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News -  The latest on what's happening at the club.  You don't have to be a member to 
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Especially since it's an ex' Olympics boat from Atlanta.  Just to put further pressure on boat storage, the club has just finalised the purchase of a middleweight racing double for $9,000. The boat is a 1996 Sykes and was used by the American Women's double in the Atlanta Olympics, but has been in storage for the best part of the last year. The boat will be used by two girls from Penrhos/ECUP at the nationals in Queensland and will be brought back on the state trailer.  The boat will be available for use in the current pennant season.

The club was looking to purchase two lower standard doubles for recreational and novice racing use of a similar standard to the existing blue striped Sykes double at a much lower cost, but has had no success from wanted adverts placed on several websites and in the latest edition of Rowtrade.  As the cost of a new fibreglass double is also around $9,000 delivered to Perth, the decision was made to buy a top end boat which became available and to formally filter down the blue striped Sykes double for use by experienced recreational crews and in novice competition. We are still looking for another fibreglass double and have the option of either ordering a new one at a cost of around $9,000 or waiting to see what turns up. To relieve part of the current demand for recreational doubles, riggers are being made up to convert the Loongana (wooden pair) to a double.

Admittedly the century has only just begun, but that's no reason to talk down what's being billed as the biggest intraclub grudge race since, well, ever !  Fueled by a few cosmopolitans down at the Como a couple of weeks ago, April has thrown down the challenge to Chesty Bond and the Bravo Boys over 500m.  Of course there's a catch.  The boys have to row the fat four (aka, the Drok), while the girls weapon of choice is a coxed quad.  Loser buys the Guiness and the winner drinks it all.  Boys, dust of those pint glasses (i can afford to be biased, i'm their coach !).  Sat' the 7th April is the big event.  A huge crowd is expected so be there early !

In other crew news, the Men's novice eight have finally ended their search for the holy grail - an eight that will actually still float while they're in it !  An average crew weight of 90+ kg has generally put all the current fleet to the test, but the McGoffin has proved up to the task.  The Reg Day was looking good until it's three seat met it's Waterloo in the form of Steve (the mad) Monk.  I guess we now know what the max' load on a wooden seat is hey Steve !

Still, we're glad to see some sweep oar crews out on the water getting ready for the Perth to Freo.  As Glyn rightly pointed out, the sculling group have won 14 championships since a sweep oar crew last tasted success, so it's about time they got their act together.  Sounds like a challenge.  We'd better discuss it over a beer !  

Speaking of Glyn, he seems to have been the target of some sledging on the Message Board lately.  Well, what are you waiting for ?  Feel free to join in !

 

The Federation Sculls Challenge replaces the usual sculling head race from Guildford back to Garrett Rd bridge on Saturday, the 28th of April.  The best part about this race is that it's open to recreational, as well as race rowers, which will hopefully get the number of entrants up close to 100.  It should look great and you can find out more about it here.

 

The shed is positively groaning under the weight of new equipment that's been making its way into the club lately but thankfully, it's finally all here.  Now we just have to find somewhere to put it.  Oh yes, we're still waiting for our new ergo.  It's in Victoria somewhere, but it'll be here soon.

The new eights have been picked up from both Hale and Christchurch and the four (which is pretty much an exact match for the Drok) has also made it back from Victoria.  Good to see a few more sweep oar boats being added to the fleet and even better to see people around to row them.

 

If you're thinking about coming down to the club after work during the week and throwing some weights around, doing an ergo or even (god forbid) going for a row, make it Wednesday night.  From now on, the bar will be open every Wed' night from 7:30 onwards, so everyone can get together after a row or a workout and have a couple of beers after and maybe even get Brett's Pizza to do a mercy dash with emergency supplies.  John and Pam will be down to look after any recreational rowers who don't have a set crew from 6pm and they'll also be looking at getting a circuits program up and running in the gym.  With Richo, Golden and Chesty Bond and the Bravo boys lining up as Wednesday night regulars, it's going to be big !

Of course, all these great times come at a cost.  Yep, membership fees for 2001 are now due.  You can check how much it'll cost you (dirt cheap if you think about how much gear there is and how often you can use it) by going to the Membership page.

 

Yep, it's finally all over for another year.  The biggest ever ANA Challenge Cup has been run and won.  The event was a huge success and ran (mostly !) like clockwork, thanks to the hard work of a large number of club members and friends.  To give you an idea of how big this event was, 42 crews entered, to race 78 races on the day, after completing over 200 training sessions in the lead up to the regatta, which resulted in the club making around $8,700 hard earned dollars.  All of that goes into new boats and oars which will benefit every member.

