Metropolitan Regatta
Metropolitan, the second multi-lane regatta of the season, was held at Dorney Lake on the weekend of the 30th and 31st May 2009. While we were lucky to get blue skies and sun, there was a brisk wind whipping across the course which would make attaching at the start difficult for some of the less [...]
International Gold in Ghent
The women’s squad had a successful weekend’s racing at the International Ghent May Regatta, qualifying for six finals against stiff international and domestic competition. The weekend was topped off by a win for the quad of Charlie Dempster, Kitty Lowings, Anna Barkensjo and Gaby Turner.
The senior women’s squad chunnelled and ferried over to sunny Ghent [...]
Two wins at Wallingford regatta
Vesta’s Senior and Intermediate crews raced at Wallingford regatta this weekend in the first of many multi-lane races this summer. Conditions were less than ideal, with a strong tailwind and white horses. Congratulations to the senior women who put down a marker for the summer by winning both Intermediate 2 and Intermediate 3 eights and [...]
The 55th Scullers’ Head
A veritable flotilla of Vesta scullers was out representing their club at this year’s Scullers Head.
There were some very positive results from members of all the squads despite many of the participants recovering from the recent illness that had swept through the club.
As per the norm for a Vesta event everything went smoothly and thanks [...]
Wallingford Head of the River 2008
On a wet, muddy Sunday the mens senior and novice squads travelled to the country for the annual Wallingford Head of the River.
Due to illness caused by the dreaded Norovirus the senior squad elected to race in scratch eights and despite the weather and their borrowed Hudson cornering like the Sirius Star, they managed to [...]