed for
a bit of sun next year though! |
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| Home
International Regatta 2011 -
On Saturday 23rd July, the annual Home International Regatta took
place on the eight lane international 2000 metre rowing course near
Hamilton. Junior and senior teams of both sexes from Scotland, England,
Ireland and Wales raced in a variety of events with racing starting
at 10.30am and continuing until 4pm.

Emma and
Olivia on the podium with coach Duncan after receiving medals for
their win in the Junior Women's 2x at the HIR. They were Scotland's
only Junior Women winners. Emma had already raced for third place
in the junior women's 1x.
Article
and photo supplied by Duncan Walker |
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| Castle
Semple Pentathlon - Well
done to the Senior CSRC team 'The old gits and the young one' who
won the Castle Semple Pentathlon. The team was made up of Elizabeth
(Run), Willie Holmes (Wind Surf), Campbell (Sail), Lesley/Martin
(Row) and Graeme Bell (Kayak). Graeme was kindly donated to us from
the Kayak club and was a definite asset to the team. It was a lot
of fun and everyone who entered did really well. Congratulations
to all the team. |
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| Junior
Sessions - Most
of you should know! but Junior sessions have entered their summer
break and are not on now until Sunday 31st July. It's time for the
coaches to have a bit of a breather so they can come back in 2 weeks
and be full of energy and new evil training ideas. Have a good holiday
and see you at the end of July! |
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| British
Champs - Emma
McD (WJu16 1x & WJu 2x), Laura McD (WJu14 1x) and Alex (OJu15
2x) are competing down at the British Championships in Nottingham
this weekend. The official
website has all the draw details. Good luck to all of them!
For tweets (and hopefully
live results) over the weekend Follow
them on Twitter! |
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| GB
U23 - Congratulations
to Andy Holmes who won a bronze medal in the 8+ for GB at the 2011
World Rowing U23 Championships, Amsterdam which took place between
July 20th and 24th. Also well done to Gavin Murty of Clydesdale
who was been selected in the Lightweight double scull.
GB Rowing have a
Facebook page for those of you who like to keep up to date with
what's going on through Facebook.. |
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| HIR
- This
years HIR will be held on July 23rd at Strathclyde Park. We would
like to offer our congratulations to Emma McDonald and Emma Brander
for being selected to represent Scotland in their junior team. Emma
McD is selected in the 1x and the 2x and Emma B has been selected
to cox the OJu 8+. Claire Hiddleston has also been selected (rowing
for GUBC) in the 4x.
For tweets on the day
Follow us on Twitter! |
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| EGM
- Thanks
to everyone who came to the EGM. I think we will all agree there
was a lot of information to take in. Remember to email any concerns
or questions to Martin, Marcello or Lesley. If you don't have their
email addresses email the
captain and I will pass them on. Huge thanks to Marcello, Martin,
Lesley and Caroline for all their work in representing the club
during this planning phase. |
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| Henley
Womens Regatta - Emma
McDonald competed at the Henley Womens Regatta in the W Ju18 1x.
She did really well and made it through to the final where she was
unfortunately beaten but it was a fantastic acheivement to get so
far.
Emma Brander was coxing
for GRC's 8+. They got through to the final day but just missed
out on a place in the final finishing 3rd overall in the Inter club
8+. Well done to them all.
Full Henley Womens Regatta
results are here. |
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| Grand
Raffle - Huge
thanks to Mel Brander who organised and ran the clubs Grand Raffle.
It has been hard going since our regatta was cancelled but Mel kept
the pressure up and we have raised around £900 for the club.
Many thanks to all of those who donated prizes, we couldn't have
run this without you. We also want to thank everyone who made the
effort to sell the tickets to neighbours and friends and to the
juniors who went around selling tickets during the weekend. A full
list of the winners is now up on the regatta page. |
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| Scottish
Champs - Well
done to everyone who competed at the Scottish Champs. We had a great
weekend and some fabulous results for the club. I will be putting
the results up on Racing/Results page as soon as I have worked them
all out! If you row for another club and want your results up please
drop me a line.
