Junior Committee Members - Juniors! Check out the Forum please. We need 2 junior reps for the committee, talk to Karen if you are interested as soon as possible. If more than two of you want the job we will put it to a vote. You don't have to come to every meeting but it is a chance to get the views of the younger members of the club heard. Get involved in the running of your club!

Racing Licences - It's that time of year again! Letters will be sent out soon about membership renewal but just in case anyone wants to race in the next month or so you need to get organised with your racing licenses. There are paper copies of the racing licence application form down at the club, if you can't make it down or prefer to print your own just click here...

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)

Boxing Day get together - It was nice to see everyone down at the club this morning. It wasn't really rowing weather but a good snowball fight and a very impressive snowman build took place instead. Many thanks to those who brought food down, especially to Richard whose Lentil soup was just what the we all needed on a chilly day. See you all back at training in the new year. Happy New Year Everyone!!

Caption Competition - Winner of the last caption comp is Rachel Robertson, Well done Rachel, proof that flooding the picture with captions will eventually pay off! . The next picture is up, Lets see what you've got!

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.

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!

Christmas Row - Traditionally we try and meet up over christmas to get out on the water and have a bit of fun (and work off some of the food). There is a discussion on the forum asking when club members would like this to happen. Please get involved and tell us what you think.

Level 2 Coaching course - Scottish Rowing will be running a Level 2 coaching course at the National Rowing Academy on the 13th/14th & 20th/21st of March 2010 for all interested parties. Check out the Scottish Rowing News page for more details. This is a course well worth doing, if you are interested why not have a chat with Caroline to see what's involved. The club is keen to increase the number of qualified coaches and would be willing to consider helping people to achieve this.

Club Ceilidh - A fantastic night at the club ceilidh, great atmosphere and lively action on the dance floor from everyone, didn't know some of you older ones had it in you!

In addition to the dancing the annual CSRC awards were announced. This years Most Improved Male Junior was Finn Campbell for a year which saw his efforts in training rewarded with a win in the indoor rowing championships and good performances in both singles and doubles. The Most Improved Female Junior was awarded to two of this years star performers, Caitlin Horsburgh & Clare Hiddleston. Caitlin has grown enormously in confidence this year and secured her first single championship as well as the Bronze medal at the British in the CSRC/Inverness coxed quad. Clare also had a great year and her hard work really paid off as she obtained a HIR place, one of the few girls from the club to ever do so. The club is run entirely by volunteers and each year we recognise the efforts of those who put in more than their share with the Andy Dunn Memorial Trophy. The 2009 award was presented to Campbell Horsburgh for his outstanding and cheerful contributions to club events, clubhouse and boat repairs and for covering everything that doesn't move in fibreglass. Two trophies for Most Improved Novice (Male and Female) were presented to the clubs Novice Boston Marathon campaigners (John Delaney & Willie Weir, Lesley Afuakwah & Caroline Parker), John Delaney announcing that the teams efforts raised £7273.38 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Thanks were offered to Duncan Walker and Martin Holmes who have both stepped down from the Committee after many years of service and a small token from fellow committee members was presented to them. Finally in recognition of his outstanding achievements this year, in particular in bringing the first Junior Worlds Gold medal back to Scotland, Andy Holmes was awarded a Lifetime Membership of the club.

The evenings success was in no small measure due to the efforts of Keith Robertson, Rachel Robertson and Janice Hiddleston and we would like to thank them all very much. This is Keiths last year as Ceildh organiser, something he's managed despite not having time to get on the water himself these days and his efforts have been greatly appreciated.

AGM - The clubs AGM was held on Weds 18th November. The club relies on volunteers to run its day to day activities effectively and new blood (and energy!) on the committee is welcomed, thanks to those who have stuck their hands up. Many thanks also to Duncan, who is stepping down from his role as secretary to concentrate on his role as Junior performance group coach. AGM minutes are up on the Forum.

Club Circuits Session - The club has started to do circuits sessions up at Lochwinnoch Primary school on Tuesday nights to brighten up the cold winter evenings. There are two sessions. One running from 6pm till 7pm for the more energetic of you and a slightly more sedate version for the more mature members from 7pm till 8pm. Car parking is available around the back of the school and changing facilities are there if required. A small donation towards the cost of the hall is appreciated.

