Mike Green. Christchurch R. C. and H&D ARA Life Vice President.

It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of Mike Green of Christchurch Rowing Club and a Life Vice President of the Association. Mike was a faithful servant of Christchurch Rowing Club and the Hants & Dorset ARA for a great many years and served in many different capacities for both his Club and the Association.

He will be sadly missed.

Our sympathies are extended to his family and friends and to Christchurch Rowing Club.

The arrangements will be publised here when known or contact Pete Staddon on peter.staddon@ntlworld.com

LYMINGTON ROWING CLUB. SUPPORT MIKE (AND PETE) IN HIS LONDON CLASSICS CHALLENGE!

Michael Leyland-Jones, a long-standing member of Lymington Rowing Club, is attempting to complete The London Classics challenge. This extraordinary challenge requires participants to take on all 3 of London’s toughest events. The London Marathon (26-mile run), RideLondon 100 (100 miles cycle) and the Swim Serpentine (2mile swim).

Michael has completed his ride and swim, meaning his final challenge to accomplish this remarkable trio of event is his London Marathon which is due to take place on the 4th of October. 

Due to COVID restrictions the London Marathon have created a unique opportunity to still allow participants to complete this challenge. All participants are to complete their run within their local area and use GPS to track routes and times. Due to this change in procedures another longstanding member, Peter Lock has decided to take on this challenge with Michael. 

The pair will be running from Poole in Dorset to Lymington Rowing and are hoping to complete the marathon under 5hrs.  

They have decided they would like to do this in aid of Lymington Rowing Club and would love for you to sponsor them.  

“We are both not runners (carrying a little bit of extra weight), Normal training plans allow 14-16 weeks training, we will have had only five weeks training so to go from nothing to 26.2 miles in this short time won’t be a walk in the park. 

Both of us have a passion for the rowing club and want to support it as much as we can in these COVID times therefore if you feel like sponsoring us then we would be very grateful.” 

To donate, please use the handy store below. Payment is made through the friendly folks at PayPal.

Link for donations -
https://www.lymingtonarc.co.uk/110920-Mike-London-Marathon-Classic-Challenge.php#!/Donation-Mike-&-Petes-Marathon/p/235942156/category=0

Hants & Dorset Presentation Dinner. Saturday 14th November, 2020. CANCELLED.

It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone but in the present circumstances with regards to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Government Guidelines and because the 2020 Hants & Dorset ARA Season was cancelled in it entirety the Association Executive Officers have decided that they have no choice but to cancel the planned Association Presentation Dinner at the Southampton Novotel scheduled for Saturday, 14th November, 2020.

 

We did however wonder if we could stage a less formal pre-season event around March -  Covid-19 permitting - and we would be interested hearing your views on this and who might be interested.

As an advance warning the Association is hoping to stage a "Zoom Council Meeting" on the day the Dinner was to take place - Saturday, 14th November - at a time to be decided - to cover some important areas of the Associations organization and administration - as we have been unable to stage an AGM or Autumn Council Meeting this year.

 

Possible Trial Southampton Coastal HORR - Saturday, 17th October. CANCELLED.

The Hants & dorset ARA and Southampton Rowing Club were considoring a possible Covid Secure Trial Southampton Coastal HORR - Saturday, 17th October involving only the Southampton Clubs.

This will not now go ahead at this time as although Southampton Rowing Club were fully supportive for a trial/test Head race and have crews who are keep and willing to race they had understandable concerns about the event going ahead with the present situation of national increasing Covid 19 infections and likelihood of increase of lockdown restrictions. They were also concerned about how this may appear publicly as crews congregate at the top of the river in a planned event when restrictions are likely to be in place. The course along Southampton river is very visible to the public and whilst we know that crews will have only boated from their own clubs under government guidelines, the general public would only see up to 40 rowers on the water at the same time and this could damage the good reputation the rowing clubs have built up in the local community for safety. 

For these reasons SARC feel unable to "host" the event a decesion that has been endorsed by the Hants & Dorset ARA.

 It is hoped that the event can take place on its usual date in March/April 2021.

The 2020 British Rowing Virtual Tour.

Dear would-be touring rowers!

As you know, we have had to cancel this year’s tour because of the Covid situation, but we have the next best thing – a virtual tour!  Here’s a link:

http://recrowing.org.uk/BR%20Tour%202020/Virtual_Tour.html

You can also access it via  www.recrowing.org.uk on the home page or via Lets Tour/BR Tours/2020 Tour

Under each section of the tour there’s a link to a map with information about the main places we pass through on our route.  The information pages contain further links to websites and videos.  There’s also a river map with distances and links to information about each of the locks.

On what would have been the last evening of the tour – Saturday 29^th August – we will be running an on-line quiz based on all this information (and there’s a lot!) so I hope you’ll have time to read it all.  If you would like to take part in the quiz, please register using this link (also on the website home page):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeREyUm_AuvcAcGXfPDwK8ROwB5PZe7XkJJ3MjQaA_S_dB2Og/viewform

Please promote the virtual tour within your club as an opportunity to get more people interested in tour rowing and show them some of the fascinating places along the Thames to whet their appetites for the REAL tour which will take place from:

29^th July – 1^st August 2021

Hope to see you on quiz night!

Best wishes,

Caroline Turnbull

07973 415656