Thanks. |
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| EGM
- All
members are invited to an Extraordinary General Meeting on Thursday
23rd of June to discuss the plans for the clubhouse for details
click here. Emails have been sent out to members whose addresses
we have. If you have not received an email and should have please
email the captain
to get your name on the club email list. |
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| Grand
raffle tickets - All
ticket stubs and unsold tickets must be returned to Mel by Saturday
once you have sold as many as possible. We will be selling the tickets
at the Gazebo at Strathclyde Park over the weekend, we really need
all club members to help sell them to try and make up for the disappointment
of having to cancel our regatta. Fundraisers like this are vital
to the running of our club.
We will be holding the
draw on Sunday afternoon so please have a last week push to sell
as many as you can! |
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| Scottish
Champs - It's
the Scottish Championships this weekend so there will be no Novice
session on Saturday and no Junior sessions on Sunday. All of the
boats and coaches and most of the rowers will be at Strathclyde
Park, why don't you come and join us and get your rowing fix by
cheering on your clubmates? The CSRC gazebo will be there all weekend! |
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| Castle
Semple Regatta 21st May-
Update
- Unfortunately due to predicted high winds over
the weekend we have had to take the decision to cancel our regatta.
We intend to reschedule and try again in the late summer/early autumn
and we hope you will all support us again then.
We are still running
our raffle! Please help us sell the tickets (or buy some yourselves)
.....check out the regatta page for
details. Draw being held on June 12th.
It
appears the forecast was correct. I don't fancy even driving the
launch in this!

Semple
Loch 11am Saturday 21st May
Many thanks to the people
who worked so tirelessly to organise everything. A huge amount of
work had gone into the organisation of this event and though we
know the risk is always there it is hard for all involved to have
to cancel at this late stage. |
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| Andy
Update - It's
the end of Andy's first year at Harvard and it's been a good one.
He has become an integral part of the Freshman Heavyweight crew
which won at the Eastern Sprints this weekend. Well done Andy!
They have put up a
highlights video showing the end of the Freshman Grand Final
and we get to see Andy and his crew receive their medals. |
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| Caption
Competition - It's
been quite a while since I have updated this but ..........................I
have uploaded a new picture for
the caption competition.
Since it's been so long
I have wiped it clean and we can start from scratch. Some previous
winners can be found here for inspiration.
No need to register on the page just give it your best shot! |
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| CSRC
Regatta - It's
getting close to our regatta and the list of things we need is getting
longer......So can we please put out a plea for:
An outboard engine with
about 5hp or more
Outside tables and chairs
(to be brought down on the friday)
Rolls, sandwiches, drinks,
cakes (to be brought on the day)
If you have any of the
items or are planning on bringing food donations could you please
get in touch so we know whats coming please. Thanks! |
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| Clydesdale
Regatta - It's
Clydesdale regatta this Saturday and boat loading will be at 5pm
for all those racing. Please come down and do your bit, we will
be having a bit of a boathouse tidy during the boatloading so plenty
for everyone to do.
The Novice session will
be on as usual on Saturday from 10 till 12. |
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| CSRC
Grand Raffle - This
year to celebrate our 40th anniversary and to help raise funds for
the club we are holding a grand raffle at our regatta. Mel Brander
is organising the prizes for this and is asking if all members could
have a think about donating something. We have some fantastic prizes
already, thank you if you have donated, but we are looking for a
few more to make it really special. Please let Mel know or email
captain@castlesemplerc.co.uk
if you are able to donate anything. |
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| Strathclyde
Park Regatta - It
was a great weekend at Strathclyde Park this weekend. Saturday the
weather let us down a bit but Sunday made up for it and the wind
was kind both days. Some brilliant racing over the two days and
I will put up CSRC results very soon. Well done to everyone who
went and competed and a big thank you to all of those who sat on
the sidelines and cheered them on. |
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| Club
Spring Clean - Hi
Guys, Due to such popular and busy rowers at CSRC we are not able
to get a day to fit all for a pre regatta maintenance sort out this
year, however I am sorting a spring cleaning day on Good Friday
starting round 9am. Marigolds to the ready, Coffee and Cake will
be provided for willing volunteers. All welcome.
