All help and support is welcome.  We will be situated in the forecourt and setting up from 7am if you have an hour or so to help man the stall it would be appreciated, please tell your friends and family.

Click for here Charity Market May 27th 2013

Lymington Rowing Club have made a successful start to the 2013 rowing season after picking up three victories at Ryde and Shanklin over the weekend. 

Senior Chris Schreiber had the most successful weekend of all.  He picked up two victories and two second places in the Senior Scull and Senior Pair.  The Mens Junior Four also picked up a win and an extremely close second place.

Schreiber was joined on the start line for the Senior Sculls by fellow team mates Kenny Chalk and Geoffrey Fryer but got off to the best start.  With the conditions forcing some scullers to capsize throughout the day, it took an impressive performance from Schreiber to scull into the lead. 

Richard Hume of BTC pushed hard on the return leg but Schreiber had done enough and finished to take the first point of the championship.

Schreiber then teamed up with Fryer for the Senior Pair but they could only finish in second place despite a strong effort. 

It wasn’t long until Lymington had more to shout about.  It was the Junior Four crew of Club Captain Richard Wadsworth, Alex Barnes, Stuart Pink, Joe Bull and cox Tim Bull who pulled out a surprise victory.  The team, minus Barnes, had finished no higher than third at the pre-season head races.  What made the victory even more astonishing was that not only was Barnes returning as a late stand after nearly two years of non-competition but Pink was only racing his first championship race. 

Wadsworth later teamed with Sam Ayles to pick up a second place in the Junior Pair. 

Mike Leyland Jones renewed his efforts in the Junior scull despite missing much of the winter due to illness.  The conditions demanded a lot but he was able to finish in third place, giving Lymington valuable aggregate points.

Lymington also had a new crew of  Novice Ladies out in the rough.  The young crew of Jodie Irvine, Chloe Boyd, Megan Skellan and Josie Bradford had a tough debut against older competitors but got off to a good start.  The girls were right up in the lead group before a few large waves knocked them back.

They took back a few places through the turns and soon found themselves in a neck and neck battle with Newport.  The debut crew dug deep and pushed through, beating the Isle of Wight crew by a length in a final dash to the line. 

Lymington finished Ryde regatta in third place overall, but their fortunes looked to be changing for the worse come Shanklin on Sunday.

The Junior Four crew faced a huge challenge from Ryde in their final.  The local crew pulled out a lead over Lymington but a good turn from cox Bull got the team back on level terms.  The race came down to the wire but Lymington seemed to have the edge going into the last hundred yards.  With victory within their grasps, a wave halted Lymington’s run of momentum and Ryde sneaked in to snatch the win by a canvas. 

Schreiber pushed hard in his Senior Scull race but Hume was able to get his revenge.  The BTC sculler held off a big push from Schreiber to level the championship at 1-1. 

Neither Ryan Chalk in the Novice Scull, Mike Leyland Jones in the Junior Scull nor the Veteran Over 40’s could conjure up a win for Lymington.  Tim Bull and Alan Taylor narrowly missed out on victory in the Double Sculls. 

It was the team of Schreiber and Fryer who picked up the final win of the weekend.  The duo won in dominant fashion and avenged their Ryde defeat to level the championship.  Schreiber now has his foot in the door with two potential championships and Lymington as a whole will look to improve for next week’s sprint regatta at Ryde.

The Hampshire and Dorset Coastal Rowing season was scheduled to begin on the Dorset beach but high winds and cold conditions caused the race officials to cancel the days racing.

Clubs from across the Hants and Dorset region gathered near Bournemouth Pier early on Saturday morning to be greeted by a cold win and already choppy water. The Race officials, determined to get the first race of the season underway, waited patiently to see if there would be any improvement in the conditions.

The wind had other ideas. It slowly became stronger throughout the morning as the teams prepared themselves for the potential regatta.

After a brief meeting with each clubs captain’s and race coxswains, regatta control decided that the best course of action would be to send two senior race officials out to assess the course.

Lymington had a large contingent of competitors hoping to race. Mike Leyland Jones would have been up first in the Men’s Junior Scull. Lymington also had three entries in the Men’s Novice and Senior Sculls.

There were also entries for Lymington in the Men’s Senior Pair, Men’s Novice Four, Veteran over 40’s and 50’s and Men’s Junior Fours.

Ultimately the decision was made that the regatta would be scrapped. The race officials felt that cold temperatures off the water combined with low sea temperatures could be a potential problem for competitors.

This was focused specifically on the novice crews. Some rowers would be competing in their debut races and may not have practised a beach launch before.

This could cause potential chaos with freezing cold competitors struggling to get out onto the water.

Bournemouth and Westover Rowing Club will attempt to hold the regatta again despite having lost their water front rowing club last year.

The next race will be Ryde regatta on Saturday 11^th May with Shanklin on May 12^th.

If you have any ideas on the matter do not be afraid to come forward.  You can download the sponsorship form and information here.

Saturday 30th March, 10am

At least two people from each crew please. 

The more people that can help the quicker we can get it done.

Oxford & Cambridge battling it out again!

Sunday 31^st March 4:30pm

Watch it at the boat club among friends.

Godfrey are collating an order for us.  Order by end of March for delivery by 2nd weekend in May.  If you select collate order rather than deliver ASAP, then as long as someone else orders the same item, you should get a cheaper price.

e.g. If you order one singlet in club colours and so does someone else, you will pay less.

Payment will be taken just after when all orders are collated no matter when you order.

To order, go to www.godfrey.co.uk and select Lymington RC.  This page shows all the Lymington items as well as some off the shelf items like shorts.

Order by end of March for delivery by 2nd weekend in May

Prices: Ignore price they checkout at. Max price that will be charged for kit subject to price bands is the so budget accordingly. 

Shipping: The website will appear to charge you shipping, this will be discounted down to reflect the total cost of shipping the package and split evenly between everyone. 

Payments: Although credit/debit card info is provided at the time of order, no payment is taken until after the closing date, at which time discounts will be applied and correct amounts debited. 

Name on order: All orders are marked with the recipients name. (If parent please use the rowers name to stop confusion) 

Delivery Address: It doesnt matter what they put, it will come to the club. You can put "club order", your own address or anything else and it will still come to you. 

Returns: Kit CANNOT be returned for an exchange or refund once manufactured unless there is a fault with it. Its all made-to-order so completely unreturnable. If you arent sure what size to order, check with someone at the club or call Godfrey on 0115 986 4600 for help.

 We need you is an understatement! As you all know the club and friends of the club have gone through a tough time over the last eight months. The tragic loss of both Alastair and Chris has left a big hole in the lives of their family and friends and will be sorely missed.

Their roles have been vital to the smooth running of the club and their un selfishness and pursuit in helping others is what is needed once again.

We are in real need of anyone interested in taking up the role of club sectary, whether just a friend of the club or active member. The role involves a monthly meeting, sorting correspondence for the committee and comes with a laptop.

 So please, please  if anyone can help, now is the time to give a little back to a club that gives so much. You can approach any member of the committee and let your self be known.

Signed the committee.