{"id":2407,"date":"2023-10-31T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:25:40","slug":"freshwater-sprints-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"Freshwater Sprints 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lorna writes:<\/strong> Attendance was lower at this year’s Freshwater Sprints than normal from most clubs, mainly due to the yellow weather warning across parts of east of Scotland, and various road works on the A9.\u00a0 However, this didn\u2019t deter the \u2018three amigos\u2019 from Queensferry Rowing Club, determined to participate in some rowing despite the weather \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Three Amigos: Lorna, Richard and Elina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Richard and Elina travelled together and competed in four races each, whilst I competed in three, taking up the offer of a lift from Barbara, who braved the weather to take some fab photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our region was the South East and we were using one of North Berwick’s skiffs.\u00a0 The boat which was used for the Rest of the World was Spirit of Catterline.\u00a0 None of us had rowed in these boats before so we had mixed views on foot rests and oars etc.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, Catterline had their stroke oar on the port side which was the first\u00a0 time I had experienced this set up.\u00a0 We all agreed after our experiences that we appreciated our beautiful skiffs,\u00a0 Ferry Maid and Ferry Lass in which we feel much more comfortable and easier to handle. I should add that it is always a good experience to race in other boats, and with members from other clubs if you get the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure you are all desperate to know how we got on… unfortunately no medals, but each race was very close, competing in six lanes, including a starboard turn.\u00a0 Richard placed 2nd<\/sup> in the Men\u2019s Open, 3rd<\/sup> in the Mixed Novice and 6th in the second of the long distance races (around 2km).\u00a0 Elina placed 4th<\/sup> in Rest of the World Novice and was alongside myself, a lady from North Berwick and Exmouth (cox was from Port Seton) for the Women\u2019s 2nd<\/sup> Sprint where we also finished 4th. \u00a0She also rowed in the Women\u2019s Open placing 4th<\/sup>.\u00a0 All three of us rowed together for the 40+ Mixed, with a lovely gentleman from Orkney stepping in to help us in bow position, and our cox was from Port Seton.\u00a0 I thought this was lovely as I had never rowed with, or even met Elina until earlier that day.\u00a0 We were all enjoying the rowing so like the other two I competed in one race for the Rest of the World, in which I came 4th<\/sup>, coxed by our Orkney man, crewed by two from Loch Awe and Cromarty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the action at Loch Tummel, with North West region showing winning form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The weather was mixed during the day, with some misty rain and occasional heavy showers and very muddy on foot.\u00a0 It cleared up a little at lunchtime which was nice, and couldn\u2019t help but take in the spectacular views with gorgeous autumnal colours.\u00a0 The racing started on time at 10am after the coxes briefing and very quickly the timings were up to half an hour to an hour, ahead of schedule.\u00a0 The aim was to stop for lunch but as the weather wasn\u2019t the best, the racing continued on through, finishing around 3.15pm.\u00a0 At least it wasn\u2019t cold and windy, and we sheltered in the clubhouse for copious amounts of lovely food and refreshments from the club canteen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lorna and Elina set out on a race<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The medal ceremony took place around 3.30pm in which the North West Region won the overall trophy\/shield.\u00a0 The medals were on lovely red ribbons and were made out of wood in the shape of a skiff (apologies no photos \u2639).\u00a0 The SCRA AGM started earlier than usual at around 4.30pm and finished around 5.15pm.\u00a0 Barbara and I attended on behalf of QRC as there were no members of the current Committee in attendance and they needed to have a certain amount of attendees for a quorum. \u00a0I’ve shared a very brief report of this via the club email group, but the official report will be on the SCRA website<\/a> and Facebook page<\/a> in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On behalf of Richard and Elina, I would like to say that we had a lovely day and enjoyed all our rowing, despite being a little damp by the end of it.\u00a0 Elina is going to send a message of thanks to North Berwick through email\/social media for use of their boat.\u00a0 I hope this gives you a little idea of how the day went.\u00a0 Thank you, see you at next year\u2019s sprints. \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More photos on the club’s Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorna writes: Attendance was lower at this year’s Freshwater Sprints than normal from most clubs, mainly due to the yellow weather warning across parts of east of Scotland, and various road works on the A9.\u00a0 However, this didn\u2019t deter the \u2018three amigos\u2019 from Queensferry Rowing Club, determined to participate in some rowing despite the weather … Continue reading “Freshwater Sprints 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}