Boston Marathon - Sunday 19th Sept. - It's that time of year again where a number of our members go and do something ridiculous, row 50km!! Pete and Martin are giving it a miss this year and having a well earned break from 'the Boston' so it's down to Caroline and Lesley and Richard and Liam to represent Castle Semple this time. This is a huge challenge and both our doubles have put in a lot of effort to make sure they get to the finish, look out for me and Sam tweeting on the big day!

While doing this barmy challenge Richard is trying to raise a bit of money for the Erskine Hospital so if you can please give generously via his just giving page. there are rumours Liam may also be looking to raise a bit of money.......I will let you know if it's true when he lets me know!

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.

Triathlon - The triathlon was a great success. The numbers were quite low, which was a bit of a blessing in our first year hosting, but the competition was fierce. We had three competitors break the 1 hour mark which was fantastic. Full results (Excel Spreadsheet) are now available Well done to Jonny Logan who won in a time of 58.18.

The Castle Semple Rowing Triathlon sponsored by Darroch Photography will be on Saturday August 28th starting at 8.30am. The race will consist of 2km on the rowing machine, 20kms cycle, 5km run. This lung-busting endurance event will feature many of Scotland's top rowers, including current and former Scotland team members and Commonwealth Champions.

Darroch Photography are providing prizes for the event - fastest woman and fastest man, and 2nd and 3rd prizes for each gender. There will also be a free raffle for the volunteer marshalls, timekeepers and catering crew. Finally there will be a prize for the photographer who best captures the spirit of the day.

2010 Commonwealth Rowing Champs - Well done to Andy for winning 2 Golds, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in Welland, Canada. Andy won Gold in the M2- and M2x (Saturday), Silver in the M2x (Sunday) and Bronze in the M4- and M1x. Quite a haul, he may need to pay excess baggage on the way back!

After searching the internet diligently I have managed to track down some photo's from the Championships on Facebook. Enjoy!

Andy is now competing for Scotland at the 128th Royal Henley Regatta where he has qualified for the Semi Final of the Championship Mens single.

Andy Update - It's that time again!

Andy won Bronze in the coxed Four at the World U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus

Andrew Holmes, Thomas Clark, Ertan Hazine, Patrick Lapage and Max Gander came home in 6:16.19 behind Italy and Germany. Info courtesy of British Rowing website.

HIR - Well done to our CSRC rowers who have made it into the Scottish HIR team which is being held in Cork on 24th July. Claire Hiddleston has been selected in the Junior Womens 8+, William Holmes is in the Lwt Mens 2x and the 4x and Alan Holmes is selected in the Mens 8+. Alan is also the Scottish Rowing Mens team captain. Well done to all of them and Good Luck!

Nat Champs - It was a great Scottish Championships for the club. Emma McDonald was our stand out competitor getting 2 medals over the weekend. Emma won a bronze medal in the WJu15 1x and a Silver medal in the WJu16 2x with Olivia Davison from Glasgow Rowing Club. Other notable successes from the weekend were Alex Afuakwah coming 4th in the OJu14 1x, Alan Holmes 4th in the O2- and William Holmes 5th in the OL2x. Claire Hiddleston and Caitlin Horsburgh also did very well, they both just missed out on their finals, Caitlin in appauling conditions just before racing was suspended and Claire after a swan tried to distract her off the start. The racing was very exciting at times with the CSRC support group keeping all the competitors going right to the line. Remember if you want live updates from regattas follow CSRC on Twitter for up to date action whenever we are there!!

Scottish Champs - Huge congratulations to everyone who went to the Scottish Championships this weekend. The club had a very successful time and we came back with 10 Golds, 3 Silvers and 2 third place finishes. For a small club we have a pretty good conversion rate, we entered 30 events and won 10 of them!!

Club results are up now, let me know if I missed anything.

Congratulations - Well done to Alan and William Holmes for winning down at the Met regatta on the 6th June rowing for Glasgow Rowing Club. Alan won the Poke Cup in the Senior Mens pair with Matthew Loader and William won the Intermediate 1 Mens double with Graeme Dreghorn. Well done guys, hope to see you with more medals after this weekends Scottish Champs!

Club Members blades - It has been noticed that some of the blades on the members rack have been moved around and one set has been damaged. We are not sure how this happened but can we please stress that private blades should not be moved or used without permission and care should be taken when handling any equipment in the club.

Regatta Results - I have put up results from Clydesdale and CSRC regattas. If there are any results I have missed please email me and let me know. Thanks to Emma Brander for letting me know the names of the crew in the MNov 4x+ that won at Clydesdale.

Nat Champs - Congratulations to Emma McDonald who travelled down to the Nat Schools in Nottingham and made it through to the semi finals of the WJu15 1x. She ended up just missing out on the final but achieved a very respectable seventh place. Well done Emma!

Clubhouse Ladders -There is still no sign of the big ladders from the clubhouse. If someone has borrowed them please bring them back, we would rather spend money on new kit rather than replace ladders!

Regatta Results - Great day at Castle Semple! We were blessed with the weather (although it was slightly rocky in the middle of the day) and we had some cracking racing. We got through all of our races and completed the regatta on time......not bad! Thanks to everyone who made it happen. So here are the results. Just a word document at the moment but I will sort them out properly in the next few days.

Andy Update - It's been a while since our last Andy Holmes update! He has been training hard with the GB team and is impoving all the time.

He competed this weekend at the Internationale Wedau Regatta in Duisberg in the M4- and M2-. The regatta was an under 23 international event featuring some of the best young crews around and Andy and his crews won both their events! The M4- was a pretty close final but Andy and his new pairs partner Will Satch won the M2- by an impressive 11 seconds.

Well done Andy, keep up the good work!

Strathclyde Park Regatta - What a great weekend! Well I twittered from the tower all weekend (I hope you enjoyed it) and John finally made it to join me and what a fantastic weekend of rowing. I have now entered the club results on to the results page and it is fantastic to see how successful the club was.

Over the course of the weekend Castle Semple rowers got 9 Golds and 1 Silver and that is not counting the folks racing for other clubs (boo, hiss!). There were some great results for us and special mentions to the Mens Vet crew who won the MVet 4+ CD, Emma McDonald who won the WJu15 1x and the WJu16 1x and lost her Novice status, Caitlin Horsburgh who with an Inverness composite blew the opposition away in both the WJu15 2x and the WJu16 4x and Laura McDonald and Katie Rodgers who won the WJu12 2x over 1000 metres which I can tell you is a very long way!

I think you will all agree this was a really exceptional regatta for the club and we hope just the start of a great regatta season. Now I am really looking forward to May 22nd.......

Junior Committee Members - Louise is now the Junior Committee member so if any juniors have any issues they would like brought up at committee please talk to her before the meetings. Meetings are held on the first monday of every month.

Racing Licences -Anyone who still hasn't got their racing licence needs to really get organised now. If you want to take part in any of the upcoming regattas you need to leave at least 3 weeks to get your licence and you must have a licence at the time of entry. See John McKinney to get your licence.

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)

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!

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.

Boston Marathon - 19th September

2010 Rowing Calender - The events calender for 2010 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!

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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