Vesta Rowing Club

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A fantastic Vesta tradition continued this year with the Vice Presidents of the club hosting a drinks reception for the Henley Royal Regatta and the Henley Women’s Regatta athletes. On Wednesday the 4th of July, the members of Vesta turned their dry cleaning post Henley of club blazers around quickly to ensure they were looking [...]

Henley Royal Regatta means different things to different people. For some it is a social event involving nice hats and daytime drinking with people in boats in the background. For others it is an annual opportunity to catch up with old crew mates and support friends and family who are racing. For us it is [...]

Annual Blackstaffe Day, in honor of Harry Blackstaffe, one of the most successful members of of Vesta, will be held on August 18th this year. All participants must wear a mustache! Racing will be followed by a Disney themed party hosted by the Dev Girls. More info to follow, so stay posted!

As the Int4+ woke up on Friday morning to “Eye of the Tiger” pumping through the speakers Vanessa Ibbett, Sam Bowman, Briony Martin, Niamh Murphy O’Connor and Celeste Boruvka all felt the understandable nerves of a development squad going to their very first Henley experience. The slightly stressful journey to Henley in rush hour traffic [...]

Buoyed by the success at Reading, the stage was set for Vesta vs. Bucknell 2 – the sequel. Conditions were tough but the Elite 8+ was strengthened by the return of the super-sub Ailsa “Tremendous” Tremayne and we were raring to go. Brock Snr had another shot at the illusive rate 50…. The row up [...]

Prior to the actual race report I just wanted to put this race into context as perhaps on paper the verdicts in the run up to the final don’t best reflect the true efforts of what was actually achieved by the Vesta Intermediate 8+ winners of Henley Womens’ Regatta this year. As Murray goes into [...]

Preceding England’s loss on penalties to the Azzurri, English rowers had to first face a loss to Italy as one of Vesta’s several Italians, Stefano, crushed some rowing dream by winning IM3 1X at Richmond Regatta. With a burgeoning reputation, Vesta’s Sardinian sculler took to the water for his heat and despite the rain and being [...]

With Henley week finally upon us, most of us are keeping our fingers crossed for good weather, while the rowers undertake their final preparations. The Vesta men pre-qualified two boats, one for the Thames Cup (8+) and one for the Wyfold (4-), thereby not having to endure Friday’s qualifiers which were held in conditions not [...]

It was with some trepidation that the E4- of Lara Brock, Nell Pascall, Aga Siemiginowska and Kat Hedges arrived in Henley on Sunday morning for their race against ARSA Skadi. Internet trawling and the usual cyber stalking had yielded little in the way of information about the opposition due to it being in a foreign [...]

It was a valiant effort from the senior squad’s IM3 coxed IV, comprising Alana Holloway, Athene McGregor-MacDonald, Jenny Cann, Laura Goulding (s) and coxed by Jamie Wooller, a crew which had spent a total of 1.5 weeks together prior to HWR. Thanks go out to the brave Laura Goulding for stepping in and stroking the boat [...]