Kirsteen Club Master |
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| Emma
update! -
Emma McDonald
has been on the GB pathway since last October. This involves monthly
submissions of ergo scores. She missed the initial time trial in
November and entered at J16 Trial Level in February in Boston. She
easily won the J16 event out of 27 scullers and secured 16th place
in the overall placings which included a further 55 in the J18 list.
On the strength of this result, Emma attended the GB Spring Trials
in Nottingham which
were held over the first weekend in April. This event is by invitation
only and 19 other
Junior Women scullers joined Emma for three days of being put through
their paces by
high performance GB coaches, supported by Club Coaches. Emma was
accompanied by
Duncan Walker who has been working closely with Emma as she ups
her training regime.
Emma said that it was “a fantastic experience although it
was probably the hardest thing
she has ever done”. The opportunity to train along side such
a high standard of athlete
proved to be inspirational for Emma as well as being an extremely
positive experience for
her. The GB Spring Trials have left her even more determined and
more competitive now
that she has seen the level that she wants to be working at.
This weekend will be followed up on April 24th at Dorney Lake, Eton,
where GB selectors
hold a small boats regatta and the scullers will be ranked over
2000m racing. After that
crews are selected for Munich and Ghent regattas. Further trials
are held in June at
Dorney again where a final selection is made of crews for the World
Champs, Coupe de la
Jeunesse and GB V France J16 match.
Emma is training six days a week with double sessions on Saturdays
and Sundays and
this reflects Emma's aspirations, competitive nature, ambition and
commitment. Her ability
for good time management is highlighted by the fact that she is
also currently studying for
her Highers and still managing to practice playing piano. We all
wish Emma the best of
luck.
It looks like we will have to get “Well Done Emma Stamp”
made for Emma too!
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| Speedcoach
- Can
whoever has the clubs speedcoaches please return them to the lockbox
in the kitchen. These speedcoaches are for the use of all club members,
if you borrow one you must always return it immediately. Please
do not leave these in your boat and do not remove it from the club
without the permission of the captain. |
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| Coxing
Seminar -
Coxing Seminar:
There will be a seminar on coxing at the Scottish Rowing Centre
on Saturday 16th April at 1.30pm. Further details are available
here. Contact john.blair@scottish-rowing.org.uk
if you will be attending. There is a £5 charge for this event. |
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| WackySox
-
Jenni had
CSRC socks designed by Wackysox – see picture below. If you
would like a pair, please let her know which size(s) and how many
per size. She needs a minimum order of 25 pairs per size in order
to get them done. The following sizes are available – 2-6,
7-11 and 11-14.

Prices are approximately: |
| 25
Pairs/One size |
£6.95
each |
| 50 Pairs/One
size |
£6.45 each |
| 100 Pairs/2 sizes or 125
Pairs/3 sizes |
£5.95 each |
| Jenni
needs to find out who is interested to see if we can get an order
in, so please put down exactly how many pairs you would like and
in what sizes. Contact Jenni on jve.wagner@gmail.com
if you have any questions and to put in your order. Thanks! |
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| WHorr
- Huge
congratulations to the CSRC/GRC crew who took part in the Womens
Tideway in London at the weekend. Wearing number 277 they had a
great race and finished the 7km course in a time of 22:56:12 finishing
249th out of 303 boats.

Congatulations
also go to Emma Brander who coxed the Glasgow RC A boat to 86th
place (20:56:59), Caitlin Horsburgh, Clydesdale ARC B 188th place
(22:04:26) and Claire Hiddleston who stroked the Glasgow University
B boat to 120th place (21:20:00)
It's great
that so many of our members took part in this amazing event and
had such a fantastic time. Thanks also to Kirsteen for going down
with them and taking some wonderful photo's (including the one above).
Kirsteens photo's can be found on her Facebook page! |
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| Capsize
Drill - It's
that time again! This years capsize drill is on March 27th (sorry
for the late notice) at Garnock pool at 5pm. It's really important
that the juniors go and take part (unless they like wearing a life
jacket while rowing) and all novices/New starts should do it as
well if they have not done it before. You will need to take light
clothes to swim in and there is a small charge to be collected at
the pool. |
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| News
- If
anyone has any club related news or information to go up on the
website please email news@castlesemplerc.co.uk |
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| Desperately
seeking - Richard
Lyth is looking for a new doubles partner who is up to the challenge
of the 'Boston' Liam is unable to commit the time to train for the
marathon this year so Richard is looking for a man who can! If you
fancy giving it a go please talk to Richard down at the club or
email me and I
will put you in touch. |
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| Strathclyde
Regatta - The
Strathclyde regatta info is now available. Entries need to be with
Karen by March 30th so don't delay. Make sure you organise your
cox early if you need one.