I'll do a full write up on the event shortly, but just to cap the highlights:  The Men's division was won by the Inteworks crew of John and Grace (who seem to be making a career out of coaching Challenge Cup finalists !) in an ultra close finish over Steve Bourne's Poys.  Two Clough Engineering crews combined to form 'Butterseptics' and take out the Mixed division over the HyperActiv Dragons and the Women's division saw 'Beginners Luck' brilliantly coached (by yours truly, ahem..) and coxed (legendry effort Jen') to victory over yet another Inteworks crew.

Once again, great effort by all the club members and competitors involved. 

 

The draw has been done and the race times can be downloaded in an Excel spreadsheet.  Click here to download the file.  Be careful to line up your crew name with the correct race time.  Some crews will have a bye in the first round.  For a full list of all the teams and their crew members, click here.

Coaches and crews, it is your responsibility to know when you're racing and to be ready to get into a boat 15 minutes before your race time.  Check the program carefully, especially checking to see if you've been combined with another crew to form a combination in a division other than your main entry.  Ie: Mens crews, check the mixed division to determine if you're racing there after being combined with a women's crew.  

The mixed category races are first up, starting at 10:30 and there's a crew briefing at 10am for all crews.  See you there.

 

In the case of the Challenge Cup next weekend, the member of each winning crew gets one of these.   trophy.jpg (34112 bytes)

You can click on the photo for a larger view if you like.

 

Guess which crew will be rowing arms only, square blades, to Guildford and back on Wednesday night, after foolishly throwing their coach off the end of the jetty, just because it happened to be his birthday ?   Yes, the novice men couldn't resist seeing if Davo floated (and i might add, that water tasted like s**t !).  Dare i say it, Davo still gets no respect in this club.  Oh, revenge will be sweet.

In other news, Glyn (radar) Heath is in danger of losing his reputation of having "the knowledge", when it comes to where all the spit posts are on our stretch of the river.  There's been rumours of hitting several buoys, as well as jusssssssst spotting and avoiding a spit post while slacking off in bow seat, steering the TIP girls quad.  How do i know all this you may ask ?  Well, a certain crew member was too chicken to sledge Glyn on the message board, so she thought she'd go under cover and 'leak' this highly sensitive information instead.  As such, i can't possibly reveal her identity (oh ok, it was Jess !).

 

Welcome to the first Captain's report of the year.  Now that i've officially taken the reins back from Simon, I thought i'd do a quick "month that was".  Actually, most of this stuff has already been covered on this page at some stage, so i'll keep it brief.  First up was the AGM and Annual Dinner.  Great job by all who organised and helped out on the night. If you want to know who's been elected to the committee positions, check the "our people" page.  Speaking of our people, good luck to Simon and Elspeth who are heading over to Columbia for a couple of years.  I hope you've got web access over there so you can keep us up to date with regular updates on the message board.  

It's been great to see so many pub and club crews on the water. All up, there's 40 entered for the event which makes it the biggest ever. Well done to all the coaches who've helped out, especially those taking on several crews at a time.  

Sweep oar crews news: After a couple of years of virtually every rower having an oar in each hand, it's nice to see some sweep oar crews out on the water.  Steve Wienke's novice girls have made their intentions clear for the year, by turning up to the Annual Dinner with half a carton of Crownys. Way to go girls ! The novice men, abley led by Chesty Bond, have taken to the idea of Wednesday night beers after training, with a gusto rarely seen in the boat.  Might i add, that anyone is welcome in the clubrooms around 7:45 on Wednesday night for a beer or two.  John Tomczak's novice eight has, to the best of my knowledge, managed to stay off the grog and concentrate on rowing which is just as well, considering their general lack of being over 18.  The aim is to have two, if not three eights entered for the Perth to Freo'.

In environmental news, it's been a great month for dolphins with regular sightings out on the water.  Charmaine swears she also saw a shark, so if it's getting late one evening and that sculler you saw go out three out ago still isn't back, they may not be doing an extra long row after all ! 

Well, that's Feb'.  March should be a lot more hectic. See you on the water.

Both Hale and Christchurch schools, will be training their first and second eights from the second bay this weekend.  All of our eights will be stored offsite for the weekend, to make room for the school boats.  As such, there shouldn't be too much inconvenience to club crews.  Both Hale and Christchurch have helped the club out recently with regards to boat purchases and loans, so please make them welcome in the shed over the weekend.

