The youth and junior section of Christchurch Rowing Club showed that the future is bright for the club after a successful weekend at the 59th South Coast Rowing Championships and Open Regatta, climax of the season for the 30 competing clubs of the Coast ARA, Hants and Dorset ARA and West of England ARA held on Wimbleball Lake reservoir in Somerset. In the Men’s Open Senior C Coxed 4 event the A crew of Sean Cooney, Marcus Lewis, Isaac Gaston, Jack Gaston (str) and Katya Cher

The Men’s Junior C Crew of Sean Cooney, Marcus Lewis, Isaac Gaston, Jack Gaston and Katya Cherskova raced at the Port of Bideford Regatta on Saturday as part of their preparation for the Open events at next week’s South Coast Championships. With only a dozen or so outings in a river boat since they started rowing it was a leap into the unknown for them with entries at Men’s Senior C (the local equivalent of Men’s Junior) and J18. Senior C was always going to be the toughest t

On Friday 4th September a new Double Boat was launched at Christchurch Rowing Club, thanks to the generosity of the Clingan Trust Charity. The boat was named in honour of Gurth Brooke, who sadly passed away last year bequeathing a significant amount of his Estate to the Charity. The trusts secretary David Richardson presented a cheque for £2000.00 to Mark Sims, Christchurch Rowing club Chairman. Brian Woodifield, past Chairman of the Trust commented that Gurth was a very kee