Reggata and Head Results - It has been mentioned that I have been a bit slow in updating the results page this year, my apologies to all the crews who should have seen their names up there.Can I remind folks that I need the information sent to me or I cannot do it!

Results will only be put up if I receive all the information I need for all of the entrants, if you look at the results page you will see I put up the competitors name, the event and the place for everyone in the top 3 of their category. I will also put up details for anyone who does particularly well (top 10) in a larger category. This is a page for results for club members, I therefore put results up for anyone who is a club member regardless of which club they are rowing for.

Head entries - Karen has put a call out for entries for the Clyde ARC head race on 24th October. Keep checking the Forum to make sure you don't miss out on entry dates for this and future head races and regattas. There has been a section added to make it easier, go take a look....

Clydesdale Scullers Head -The club had a good presence at the first big head of the season with 11 singles and 4 doubles entered. We had winners in the singles from Martin in the MVetC, who was 7th overall, and Caitlin in the WJu16. The singles was livened up by a good race between Martin and Alan who set off next to each other. Martin held Alan off until the last bend when Alan's knowledge of the river (and youth) showed and he overtook just pipping his older brother at the line.

In the doubles Lesley and Caroline were delighted to win the WNov, after the Boston it was more like a warm up! Caitlin and Emma also won the Ju16 completing a very successful day for the club. Special mention to Alan, racing for GRC, who won the doubles overall. Very big Well Done's to all who took part!!

Regatta photo's - There are lots of photo's from this years regatta so I have split them up into 4 seperate albums to make it a bit easier. They are split up according to the time they were taken, so here goes. Photo's taken between 7am and 10am, 10am and 1pm, 1pm and 4pm and from 4pm till the end of the day. I have also put up the photo's from the Strathclyde Park regatta so take a look at those too. To see a picture nice and big, double click on it, you can then just click on the right of that picture to scroll through them in a decent size.

If anyone wants a copy of a photo please email Karen and ask very nicely, she has all of the full size images.

CSRC Regatta Results - Wow, what a day!! The sun was out, the water was a little challenging in places but we ran over 100 races in just under 10 hours and I am reliably informed the last race set off only 1 minute late. Thanks to everyone for doing a magnificent job helping out to make it another huge success. More thanks will be forthcoming but I wanted to get the results up as soon as possible, so here they are.

National Schools Regatta - Andy had another successful weekend. He won Gold in the OJu17 1x on Saturday and then Silver as part of a scratch crew in the championship pairs on Sunday. The National Schools Regatta is particularly competitive as it is well attended by the most promising juniors in the country.

Below is a picture of Andy on the podium after receiving his gold medal at Munich in the coxless four.

Clydesdale Regatta - Well done to everyone who competed at the Clydesdale Regatta on Saturday. Results are now up on the racing/results page. Special mention goes to Gavin who won in his very first regatta Congratulations Gavin!

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.

Request - Does anyone have a copy of the plans for the clubhouse or know where they might be? If you do can you have a word with Martin or email the webmaster please.

update: Martin thinks he has now found a copy but please check out the forum and give us your suggestions of things you would like to see if this goes ahead.

2009 Rowing Calender - The events calender for 2009 is now up on the SARA website. There is an edited version in the training and crew notices section of the Forum.

Results - For more detailed results go to the Racing/Results page

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!

Boston Marathon - Although they managed to race for another club ;-) Pete Murray and Martin Holmes achieved their goal of beating the course record for their category in this years Boston Marathon. They managed to finish the course in a very impressive time of 3:36:12 coming in 8th overall. Congratulations also go to Andrew Holmes who completed the course in 3:57:00 coming in second only 90 seconds behind the winner of the J18 1X. Well done lads!!

Thanks - Karen Sanders has produced a splendid book of 2007 photographs and donated a copy to the club. Thanks Karen its really great!!

100 Club - The 100 Club winners for the whole year are in the AGM minutes on the Forum.

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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