Scullers Head

Vesta Scullers Head 2025: Sunday 28th September, 0900

Entries

Entries close on Tuesday, 16th September 2025 at 1900.

If entries exceed our cap, we will suspend entries early and without notice. We cannot accept late entries nor offer a waiting list.

Categories

The open event will be split into four tiers - championship, senior, club and novice - based on 20%/30%/30%/20% of the non age restricted entries for each gender. For guidance, these were the limits used in the last race:

Note that a Masters category will also be available at the Novice level for open and female. The amalgamated Masters Novice categories will be awarded using the handicaps shown in the Rules of Racing. We will confirm with entrants before this category is published as we know that not all Masters have a CRI commensurate with their ability.

Junior categories (J16, J17 and Sch/Jun) as well as an U23 event are available for both Open and Female.

Lightweights

There is a single Open and a single Female lightweight category (i.e. Championship only).

Lightweights will be adjudged at "winter" weights, as shown in the Rules of Racing, i.e. 75.0kg for Open and 61.5kg for Women.

There will be a weighing in point at Vesta and one at a club near Chiswick Bridge.

Following its successful introduction in 2022: there are Masters Lightweight categories for both open and female, these will be aggregated over age categories, split into multiple age brackets if there are sufficient entries: Open (412614 "Op Mas Lwt 1x") and Female (412615 "W Mas Lwt 1x"). 

Note: lightweight entrants who fail to weigh in or who fail to make weight will race for a time only. (Categories cannot be changed once the draw has been published.)

Course

The UK's largest race for single scullers is raced along the 6.8km championship course from the University Stone at Mortlake to the downstream end of Putney Pier.

Fee

£45 per scullers. No unpaid entry will be accepted. No unaccepted entries will be in the draw.

Numbers

Numbers will be delivered to Barn Elms, AK (inc the Hammersmith clubs and Fulham Reach), Cygnet (inc. BBLRC, Emanuel), TSS, Mortlake (inc Quintin), UL & PTRC.

Those boating from the Putney clubs (i.e. between Imperial College; and London RC and Putney High School) should collect from Vesta Rowing Club from 0700 on race day.

Results and Prize Giving

Results will be published after the race has finished on Sunday 28th September.

The overall fastest female and male scullers, and category winners will be presented with their prizes in a ceremony at 1445 on the day of racing, at Vesta Rowing Club. As in previous years we hope to have a live results feed, please keep an eye on the race's (twitter) X feed.

A copy of the full BROE Notes is shared available here.