Category: Rowing

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Santa Row Sunday 22nd December 10am – 12am

Sadly – due to river conditions, we’ve had to cancel this year’s Santa Row.

Santa row
Santa row
For the last row of the pre-Xmas season, we have  a morning of delight and delectation planned for you!
The wine will be mulled, the pies will be mince,  the rowing will be novel (backwards, blindfold, carol singing….and much  more).
But that’s not  all……………………………. there will be competitions, great company  and a good excuse not to go Xmas shopping!
All you have to do to join in is wear your santa  hat (or reindeer antlers, or flashing lights, blingy christmassy tinselly  creations) .
We would love to see you there to wish you good  cheer and to celebrate another year of rowing with GGBC.
To make catering easier, please let Sue know if you can come – but if you’re not sure and just want to turn up on the day, that’s fine too.

Date: Sunday 22nd  December
Time: 10am til  midday
Dress code: Santa  Hat

Rowing in winter can be fabulous:

Winter sculling2 Winter sculling
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Looking back – rowing and canoeing summer event

One of our fun events this year was a joint boating outing between Goring Gap Boat Club and kayakers from the Dolphin Club. We swapped boats and all had a go at something different.  Some of us went swimming too!

Kayakers waiting to have a go at rowing in an eight
Kayakers waiting to have a go at rowing in an eight
Explaining where the blades go
Explaining where the blades go
Getting into the boats for the first time
Getting into the boats for the first time
The boats set off
The boats set off
Always helps to have some food on board first
Always helps to have some food on board first
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Rowing through Mapledurham lock

Going through Mapledurham lock

scull in mapledurham lock

Images from our November row down to Reading – didn’t quite make it as far as Caversham Bridge – and it was a bit cold waiting to go though the locks – but it’s nice to be reminded how nice it is to row on a stretch of river with more moorhens than supermarket trolleys.

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Special club session on Sunday 24th November

It’s now been about 6 months since you took up the GGBC £10 Boathouse challenge and it’s  time to collect in all the profits made to date.

We are holding a special club session on Sunday 24th November and as well as a longer than usual row through the lock at Mapledurham we would like you to bring along all the money you have made from the various fundraising activities that have taken place over the last few months.

It will be an opportunity to have an update on the progress with the planning application for the boathouse and celebrate your fundraising activities. If you haven’t managed to put your £10 note to good use yet, come along and get some ideas from others who have used it to generate more funds. If you would like to keep your £10 and continue fundraising, that’s fine – just let me have any profits to date.

If you can’t make it on this date, please get in touch so that I can arrange to collect your fundraising efforts (boathouse challenge and loose change jars).

Many thanks for all your efforts and I look forward to seeing you on 24th November.

Ros Crowder
ros.crowder@btinternet.com

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Special Club Session this Saturday

If you are free on Saturday morning, please come along to our special Club session starting at 9am. For a change, we plan to row our boats under Whitchurch bridge, through the lock, and up to the railway bridge at Lower Basildon (and back!!). The distance is not great (each way is roughly equivalent to rowing our normal route from boathouse to Whitchurch to Mapledurham to boathouse) but it will be an opportunity to enjoy a different stretch of the river. All the boats will be back before 11am in time for coffee and refreshments. We would like to scull and row, and – as always – all standards of ability and fitness will be catered for. Currently it is forecast to be dry on Saturday morning.