Year: 2024

The second club quiz of the year, in Crowmarsh Village Hall, with wacky rounds and entertaining questions, superbly organised by Jules Woodall and team. Many thanks to Waitrose, Lidl and Tesco for providing the food, and to all donors of raffle and auction prizes – very much appreciated. As befits the family focus the team…

We took a small group of Seniors and Masters to this Head, mercifully taking place thanks to the lack of recent rain. We had very encouraging early season wins from our men’s O 4- of Nick, Lucas, Damen and Alex, with Nick and Alex then combining to win O 2- in the afternoon division. There…

On Sunday 27th October the club decamped to Gloucester where we raced in their Autumn Head for the first time, on a gloriously sunny, warm and mercifully flood-free canal. We enjoyed 12 wins, ranging from our super-quick WMasF 4x of Jenny, Rachel, Julia and Alice to our youngest J15 2x of Atti and Jasper. Many thanks…

The club ended its most successful year ever with 8 wins at Oxford Royal. It’s the only regatta we go to upstream of us on the Thames, and pretty much the closest too – though Henley and Reading might hold this claim. The racing was ferocious on a notoriously difficult course to steer, with our…

This regatta, another of our summer favourites, saw a number of firsts. Our Learn to Row graduates won the Explorer Mixed 4x+ category, winning three races en route, their first ever competition, and with just one man on board to boot (instead of the usual two.) These 50 year olds were bouncing with excitement after…

The club paid its annual visit to one of our favourite regattas and came away with 6 wins. The best story of the day was our winning J14 2x featuring Atticus who had only rowed for 4 weeks – a great achievement – and they were using a boat called Roger Brown. Guess who was…

Wallingford won both the Junior and the overall Victor Ludorum at this weekend’s British Rowing Championships, the first time in the club’s history, and a reflection of the amazing progress under Directors of Junior Rowing Katie Greves and Andy Green. Our Juniors won no fewer than 6 medals including gold in WJ18 8+ and WJ16…

Five of our WJ16s were selected for the WJ16 4+ at this year’s GB-France match, their first taste of an international regatta, and the first GB vests at the club for a number of years. The match took place at a new venue, Lery-Poses en Normandie, where there was some excellent tight racing and verdicts…

At the recent Henley Masters Regatta we had no fewer than 6 wins, including Sean in his MasJ 1x. He is seen here holding the certificate he was also given for racing in the year of his 80th birthday! An incredible achievement, one we would all like to emulate. There were also wins for our Treasurer…

The 4+ from Wallingford Schools BC (formerly a separate club rowing out of Wallingford RC, now disbanded) who won the Britannia Challenge Cup in 1974 successfully carried out their 50th anniversary row-past at the Sunday lunch interval at Henley Royal Regatta this weekend. They proudly wore the bright yellow and blue kit not seen on…