 

The first of the club's recent boat purchases is now in the shed.  The Drock is the blue, plastic coxed four on trestles in the second bay and it's ready for use by Challenge Cup crews for training.  Have fun.

 

Just a reminder that crews must have their entry forms in to Dave Haines by Monday the 5th March at the absolute latest.  Either drop them in the suggestions box down at the club, or hand them to Dave on Saturday or Sunday morning.  All forms should be accompanied by payment (preferably a cheque).

 

If you're coaching a crew or rowing in one at the Challenge Cup, there's a few things you'll need to know about the day.  Basically, there's a crew briefing at 10am with the first race at 10:30.  Races will be held every 4 minutes, so crews have to be on their toes and know their races times.  The finals are scheduled to be held around 4:30pm so if you keep winning, it's an all day event.

Click here for more details.

 

There's a couple of classics in here.  Click on the photos for a better look.

Annual dinner 1    Annual dinner 2    Shit stirrers award handover    Simon sculls !    Chris and Liam    Chris and Liam again.    Richo.    Tim, Friendly, Annette and Tegan.    Richo, Annetteand bub and Tim

 

With still just under three weeks to go until the Challenge Cup regatta, we've just cracked the 40 crews mark.  While this is great news, it's also going to be a bit daunting come the regatta.  We're going to need lots of help on race day.  Fortunately, plenty of people having being offering their help but as always, we can do with a few more.  Please keep the 11th of March free if you can and let Dave know you're available.

 

Luck continues to fall our way with equipment purchases.  The restricted four that the club was chasing in Country Victoria looks like it could be ours with transport difficulties in getting it to Perth falling away.  Just to recap, there is an old fibreglass coxed four for sale in Hamilton, Victoria (near SA border). You can't expect a great deal for $1,800 but the club assures me it is still solid and fine for beginners and corporate events (indestructible was the description!!). However, they are sending over some photos to show it is not a complete wreck.

The intention is to replace the Cooper and Carlin with this boat and a similar one we are in the process of buying from Christchurch Grammar School here in Perth for $2,200. The Hamilton Club is going to the Vic' State Champs at Lake Nagambie and can meet up with the WA trailer there which will enable us to get the boat back to Perth at nil transport cost. Big thanks to Nick Garratt for helping us out with this. The club had originally allowed $4K each for these. As it turns out it looks like we will replace the two for that cost.

The Christchurch four along with a fibreglass eight purchased in December for $1,100 may be picked up this weekend, logistics permitting and the club will also be looking at an 8+ that Hale have offered to us.  These purchases will allow the club to replace several of its wooden, bottom of the range boats with old but serviceable fibreglass equivalents with much lower maintenance requirements at an extremely low cost.  It is important to recognise, that the boats will probably not go a great deal faster, but will last longer and as indicated, be easier to look after.  Less maintenance has to be a good thing.

We're also aiming to pick up an ex' sculling academy boat at some stage this year should one become available.  These are the Howell/Watermark style boats that currently make up the racing fleet.  An ad' has also been placed on the Rowing Queensland website looking for several Sykes fibreglass doubles $4K to $5K each (ideally similar to the blue double) which will allow us to upgrade the recreational doubles and get rid of the Rogers.  No response to date.  

Enquiries are being made with Marinways on an upgraded outboard and hull, as there are concerns from a number of parties over our existing dinghies and motors.  The aim over time will be to try and maintain two good motors and hulls and keep a third as a basic but serviceable reserve for regattas and for periods when the others may be being serviced.  Marineways have a trade in hull currently available and expect several two year old motors to be traded, in the next six months.

So that's it.  That's basically what we're looking at buying over the next few months.

The AGM and Annual Dinner were held in conjunction at Tranby House and it was a great night all round.  

First up, the AGM was completed which included a rundown on the club's financial situation (very healthy) as well as the election of the new committee for 2001.  See the 'our people' page to see all the new faces and find out who'll be running the club for you in 2001.  As soon as the minutes are available, they'll be posted on the club's website for all to see.

Next up, it was on to the Annual Dinner, for which Pam Seymour deserves a big thankyou for doing an excellent job of organising.  A great dinner was supplied by Verscheer Catering and thanks also to Olympic coach Nick Garrett, for coming along and giving a talk about his leadup to the big event with the men's quad.  The club wishes Nick well in his new position as head coach of the NSW rowing squad.

