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Ryde (IW) Amateur Rowing Regatta. To be held off Appley Beach, Ryde on - Saturday, 2nd June 2018 Promoted by RYDE ROWING CLUB. (Founded 1877) Sponsored by: PROGRAMME OF EVENTS. The Trophies and prizes will be presented outside the Clubhouse following the last race. A licenced bar with refreshments will be open in the Clubhouse for competitors. PRICE £1 Supported by Ryde Town Council and the Isle of Wight County Council. WATER SAFETY & COMMUNICATIONS . Please see the centre pages for the Regatta Water Safety and Communications Plan - and for the Emergency Plan. Ryde Regatta’s main sponsor – TLM Laser Ltd is a solutions Company, distributing for world class manufacturers FOBA, Coherent, Alphalaser, Innolas, LPKF, Swisstec, Univet, Richter, IPG and BOFA. All recognised globally as market leaders in their field with worldwide support networks. Therefore we are can offer a truly diverse product portfolio consisting of Laser systems for Welding, Cutting, Marking, Micro-machining and deposition, systems for Fume extraction, systems for Dot Peen and scratch marking. Add this to our regional service support network, our in-house automation, software and integration capabilities and we believe TLM offers an unbeatable combination. Contact [email protected] TLM Laser Director Andy Tom’s son Ben rows for the Ryde Club and Andy, a strong supporter of the Club, has firsthand experience of the Regatta having provided and skippered the Umpires boat for the 2016 and 2017 Regatta’s – a duty he will be performing again for the 2018 event. Regatta Catering. A range of hot and cold food and drinks will be available throughout the day in the main boathouse of the Ryde R. C. Clubhouse – and a licensed bar is available upstairs. The “famous” RRC cooked breakfast will be served on Sunday morning – contact Josie on 01983 566481 – or at the Clubhouse on Regatta day. A BBQ Breakfast will be available on Regatta day. LADIES JUNIOR SCULLS MENS SENIOR SCULLS sponsored by: sponsored by: MENS SENIOR FOURS sponsored by: Ryde Rowing Club. The Clubhouse, Appley Park, Ryde Isle of Wight. PO33 1ND. Founded 1877. Telephone. 01983 562127. Web Site: http://www.ryderowingclub.co.uk/ Affiliated to the British Rowing and the Hants & Dorset ARA. BR Explore Rowing “Pioneer” status with the IW Rowing Forum Ryde Rowing Club is one of the Islands oldest Sports Clubs having been in continuous existence, providing facilities for competitive and recreational rowing as well as social facilities for its members since at least 1877. The Clubhouse in Appley Park provides boat storage, training area, men's and ladies changing facilities with showers as well as club rooms, licensed members bar and facilities for meetings, conferences etc.. The clubroom is available for members parties, weddings etc.. and the club stages a range of social events for its members. The Clubhouse has full disabled access, including ramp, stairlift and disabled toilets. Membership is open to all, subject to the completion of the application form, payment of the appropriate subscription and acceptance by the Clubs general committee. A range of membership types are available and more details and information can be obtained from the Clubs Hon. Secretary - Carole Hewision. 61, St Johns Road, Ryde, I.W. PO33 2RW. Telephone – 01983 614385. E Mail: [email protected] or visit the Club Web Site at http://www.ryderowingclub.co.uk/ CHARITY FUND RAISING. • Ryde Rowing Club has a proud fund raising tradition - and over the years has raised thousands of pounds for local and National Charities. • BETWEEN 2008 and 2015 the club raised over £4,500 for the Naomi House Children's Hospice. • Fund raising events INCLUDED a Cross Channel Row - from Dover to Calais in 2008 and a record breaking round the Island Row in 2009. • Every year the club has a nominated charity – these are usually local organisations with whom the club has a connection. Since 2016 the clubs nominated charity has been the Isle of Wight Youth Trust. The Youth Trust is A charitable independent and professional organisation offering counselling, advice, information and support services to young people under 25 on the Isle of Wight and, in some cases, their parents or carers. Ryde Rowing Club - A Brief History. A Rowing Club existed in Ryde before the foundation of our Club in 1877. It is clear that a Ryde Working Men’s Rowing Club was founded in 1861. It would appear that the Club split in 1877 – into Ryde Rowing Club and Ryde Working Men’s Club – which eventually became the Vectis Fishing and Boating Club presumably the split was bought about by the divergence of "rowing" and "fishing"! It is clear that the two clubs shared a boathouse on the pier from at