LONDON ROWING CLUB Newsletter April 2011 Head of the River Race Vernon Trophy LRC1 showing good form as they wind to the finish to take the Vernon Trophy (for Tideway clubs) for the third successive year. Scullers’ Head of the River IMPORTANT Blackstaffe In future your newsletters Trophy will be sent to you by email - see inside (p4) for full details of what you need to do to ensure they reach you. With stunning results from the Scullers’ Head and GB trials, Stephen Feeney (here seen going afloat for the CULRC fixture) has been enjoying his winter on the water One of the commemorative oars won by the late Robert Forbes, now beautifully restored and hanging in the Members’ Room - see p6 1 Vesta Scullers Head, 27 th November 2010 Racing results We have had quite a few near misses in recent years - th Ian Watson in 2001, James Lindsay-Fynn in 2008, and Teddington Small Boats Head, 6 November Richard Dunley in 2009 all took second place; but this year, A week before the Fours Head, the squad descended Stephen Feeney topped the lot and became the first LRC on Teddington’s curtain-raiser with three quads and seven outright winner of this event - plus the Elite Lightweight fours. In thin competition in Division 1, the club took the title - since Doug Melvin took his second title in 1958 - and first four places overall, winning both quad sculls and Doug was sculling in John of Gaunt colours. coxless fours pennants, and ten out of the top fifteen places. So warmest congratulations to Stephen on a superb th achievement, as well as to Dominic Wilson (Im2 Lwt) and Veteran Fours Head, 13 November 2010 Alex Cawthorne (Im1 Lwt) who won their respective In a reversal of the usual order of events, this year’s categories. And there was strong support - from a total race was held on the Saturday. LRC boated two boats, a entry of 31 LRC scullers, there were three pennants, plus Masters B coxless four; and a Masters G quad which had a five second places, and four thirds. One of those second good row to win its division. places belonged to the evergreen Martin Gaylard, now in Crew: Robin Hulf (bow), Christopher Grainger, Simon Porter, the Masters’ H division, who has competed at very nearly Mike Baldwin (str) every Scullers’ Head since the very first in 1954. Pos th Fuller’s Fours Head, 14 November Pos Name Cat Cat Time This year’s race was scheduled for the Sunday, a 1 S Feeney E Lwt 1 21:31.24 dpearture from the norm forced on the organisers by the 6 D Wilson Im2 Lwt 1 21:48.39 tide tables - a 9.30 a.m. start being the earliest thought 10 A Cawthorne Im1 Lwt 1 21:53.31 practicable with a capacity field of over 500 boats. Conditions were friendly if dull - a vast improvement over 18 R De Keizer E 4 22:01.43 the previous year’s cancellation-inducing gale. 22 S Heap Im2 Lwt 2 22:04.08 There were excellent performances from LRC1 to take 25 C Anness Im1 Lwt 2 22:07.17 third place overall, and from LRC 2 who took a good third 33 A Maitland Im1 Lwt 3 22:12.34 place in Elite coxless fours. And there were solid 36 D Loveday Im2 Lwt 3 22:18.37 performances from the two Im1 quads to win top twenty 40 M Espin Im1 2 22:22.42 places overall. 42 T Grant Im3 3 22:23.16 Pos Crew Cat Time Pos Cat 48 C Jarvis Im3 4 22:29.69 3 LRC 1 E Lwt 4x 18:23.94 2/6 54 V Giorgis Im2 Lwt 5 22:33.30 13 LRC 6 Im1 4x 18:45.33 6/46 62 M Dwan Nov 3 22:38.63 16 LRC 5 IM1 4x 18:53.58 9/46 64 C Magee Im1 Lwt 4 22:40.71 65 I Weir Im3 5 22:41.64 37 LRC 2 E 4- 19:17.28 3/15 73 S Salter Im3 Lwt 4 22:45.08 86 LRC 9 Im1 4- 19:46.51 8/46 75 C Hayes Sen 7 22:46.53 103 LRC 3 E 4- 19:52.71 10/15 76 A Murray Im2 13 22:46.85 111 LRC 8 Im1 4- 19:57.26 10/46 78 N Jorgensen Im3 6 22:47.74 128 LRC 4 E 4- 20:08.41 13/15 90 P Halford Mas D 2 22:55.94 172 LRC 10 Im2 4+ (C) 20:26.99 10/43 96 S O’Connor Im3 10 23:02.26 189 LRC 7 Im1 4- 20:32.48 25/46 107 A Calvert-Ansari Im2 8 23:07.04 240 Molesey/LRC WIm1 4x 20:54.38 8/29 115 E Gill Im1 8 23:14.44 128 M Aldred Nov 9 23:20.52 Crews: 158 N Parnell Im1 Lwt 8 23:43.15 LRC 1: Richard Dunley, Dominic Wilson, Stephen Feeney, Alex Cawthorne 164 R McGow Im2 21 23:45.13 