Onto the awards for the year and the winners were:

Best Male Novice - Gino DiFranco  (come back Gino, you can still be ready for this season !)
Best Female Novice - Kelly Cook
Most Improved - Brett  Delar
Best OarsPerson - Glyn Heath  (going for a threepeat of Vet's singles and doubles this year)
Best Clubperson - John Tomczak & Dave Haines  (but also honorable mentions to Peter Zappa, Chris Marinelli,  Siok Cheng, Pam Seymour, Steve Wienke, Steve Bourne and Tim Boyle.

and of course the shit stirrers award ?  None other than Simon Cook.   Well done to all the winners.  Once we get a few photos back, i'll try and post them up somewhere on the site.

 

Well, we're getting there as far as numbers are concerned.  Latest count is about 30 crews already entered (give or take a couple either way) with hopefully a few more to come.  Good efforts by Steve Wienke (3 crews) and Nick Suess (4 crews) have kept the numbers ticking over.  Such is the glory that awaits the successful coach, that even Denys Warren has been coaxed out of retirement and into the coxswain's seat.  Unfortunately his boy Wes Ridge could not be enticed to follow in his manager's footsteps and has declined a guest coaching spot.  Wes offered a combination excuse of having a pissy weekend down south on the same date as the regatta and also having a heart the size of a frozen pea !   Still, his spot is being ably filled by Patrick (i can't row this weekend, i've got a christening/wedding) Catina who's making a comeback to the club after 10 years in the rowing wilderness.  Onya Pat.

If you don't yet have a crew and you don't wont to spend the rest of your rowing career suffering pangs of guilt every time your row in a boat that's been paid for by this regatta, get on the phone to Dave on 0411 161104 and offer your coaching services pronto.  It literally is never too late.  Failing that, please keep Sunday the 11th of March free as we'll need helpers from 8am 'til 5pm to run the event.

While i'm at it, thanks to Steve Bourne and Glyn for finishing the outstanding work on the Warrigal and Bayswater and getting  these boats back on the water and ready for training.  We should also be picking up a new (well, secondhand) four on the weekend which will make 5 boats available for training.  Also, boat booking boards have been drawn up by John T and Chris and have been posted on the pinup board.  Please use them and avoid missing out on a boat come training time. 

 

There's plenty of crews already out on the water, getting an early start to their training for the Challenge Cup (otherwise known as the Pub and Club regatta).  So far there's been a fair response as far as entries are concerned and with a month to go 'til the regatta, we're hoping to be looking at thirty five crews entered on race day.  Well done to Chris who's picked up six crews and John T and Grace who have another four.  If you don't have a crew yet, please try and recruit one from your friends or workmates and get involved.  Chances are you've rowed in a boat paid for by this regatta and the more we can make, the better boats we'll have.  With all that said, it's a great day as well.

In other news, SGIO Insurance will be providing some sponsorship dollars to assist with the purchase of the prizes for this years winners.  We're going a bit upmarket, with each member and coach of the winning crew receiving a pewter tankard as their trophy.  They look great and they're worth training for and if you want one as the coach of a winning crew, you'd better get them together and on the water now !

 

Following John's timely reminder and prompt on the message board, a BIG thankyou to all those who have put in the hard yards to keep the club progressing over the last few months.  In particular, thanks to the following members:

John Thomczak, who has run three of the last four sculling courses and has also taken on a co-ordination/coaching role for two groups of new members - a group of five recreational members and in conjunction with Laurie, a group of seven schoolgirls.  Also John was one of the few regular attendees at the club maintenance sessions in December and has since assisted in varnishing the saxboard of the blue quad and helping with the gym improvements.

Steve Wienke, who has undertaken the unenviable task of painting oars, only to find as soon as he has finished a batch, we have purchased more. He has still not had the opportunity to paint the set he wanted to paint originally, despite painting club colours over what is now over 30 blades !!

Pam Seymour, who has tirelessly worked on co-ordination of the annual dinner, Sunday breakfasts and investigating council requirements for the upgrade of the bar/kitchen area.  Pam cleaned the area and layed countless carpet tiles, as well as assisting with varnishing during boat maintenance.

Siok Cheng, who has worked behind the scenes to ensure the clubrooms are stocked with breakfast supplies for the Sunday morning sessions, as well as single handedly removing most of the rubble from the gym refurbishment, bucket by bucket, on each trip to the Rowing Club.  I am sure there is an old chinese proverb there somewhere.  This is in addition to his regular duties of keeping track of the bankings and making sure people are reimbursed for costs incurred on behalf of the club.