Reminder for everyone
wanting to race at Strathclyde Park - Club kit MUST be worn by all
competitors. If you don't have any now is the time to order it.
Godfrey
are our club kit supplier and can deliver small orders pretty
quickly. Only one pieces and splashtops have any significant savings
in bulk orders so if you need kit other than these probably best
to order it yourselves. If you want a one piece/splashtop drop
me an email and if there are a few of you I will do a club order. |
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| CSRC
Regatta - We
have started having meetings to organise our regatta this year.
It was great to see so many people at the first regatta committee
meeting and the signs are good that this years regatta will again
be a fantastic representation of our club.
This year the regatta
is on May 21st so please try and keep the day free
so you can come and be part of CSRC's big day. This year is a special
year for the club as it was discovered that the first CSRC regatta
was held in 1971, so this is our 40th anniversary! If you have any
ideas how we can make it special or would like to be part of organising
the event, please contact the regatta
committee to find out how. |
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| Results
- Emma
McDonald has won the WJu16 1x in Boston at the GB Junior trials,
she is placed 16th overall which is a terrific achievement. Congratulations
to Emma from everyone and good luck in the 2x.
Martin and Pete made
the trek up to Inverness this weekend and had a successful day.
They placed 5th in Division 1 and then took 10 seconds off their
own time to come 3rd in Division 2 where they won the MOp 2x. They
managed to complete both of their rows only being beaten by eights!
There really is still life in the old dogs.....(Birthday coming
up Pete?) |
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| Publicity
Officer - The
club has been incredibly successful in many areas in the last few
years and we would love to let the wider world know about some of
our successes. With this in mind we are looking for someone to look
after the publicity of the club. Anyone who is interested or has
any experience in this area please contact captain@castlesemplerc.co.uk
for more information. |
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| SUBC
Head - Unfortunately
due to the height of the river and the amount of debris in it after
the weeks rain the SUBC head race is cancelled. They are looking
to reschedule in March.
Note: The SUBC Head has
been rescheduled for March 12th. Please let Karen know if you would
like to enter. |
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| Great
Western Eights Head - We
had two crews competing at the GUBC head at the weekend. The Mens
Novice 8+ were first off in the morning in perfect conditions. It
was cold but sunny with very little wind. They coped with the unfamiliar
(bendy) course really well and enjoyed being back on water. The
ladies raced in the afternoon (thanks to the very determined Jenni)
The crew was a mix of experience with juniors and novices competing
in the first Womens Novice 8+ for a number of years. They did really
well and everyone came back with a smile on their face, I think
they may even do it again!
Update - The
men finished the course in 22:50 and the ladies did it in 26:03.
Well done everyone! |
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Scottish
Indoor Champs -
Well done to everyone who competed at the Scottish Indoor Championships
on the 23rd of January. There were some great results for the club
(and for old members). Silver medals went to Andrew Taylor, Laura
McDonald and Alex Afuakwah. Lorne Campbell (rowing for Clydesdale)
got a Bronze in the U18 Hwt, Finn Campbell (Clydesdale) a bronze
in the U16 and Kirsty Sanders won a bronze medal in the womens lwt
uni race but huge Congratulations to Emma McDonald for her Gold
Medal in the U16 race. By all accounts it was a very convincing
win and just deserts for all of the effort she has been putting
in over the last few years. |
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| Club
Sessions - The
loch is getting back to normal and some lucky members have made
it out onto the water this week, however low overnight temperatures
mean that we have to look at the conditions on a day to day basis
just now. Fingers crossed for some cloudy nights! Where possible
sessions will be out on the water this weekend but be prepared to
ergo just in case. |
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|
At the recent Scottish
Rowing Conference the Scottish Rowing Awards were announced and
Andy recieved the award for Oarsman of the year! I know everyone
will join me in congratulating him on this great achievement. Well
done Andy! |
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| Membership
subs - A
new year is upon us once more and so it’s time to remind you
that subscriptions are now due. You should
have recieved an email from our membership secretary John McKinney
over the last few days, if you have not please email
me so we can make sure you are on our members email list. The
membership renewal form is also available
here. Please get your forms in as soon as possible and don't
forget to fill in your racing licence form too! Thanks. |
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| Racing
Licences - It's
time to get your racing licences for the new year. If you are going
to enter for any of the head races in the next couple of months
you need to fill in a racing
licence application form and get it back to John McKinney as
soon as possible. The deadline for licences to be done for the Western
Eights Head is the 3rd of January (Monday)!! Please note that racing
licence costs in 2011 are Seniors £38, Students £27,
Juniors £20 and Cadet £8. |
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| Club
Ceilidh -
The clubs annual ceilidh was on Saturday November 27th at the McKillop
Institute in Lochwinnoch.
