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Planning application approved with conditions

EXCITING NEWS

GGBC’s planning application for a new boathouse has been granted!! Our thanks go out to Boathouse Sub-Committee for all their efforts over the last 8 months, to all Club members past and present who raised the money to fund our complex application, and to the WBC Planning Committee for listening to our case.

Now we have a site and a design for a permanent home, all we need to do is finance and build it. If you can help, or wish to get involved, please step forward and speak with a Club Committee member. There will be plenty to do, and a need for all kinds of skills.

In the meantime, we continue to row three times a week so please come along.

Many thanks

Hugh

 

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Clearing the barn

photo 5-001 photo 3 photo 4Last Saturday we cleared the barn holding all our regatta equipment to make space for the workmen to repair a roof beam. We moved the equipment to a safer place (in case the roof collapsed). For those of you who have not been there,  the buildings are historic and beautiful…

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Learn to row course

Our latest learn to row course has been progressing well. We will be running more courses later this year, so if you have ever thought ‘I’d like to try that…..’

Our learn to row course heading out in an eight
Our learn to row course heading out in an eight

Timings looking OK – just need a little less focus on your own blades!

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2014 Regatta is now the 2015 Regatta!

After careful consideration, the Goring Gap Boat Club has decided not to stage the Goring and Streatley Regatta this summer. The event will return in July 2015.

The Regatta site is still waterlogged from the January/February floods and may not dry out sufficiently by July, and in the event of any more significant rainfall in the next 3 months a later cancellation would be inevitable. It makes sense to cancel now, minimizing disruption and giving the water meadow a chance to recover and be in good shape for the 2015 Regatta.

By the time the Regatta returns in 2015 the GGBC’s permanent base in Lower Basildon, for which we have been pursuing planning permission over the last eight months, should be close to becoming a reality. This has been a long held ambition for the Club, and will provide a new focus for our rowing activities nearer to Streatley and Goring.

The Goring and Streatley Regatta in 2015 and will be a major village event and we will be seeking to attract interest from other organisations in the villages to assist by co-hosting the event. In the meantime, GGBC will continue to provide local people with access to the river in a variety of unpowered boats. The Club runs regular Learn-2-Row courses, and holds three open rowing sessions every week. New members are always welcomed regardless of age or experience.

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Sunday 27th Round the Island

Just a reminder that this Sunday’s session will include an opportunity to race around the island for those of you with competitive spirits, and a chance to help with some boat maintenance in order to keep our fleet of boats in good working order. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see lots of you joining us at 10am on Sunday.