Henley Masters Regatta 2011
Vesta had an extremely successful weekend of racing at Henley Masters Regatta. George Fieldhouse and Barry Clarke won Masters B 2- and then doubled up with Helen Gray, Jamie Halliday and Michael Hughes to win the Masters B 4+. Photo copyright BigBlade Photography: http://www.bigblade-photos.com In the 2- George and Barry overcame the current National Masters [...]
Vesta Wins Club 8+ HWR 2011!
Vesta Wins Club 8+ HWR 2011! I’m extremely pleased to report that Vesta Rowing Club was once again triumphant at Henley Women’s Regatta. We won the Club Eights, beating Mortlake Anglian and Alpha Boat Club by 3L in a time of 5 minutes 9 seconds, having dispatched Thames RC A, Royal Chester and Cantabrigian in [...]
Womens’ Head of the River Race 2011
Vesta entered four crews in the WeHORR this year and for the first time ever we had two crews finish in the top 35! The IM1 crew, consisting of (from stroke to bow) Ellie Dorman, Helen Edwards, Ailsa Tremayne, Lara Brock, Nell Pascall, Aga Siemiginowska, Caroline Newbury, Kat Hedges and Ro Thompson (cox) finished an [...]
Henley 4s and 8s Head & OUWBC 19th/20th February
The girls squad hit Henley in force, competing in all three divisions. The women’s novice 4+ (Maria-Elena Nilsback, Sarah Head, Sian Withers, Pernille Sahl & Laura Forsyth (cox)), kicked off the racing and despite unfortunately catching a crab, they finished fourth in their division (out of 10) with a time of 14mins 52. The development [...]
Quintin Head, Saturday 29th January
The Quintin Head course is a familiar stretch of the river for us, running from Chiswick Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge. The women’s squad entered WIM3 and won the category convincingly with a time of 12.59.4. Moreover, they were the fastest women’s crew of the day, beating 30 other women’s crews and a few men’s crews [...]
Remenham Challenge Cup, Sunday 16th January
The Remenham Challenge Cup was held on the Tideway, a downriver course from Chiswick Pier to the London RC flagpole. Vesta entered a grand total of seven crews in the Remenham Head, which was a great turnout for one of the first races of the season. The senior women’s squad entered both the Women’s Elite [...]
Tour du Lac 2010
So, after intensive preparation and kit accumulation, mainly involving dinners, vino and the odd quad sesh – team “Swift Conqueror” (four parts Vesta, one part Mortlake, shaken not stirred) eventually found ourselves set to travel to Geneva with some very heavy bags (well Verity and I did, because we had baggage allowance on BA and [...]
Two Wins at the Lea
A small group of scullers came away with two wins after making the journey to north London to represent the club at the Lea Autumn regatta in the traditional end to the summer season. Michael Hughes and Jon Brown raced in the IM2 1x and IM3 1x respectively, Big Jon qualified for the final after [...]
Summer 2010 So far…..
Since the ‘serious’ rowing ended there has been some even fiercer pot and cap hunting going on. Here is a roundup of the Summer 2010 Vesta wins so far: Jamie Wooller won Novice Singles at Richmond Regatta Bevan Goulden, Laurence Manning, Nick Nevelling, Harry Bond, Alister Campbell, Chris Clements, Chris Burnell and Jamie Wooller, coxed [...]
Oops, they did it again!
I am absolutely thrilled to report our senior women won the GP Jefferies Cup, the senior eights event at Henley Women’s Regatta beating Newcastle University by 3 1/2 lengths into second place in a fantastic performance yesterday afternoon. Our winners had previously beaten Queens University Belfast, University College Dublin, and Nereus (Netherlands) in the heats, [...]