Well
done to everyone who made it to the ceilidh despite some pretty
awful conditions. We had a great time.The band were really good
and the juniors, as always, kept the dance floor full despite the
fairly small turnout. Janice did us proud again with the buffet
and my bar was impressive in it's choice (thanks Mel!). The juniors
had their own 'bar' this year, many thanks to Sam and Craig (and
Jeff) for staffing it.
Bill
Hiddleston won the whisky in the pound shove with the last shot
just beating Caroline out of the honours, Louise Hiddleston won
the junior version of the event. The Hiddlestons dominance continued
in the raffle.The raffle was a highlight with many prizes on offer,
the cake made by Kirsteen attracted a lot of interest, Keith spent
a long time after winning the cake convincing us all it could only
travel if uncut! Thanks to everyone who donated prizes
One of
the main parts of the evening is the awarding of the annual prizes
for performance and contribution to the club. The well deserving
winners were: |
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| Most improved
junior female |
Emma
McDonald |
| Most improved
junior male |
Alex Afuakwah |
| Most improved
novice female |
Kirsteen Lyth |
| Most improved
novice male |
Richard Lyth &
Liam Smith |
| Andy Dunn
Trophy |
Leslie Afuakwah |
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The
Andy Dunn Trophy is awarded to a member who has made an outstanding
contribution to the club. Leslie has stepped up over the previous
12 months and filled many essential but vacant posts within the
club. Among her many hats she has been the Treasurer, Child Protection
Officer, Junior Coach, Boat Trailer Driver, Secretary, Fundraiser
and many more. Without people like Lesley the club simply couldn't
keep going. She is a worthy winner this year, Congratulations! |
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| Club
AGM -
The clubs AGM was on the 17th November.
Many
thanks to the members who attended. Minutes will be posted on the
forum as soon as possible. The committee has seen a few changes
and the posts are now as follows: |
| President |
Caroline
Parker |
| Secretary |
Jenni Wagner |
| Treasurer |
Karen Sanders |
| Seniors Secretary |
John McKinney |
| Junior Secretary |
Lesley Afuakwah |
| Clubmaster |
Kirsteen Lyth |
| Captain |
Jo Pinder |
| Junior Member |
Chloe Lyth |
| Ordinary Member |
Julie Donn |
| Ordinary Member |
Ivar Campbell |
| Ordinary Member |
Mel Brander |
| Ordinary Member |
Bill Hiddleston |
| Ordinary Member |
Martin Holmes |
Many
thanks to those members who have taken on the responsibility of
committee membership, the club can only continue to be successful
if people step up and take on the important jobs on the committee. |
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| Inverness
Head - Congratulations
to Emma McDonald who travelled up to Inverness at the weekend to
compete in the Morrison Construction Fours and Small boats head
and won the WJu18 4x+, WJu18 2x and the WJu18 1x. Emma took part
in the coxed quad in a composite with Glasgow RC and was partnered
in the 2x by Olivia Davison from Glasgow RC.
A very successful weekend
indeed! Well done Emma :o) |
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| Sewage
Works - The
problems at the Sewage Works in Lochwinnoch have now been repaired
and we are allowed access to the loch again. Please make sure you
wash all boats and kit well before putting it away and don't forget
to wash your hands and clothes after each outing. |
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| Boston
Marathon - Sunday 19th Sept.
