It’s finally upon us. The event the whole of the winter season has been building up towards. A total of 36 championship quads from a whole array of different clubs will line up on the Tideway and prepare to take on the 6.8km winding stretch of river. It’s the most important race of the season […]
With a large number of championship eights schools entered in this event, these crews will be looking to see how they can perform in the first big boats race of the season. A number of other school clubs, such as Shiplake College Boat Club and Royal Shrewsbury School Boat Club have opted to race in Open 8s in the […]
After Leander’s top performance at Fours Head last weekend, with both their top and second junior quads taking the top two positions in the rankings, the clubs entered in this event will be looking to prove themselves and try and show that they have a chance at contesting with Leander this season. With Leander’s absence […]
On Saturday at 12pm, we will see a field of Junior boys quads racing down the 7km stretch of the Tideway from Chiswick to Putney, battling it out for the title of fastest J18 quad in the country, in the biggest race of the season so far. With the recent Pairs Head having particularly gruelling […]
The biggest race of the head season is finally upon us. In one week, 356 crews will be lining up at Chiswick Bridge, preparing to give it everything down the brutal 7.5km stretch of the tideway. Most of these crews are British, although there are some European clubs entered. However all entered crews have one thing […]
As the head season quickly progresses and the School’s Head approaches in exactly 40 days, the attention this weekend turns upstream to the 2015 Hampton Head. First of all, hats off to Hampton School for organising what is set to be a fantastic head, especially in the J18 VIIIs category. Hampton have had some bad […]
A huge 24 boat entry to this event although I have a few favourites in mind. The preview… Headington School Oxford A After their performance at the Scullery, where they won the WJ184X by 21 seconds and recorded the second fastest women’s time of the day, they have to go into this event as favourites. […]