Peter Zappa, who has shown amazing dexterity in the use of all variety of power tools, ranging from jackhammers to remove the footings of walls demolished in the gym refurbishment, to deftly zipping off rusted low grade stainless bolts using an angle grinder inside a honeycomb shell (not for the faint hearted !!)

Steve Bourne, who has taken on the task of refurbishing the Rogers (thanks to Tim and Nigel Thomas for arranging and machining up replacement pins), following on from multiskilling as a carpet layer in the gym refurbishment (thanks Amanda for the carpet). 

Glyn Heath, who has co-ordinated the gym refurbishment and carpet laying, patched the hole in the City of Bayswater, refurbished both the blue and yellow quads, repaired the stern of the white coxed quad and restored some structural stability (if not yet water worthiness) of the damaged eight.

Thanks also to those who have been regularly assisting in running Sunday breakfasts, which provide a great social atmosphere at the club and also to those taking on coaching duties, which has allowed more members than ever to use the facilities.  Well done everyone who's pitched in and got the club through its traditional off season quiet period.

 

Two junior women's doubles from the TIP squad faced up to a 5k time trial on Australia Day down at the Canning course.  It was an early start considering they were due on the start line at 6am, which meant boating at around 5:20, which meant towing boat trailers down to Canning not long after 4am.  All up, a very early start for Glyn and the group.  

Claire and Sarah were the faster of the two doubles, but still finished 27 secs behind their rivals from Swans, with Catalina and Jess a further 45 secs back.  Not a bad performance for their first time on the Canning course, but both crews were sure they could do a little better.

Getting onto time trials of slightly less stature, the Sunday morning handicap race from Guildford is back on in earnest.  Glyn continues to give himself ridiculously soft handicaps and reap the rewards over the rest of the field !  Chris and Charmaine went off go, with Chris having a 'golden' run until he was ruthlessly cut down by the green spitty just above Ascot (fortunately no damage and he stayed dry).  Charmaine did well to hold off the field 'til almost Tonkin Bridge given her harsh handicap.  She'll get 1m 30s on the field this week.

The two doubles (Jess/Catalina & Claire/Sarah) going off 30sec and 1min respectively, finished together but were rowed down by Steve (also off 1 min).  Nice job of sandbagging Mr Bourne, 1m 15s for you this week !  Brett off 1m 30s left a trial of fire down the course and was only just hauled in by the old bloke himself after starting 45 secs further back.

All welcome, every Sunday at 7am.

 

Training sessions for the Challenge Cup can commence from Sunday the 4th Feb' onwards.  This is after Hale have vacated the second bay and everything should be (relatively) back to normal.  The boats available for training are the Cooper, Carlin, Bayswater and Warrigal.  Please do not use the Blue Vein, as this is currently being used by racing crews.  The boats will be looked at Sunday and any repairs attended to before the training demand gets too heavy.  Please report any damage to these boats ASAP to Dave.  Do not put a broken boat back on the rack and tell no one !

Please try and restrict training sessions to 2 hours total, so we can run sessions from 7am til 9am and 9 til 11 on the weekends.  Thankyouuuuuu.

 

Well, they're in the shed actually.  Hale school will be conducting a rowing camp out of our second bay from Saturday the 27th Jan' until the following Sat' (3rd Feb').  During this time, the second bay will be full of Hale equipment and the club will be operating out of the first bay.

Please be careful when moving boats on and off racks as it's going to be very tight in both bays for the week.

 

Keep an eye out in your favourite quality reading material (New Idea, Woman's Day, etc...) and you might see a familiar rower flexing his biceps for the camera.  Fresh from his promo shots for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Glyn was accosted by a professional photographer looking for an early morning shot of a sculler for an ad campaign (sun creeping over the hills, all that stuff).

Never one to miss an opportunity, Glyn quickly jumped in his scull while the original star to be Simon was warming up in the gym and hit the water.  Unfortunately, Glyn neglected to ask what exactly the ad' campaign was for so let's hope it's not something too embarrassing (not !).  All this follows on from the previous week when someone allegedly thought the picture of Steve Redgrave up on the notice board was actually Glyn.  This highly outrageous rumour has yet to be confirmed !!!

 

Have a look in the list of upcoming events at the top of this page and you'll see there's a heap of stuff coming up.  The club desperately needs as many club members as possible to help out and take the strain off the usual half dozen (ie: the somebody elses) that make everything happen and allow the club to run as smoothly as it does.