least 1887 as on 30 th June that year the Ryde Working Men’s Club subscribed £75 to Ryde Rowing Club being the amount agreed towards expenses of boathouse and slipway on pier. Thereafter they paid £7- £10 per 1/2 year for rent. So while we have long believed that Ryde Rowing Club are the ” youngest” of the three existing IW Clubs (Newport, 1863 and Shanklin Sandown, 1871) it is likely that Ryde are in fact, arguably the oldest Club – having emerged from the Ryde Working Men’s Rowing Club founded in 1861! Ryde Rowing Club was founded in 1877 and is the only Isle of Wight based Rowing Club that has been in continuous existence ever since. It is believed to be one of the oldest sporting clubs in Ryde. The original Clubhouse was on Ryde Pier from where it carried out its competitive rowing and social activities until 1968 when the then landlords, British Rail, evicted the Club on the grounds that the pillars on which the Clubhouse was built were in a dangerous condition and beyond economic repair - these pillars can still be seen standing today, over 40 years later! Thanks to the old Ryde Borough Council the Club were re-housed in temporary accommodation in Appley Park which consisted of a Boathouse only, with no changing or social facilities. In spite of this the Club experienced some of its most successful seasons on the water and laid down the foundations for the even more successful years that were to follow. Thanks to further support from the Local Authority, Sports Council grant aid and a major fundraising effort by the members, a new clubhouse was opened in 1975. Still in Appley Park, Ryde, this provided changing and social facilities in addition to a boathouse. With new premises, the Club experienced a period of growth and significant improvement in performance, with a number of Hants & Dorset and South Coast Championships won and qualification for Henley on two occasions. In the mid 1990's a further problem developed with the Clubhouse suffering from major subsidence believed to be as a result of the construction of a sewage treatment works behind the building, for which the Club was not insured. As a result, a successful application was made to the Sports Aid Foundation and the National Lottery Sports Fund. This enabled the Club to rebuild a new two story Clubhouse, with much improved facilities, which opened in 1998. For a small Isle of Wight based Rowing Club, Ryde have an impressive record in the South Coast Rowing Championships since winning their first Championship event in 1978. Following on from this initial success they have won a further sixteen South Coast Championships – seventeen in total - and numerous Open and Invitation events - including the aggregate trophy for best performing Club in the Open and Invitation events at a Regatta on five occasions. Crews from Ryde have represented their Association on thirty-seven occasions and are best remembered for the outstanding achievement of the Men’s Senior Four who won the prestigious Bideford Bowl, for the South Coast Senior Men’s Championship three times in a row between 1985 and 1987 with, apart from the coxswain, an unchanged crew. In the same period this crew also won the Hants & Dorset Senior Championship three times. The Club has won forty e Hants & Dorset Championships since its first in 1962 – including four consecutive Mens Senior Sculls titles between 2004 and 2007 by Nick Pike. Two members of Ryde have gone on to row for their country, Martin Knight representing Great Britain in the Men's coxless four at the Olympic Regatta in 1984 and in the Quad Scull in the World Championships in 1985. More recently Simon Jones, who has won at Henley Royal Regatta with his university and mainland club, has represented Great Britain at under 23 and stoked the GB Lightweight four at the 2005 World Rowing Championships and won a Bronze Medal at the 2007 World Rowing Championships as a member of the GB Men’s Lightweight Quad Sculls. The Club are the current record holders for Round the Island Rowing - in a Coxed Coastal Four, in a time of seven hours, fifty-seven minutes, set in 1995 and a coxless Coastal Quad, in a Ryde record time of time of seven hours four minutes, set in 2009. Crews from Ryde have completed the Round the Island Row on thirteen occasions since the first row in 1880 and this includes the only Round the Island row by an all ladies crew in 1999 and by Cub Sculler, Nick Pike, in 2005 in a time of seven hours, fifty-two minutes and ten seconds - the first person to complete the row in a Coastal Single Scull. The Club has an active Junior Section, recognised by the Sports Governing body, British Rowing, in 2002 when we were awarded BR “Go-Row” status and accredited to run the National Junior Rowing Program.