LRC 2: Iain Weir, Edward Birrell, Marco Espin, Mark Aldred 169 C Rumboll Mas B 7 23:49.73 211 A Higgs Im3 23 24:16.67 LRC 3: Adam Wood, Richard Gilfillan, Daniel Pring, Steve O’Connor 313 N Bolsin W Im3 7 25:25.71 LRC 4: Josh McInerney, Nikolai Jorgensen, Alexander Higgs, Robbie McGow 385 M Gaylard Mas H/I(H) 2 26:54.76 LRC 5: Andrew Murray, Matthew Bell, Tim Grant, Chris Thomas 399 R Metcalf Mas D 23 27:39.65 LRC 6: Chris Anness, David Loveday, Vincent Giorgis, Stuart Heap Remenham Challenge, 16 th January LRC 7: Andrew Isaac, Matthew Coughlan, Daniel Longman, This year’s race was run on the Tideway between Alexie Calvert-Ansari Chiswick Pier and the LRC flagpole. LRC 8: Christian Knutsen, Steve Salter, Edward Gill, Charles LRC entered five squad crews, all in the elite category, Dunlop-Cunnington plus Masters B and F eights. The first eight came away with LRC 9: Ashley Maitland, Merlin Dwan, Henry Bennett, the Elite pennant with a six second margin over Thames A, Charlie Jarvis with second and third boats respectively 4th and 5th, less LRC 10: Matthew Hulett, George Hobson, Nicholas Parnell, than two seconds apart. Matt Poulsom, Jason Gray First eight: Richard Dunley, Richard Gilfillan, Matt Bell, Mark Molesey BC/LRC: Antonia Perlowska-Goose, Debbie Pyke, Aldred, Chris Thomas, Steve O’Connor, Stephen Feeney, Alex Eleanor Blackwell, Natasha Bolsin (LRC) Cawthorne, Jess Terrell (cox) 2 Pos Crew Elapsed time Corrected time overall in 17m 17.11s and retain the Vernon Trophy for the 1 LRC A 11:24.98 third successive year. Eighth place overall (sixth excluding 4 LRC B 11:44.60 overseas entries) is a considerable achievement for a 5 LRC C 11:46.13 mainly lightweight boat containing five oarsmen eligible for 9 LRC D 12:03.17 the Henley club events. 13 LRC E 12:20.73 However the 47 second gap back to LRC 2 in 52nd 15 LRC Masters B 12:33.95 12:27.95 place was wider than had been hoped for from an 21 LRC Masters F 13:57.91 12:46.91 experienced and talented crew. Less than half a second behind LRC 2 was LRC 4 containing some useful, mostly Quintin Eights Head, 29 th January lightweight, talent; and LRC 3 and 5 were both within This early season head, raced from the Stone at fifteen seconds of LRC 2. So some strength in depth was Mortlake to Hammersmith Bridge, has been growing in shown, with five crews in the top hundred; but there is popularity and now attracts over 100 entries. LRC entered much work to be done to achieve real competitiveness in four boats. LRC 1 won the Senior pennant, taking second summer racing. place overall in 11:21.4, beaten only by the Cambridge Finish (Start) Crew Status Time blue boat. The club also took 8th, 14th, and 18th places. 8 (7) LRC 1 Elite 17:17.11 First eight: Ashley Maitland, Chris Anness, David Loveday, 52 (15) LRC 2 Senior 18:04.65 Stuart Heap, Richard Dunley, Alex Cawthorne, Stephen Feeney, Mark Aldred, Jess Terrell (cox) 54 (69) LRC 4 IM1 18:05.12 78 (48) LRC 3 IM2 18:16.73 Henley Fours & Eights Head, 19 th February The club took a number of fours and quads to Henley. 86 (138) LRC 5 IM1 18:18.81 In Division 1 (fours and quads), the Im2 quad stroked by 219 (157) LRC 6 IM1 19:12.06 Stuart Heap took third place overall and won its category; Crews (from bow) whilst the Im2 coxed four also won. And the senior quad LRC 1: Richard Dunley, Alex Cawthorne, Marco Espin, Tim with Stephen Feeney took second overall. Grant, Stephen Feeney, Rob Williams, James Lindsay-Fynn, In the afternoon Division, a single LRC eight raced and Mark Aldred, Jess Terrell (cox) achieved a respectable 6th out of 21 in the Im2 category. LRC 2: David Loveday, Richard Gilfillan, Chris Thomas, James th Young, Herbie Griffin, Steve O’Connor, Dan Pring, Ed Birrell, Boustead Cup, 6 March Hannah Burke (cox) This year’s match was to take place on the flood from Putney to Mortlake, and with Thames having shown LRC 3: Josh McInerney, Danny Longman, Alexander Higgs, Nikolai Jorgensen, Kevin Du Toit, Ed Gill, Matthew Hulett, considerable promise in early season races, hopes were Merlin Dwan, Eleanor Conway (cox) high for a memorable contest.