-
Well the Boston Marathon went really well this year. The weather
could not have been more different to last year with grey skies
and gusty conditions making our teams deal with almost 51 miles
of crosswinds and headwinds! Both the doubles were very pleased
to see the finish line.
Caroline
and Lesley had set themselves a challenging target of 4hrs 30minutes
(one they just missed last year in better conditions) and they set
off in very determined mood. For details of how they did during
the day check out the twitter
feed. They crossed the finish line in a time of 4hrs 29 minutes
and 6 seconds to not only achieve their goal but also win their
event, beating the second placed WNov 2x by 20 minutes!
Richard
and Liam set off in a burst of adrenaline that saw them get to Bardney
Lock in very quick time but that pace probably took a little too
much out of them. They kept going and did very well to finish in
5hrs 16 minutes and 11 seconds just 16 minutes outside their optimistic
target. A great achievement for a crew with only one years experience.
Both Richard
and Liam are
attempting to raise a little money for charity and have set up just
giving pages, please donate if you can. Full results for this years
marathon can be
found here.
There
are already rumours of a couple of crews that are looking to compete
in the Boston Marathon next year. If you have a screw loose and
think it's something you might be interested in, have a chat to
the crews that took part in this years race and see if you might
want to give it a go. It was lots of fun for both the competitors
and support crews and well worth experiencing at least once! |
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| 100
Club
- The 100 Club exists to help Castle Semple Rowing Club raise much
needed funds, at the same time it offers an opportunity for its
participants to win as much as £100 for a modest monthly payment.
For every £1 stake,
members of the 100 Club are given entry to the monthly draw. There
are prizes of £100 to be won in February, May, August and
November and £25 prizes in each of the remaining months.
You can have as many entries
each month as you like and feel satisfied if you don't win that
it's going to a good cause!
There are a pile of entry
forms down at the clubhouse on the notice board or download
a copy right now! Hand any completed forms in to Lesley or leave
them in the plastic envelope on the notice board for her to collect.
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Photo's
- Loads of people have been taking photo's of the breathtaking views
we have at the moment so I have set up a photobucket account for
the club. The idea is that any club member can upload their photo's
to the account to make it quicker and easier to share them. If you
want to upload any photo's go to
http://photobucket.com/. The user name is csrcpics and the password
is the same as the members section of the website. If you don't
know the password just drop
me a line and I will send it to you. I look forward to seeing
all of your amazing pictures :o) |
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| Committee
Minutes -
The minutes have been updated in the Forum.
You must be registered to see them, doesn't take long to register
just click the register button and drop me an
email with your username and email address so I can authorise
you. |
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| Results
-
I have updated the results for this year.
Can you all please have a look. This has been done using results
I have been emailed and I know there are results and crew member
names missing. We would like to have a complete record of our successes
from regattas and head races for the season. Email
me with any ammendments or additions.
If you have a crew at a head race can you get in touch with me and
let me know how you get on and the names of your crew. Thanks! |
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New
Links
- I've updated the links page to add a load
of websites that are quite handy if you want to do a bit of shopping,
clothing, boats and accessories are all covered. If anyone has any
more that I haven't covered, drop
me a line and let me know. |
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| Dates
for the Diary |
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| Boston
Marathon -
19th September |
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| 2011
Rowing Calender -
The events
calender for 2011 is now up on the SARA website. There is an
edited version in the training and crew notices section of the Forum. |
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Results
-
For more detailed results go to the Racing/Results
page |
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Club
Scratch Regatta -
What
a great day! We had sunshine, good food and good racing. A full
list of winners is now up on the Racing/Results
page. Thanks to all those who organised the event and helped
out on the day. Already looking forward to next years! |
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| Club
News |
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| 100
Club - The 100 Club winners for the whole year are in
the AGM minutes on the Forum. |
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| The
committee minutes are now available
on the Forum. Next commitee meeting Monday 3rd
May 7.30pm. |
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| Get
your kit on! - Dot kindly organised
a club kit page on the Godfrey
Website for you now to place your orders for kit directly. Godfrey
will add up all the discounts etc. from orders placed and calculate
the discount due. |
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