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    Woolston Regatta Report

    in | DateJun 20, 2011 at 1:45PM

    Lymington Rowing Club showed that they have fighting spirit as they picked up three wins in horrible conditions at Woolston Regatta.  The Ladies Junior and Mens Senior Pairs picked up wins as well as the Veteran Over 50’s as all the crews battled not only their opponents but the changing sea and weather.

    For the past two years Lymington Rowing Club has had a dominant Veteran Over 50 squad which has picked up numerous wins including a win at the 2009 South Coast Championships before defending their title at the 2010 Championships.  Over those wins, many of them have come from close battles with Coalporters.  The main battles have come between the Coalporters A crew and the Lymington crew of Andy Tobin, Brian Oliver, Simon Wright, Geoffrey Oliver and Cox Alex Barnes.

    At the start of the 2011 season Coalporters took initial wins at Poole Regatta and Ryde but not without a hard fight from the Lymington crew.  At Woolston, however, it was all Lymington.  The Veteran final consisted of an Over 40 category and an Over 50 category in which Lymington had two entries.  The 50+ crew had a decent start and fought through the rough conditions.  Despite a strong effort from Lymington on the first leg, a crew from Southampton took the lead by a length over Coalporters and Lymington but as the crews entered the buoy turns Southampton got caught.  Strong turns from Lymington and Coalporters got the two crews back on top of the leaders.  Lymington pressed on and had got back level at the half way mark where Barnes called for a lift and the Lymington crew responded well, powering away from the opposition to take a four length lead.  The crew stayed in control and rowed home to a excellent win.  The 40+ had a strong race, despite the conditions, and finished second.

    The Mens Senior Pair team of Peter Lock and Rob Maltby were also back in action after wins at Poole and Shanklin regatta.  The two men battled the worst of the conditions as they looked to improve on their 2-1 championship lead, knowing that they would be unable to compete at Itchen Regatta on the 25th of June.  As the race started the heavens opened on the competitors as the winds whipped up and a sheet of rain came down.  Although the spectators were unable to see the course, Maltby steered an excellent race to find his way round the turns and back safely in conditions in what Lock stated where the “worst he had ever raced in.”  The duo coped better than the rest, however, as they picked up the win and the third point in the championship - giving them breathing space for Itchen regatta.

    The Ladies Junior Pair of Livvi Bull and Lucy Taylor took part in the final that ran alongside the Ladies Senior Pair final.  The girls hard training through the winter paid off as they took the lead from Shanklin, mastering the rough conditions to storm to an emphatic victory.  The win was the first of the season for the girls who, will be working hard to pick up more wins in the rest of the season.

    Lymington had two entries in the Mens Novice Fours and Novice Sculls division.  The Novice Fours A crew of Joe Bull, Zac Hywel Davis, Jonny Clarke and Jeremy Baker had a close fought heat as despite an incredible effort they just missed out on the final in a race where three lengths separated first from eighth. The Lymington B crew of Richard Waddsworth, Charlie Weston and George Verdon had a rower from Itchen join them due to their stroke Craig Foot being injured but the composite team reached the final.  The crew then had a strong race and finished sixth in their first final appearance as a crew.

    In the Mens Novice Sculls, Alex Barnes and James Phillips took to the rough conditions.  Barnes proved that in the rough, finishing was as important as speed as he qualified to the final in third place as the last person to finish the course.  In the final, Barnes then gained fourth place after being the last sculler to successfully negotiate the course.  Despite normally rowing in the Junior Senior Four crew (which maintains a 2-1 lead in the championship), Phillips also braved the rough conditions, but sadly didn’t make the final.