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Update!:  2.55pm (NZ time) For the Repechage. (UK time) Tuesday 1.55am! Lane 1 Russia, 2- IRELAND, 3- Poland, 4 Italy, 5- usa Vesta member Helen Arbuthnot  is coxing for Ireland in the LTA mixed coxed four event at the World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand this week. Update from Helen: Racing was [...]

Vesta Scullers’ Head 2010 Entries Now Open (click here for info) Entries must be made through the British Rowing Online Entries system.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

In the last dash towards Henley Women’s Regatta, the Vesta Women’s squad proved yet again why they’re the crews to fear this year, making four finals at Reading Amateur Regatta, and winning two. Having destroyed the cream of British rowing at Met the previous week, the women’s Senior Eight turned their sights on the US. [...]

Vesta was represented by at the British Rowing National Masters Championships at Holme Pierrepont by the Masters D 4x of Peter Simpson, James Weatherstone, Robin Purkiss and Paul Mew, and by Paul in his single. The quad finished in the pack in a competitive final but the highlight of the day was Paul winning the [...]

Success breeds success, and in this case, highly sought after medals from The Metropolitan Regatta. The Vesta Women continue to dominate at the business end of women’s club level rowing, this time winning Women’s IM1 Eights on the Saturday and Women’s Senior Eights on the Sunday. Can anyone halt their victory strewn rampage towards Henley [...]

The Women’s Novice Squad 8+ of (cox, then S-B): Kate Garratt, Caroline Hare, Janet Kidner, Anna Van Den Berg, Sybille Schorm, Sabine Schlosser, Anneke Van Heteren, Irene Calis & Deborah Croshaw were victorious in the W.N.8+ category last weekend, empatically beating Barnes Bridge Ladies in the final by 4 and a half lengths. Following on [...]