Nobody's that busy that they can't pitch in for at least one or two events every year and lend a hand on the day.  We're talking about 15 hours a year which, you've got to say, shouldn't be too difficult.  Pick an event that you can help at and get in touch with Glyn and let him know you can help out.

 

After putting in the long hours of training and performing well on the water, but having a pretty disappointing outcome all round with the TIP selection trials, Gino has decided to focus on his other sporting commitments (even Glyn couldn't persuade him to stay) and say goodbye to rowing.  Well Gino, once you've had enough of chasing that round, white thing around the grass, you know where the scull rack will still be !  Good luck.  

 

Next on the list of equipment making it's way into our rapidly filling boatshed, are a secondhand eight and coxed four.  Both are in the novice/recreational category and they should be in the shed in about four weeks. 

 

The club will be getting some more new equipment shortly in the shape of a Concept 2 Ergo and 3 pairs of Croker sculling race blades.  The blades are ex' Stuart Reside and Amber Bradley, so if you're using them and you aint going fast, it's not the blades !

The ergo is in Melbourne at the moment and will be picked up and shipped across for us by ex' captain Al Hayes, who's currently on a mission to turn Victoria into a Solahart republic (they get sun there ?).  Speaking of Al' and new additions, he tells us that Jenny (alias JW) is pregnant and they'll be expecting their first (non four legged) kid in June.  Congrat's Al and Jenny.  

 

Yes, it's back again and we definitely need your help to recruit and coach crews.  This is the clubs biggest fundraiser and without club member's help, we can look forward to rowing in lesser quality boats with lesser quality blades etc etc...

The regatta will be held on the 11th of March and i'll be updating the website shortly with a full page on all the details of how crews can enter, what has to be done and how everyone can help.  In the meantime, you can download the Information Sheet and Entry Form which should give you enough information to get started with.

Start recruiting those friends, family and workmates and sign them up for a crew.  This has always been huge fun on the day so get involved.  

 

(1)  The club is in the process of purchasing seven pairs of secondhand Croker carbon fibre macon sculling blades. These, along with the eight pairs of Croker S4 cleavers and the four pairs of Bracca cleavers, will fill the gap between the aluminium composites and the racing blades. As the number of blades available for non-racing crews increases, the racing blades will have greater restriction of use put on them. The racing blades are showing considerable signs of wear and need to preserved for those who will be competing. The racking system will also be changed to move the racing blades to a separate part of the shed.

(2) Commiserations to those of the TID group who missed out on selection into WAIS junior B squads. None of the ANA TID people were accepted and only one from Swans was picked. Whilst four of the ANA girls had a faster on water performance in the singles, Natalie Bale from Swans scored 8 sec faster over 4 km and 1 sec faster over 500 m on the ergo. The results have certainly fired up the ANA coaches who believe Claire Martin, Megan Willis and Gino Di Franco in particular should have got a little more recognition. The girls have also got the bit between their teeth and will be aiming to show they have got what it takes at the pre-nationals on-water and ergo trials. Gino meanwhile is devastated after dominating subjunior and novice sculling events during the 2000 season and progressing to maiden where he came a credible third in the maiden double sculls championship after only eight months rowing and age 14. Glyn is working hard to keep him interested in the sport and focus his energy to get even.

January 27, 5km Time Trial on Canning River
February 1, 4km ergo test
March 22, 2km ergo test

(3) Globetrotting Captain Simon Cook has returned safe and sound from the wilds of Columbia.  Welcome back Simon !

 

Due to a prior booking of Tranby House, the date for the AGM and Annual Dinner has been pushed back one week to the 17th of February.  Click here for a look at the menu and more details of the night.

Tranby House is a great location and this will be a top night.  Please make it along for both the AGM and the dinner.

 

And so they did to have a beer with our esteemed ex' captain Mr Ward.  About a dozen of the club's more infamous past and present members gathered to have a beer with Liam and increase the bar fridge profits by about 300%.  In a tribute to the days of Liam's captaincy, the beer fridge was drunk dry (well, of real beer anyway), there was copious amounts sledging and piss taking (from which Golden emerged totally unscathed i might add) and even Brett's Pizza was called upon for a late night mercy dash.

Next time Liam, i promise we'll have at least another 3 cartons of Tooheys Old on hand to make sure we don't run out !

 

Yes, ex' captain and beer fridge patron Liam Ward is back in town for a brief visit.  He'll be down at the clubrooms on Sunday 7th Jan for a few quiet ales at 5pm for anyone who would like to catch up.

 

Check out the 'year that was' on the Year 2000 news archive.

 

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