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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 [...]

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. Following [...]

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 [...]

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 Women’s [...]

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 from [...]

After wins at Quintin and Hammersmith Women’s Head and a fantastic squad result with the first boat coming 22nd in the Women’s Head of the River Race (4th & 21st in IM2 and 50th in IM3) there was expectation in the air for a another good summer performance for the Women’s Senior Squad following their [...]

A large contingent from all the squads had a good days racing at Molesey and recorded four wins.
There was a long overdue novice win for the NV 4+ of Philippa Le Roux, Harriet Caldwell-Nichols, Janine Snape, Robyn MacCrimmon, steered by Kate Garratt, a huge win for Michael Hughes in his third Novice 1x final of [...]

Vesta had a great run at Henley Women’s Regatta impressively reaching two finals.

The intermediate coxed four of Vics Mcleod-More, Aga Siemiginowska, Emily Druce and Natasha Henderson-Ross with Andrew MacMillan coxing did well to qualify in a strong field. Sadly, they then lost to eventual finalists City of Oxford in the first round.

The eight of Verity [...]

While the women were busy destroying the opposition in Henley, the men’s squad raced in eights and fours at Dorney. Coming first in their IM2 eights heat, second in the semi and fourth in the final, the Senior Men’s 8+ of Alisdair Anderson, Rob Shaw, Josh McInerney, Mat Jozwiak, Laurence Manning, Alister Campbell, James Watts, [...]

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 [...]