Linsey SmithEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire rural affairs correspondent Seas the Day Miriam Payne on the Pacific Ocean with a crop of salad greens, grown on board her rowing boat How do you grow food on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? It’s a question Miriam Payne …
Read More »Ex-rugby player from Henley takes on Atlantic rowing challenge
Katie WapleSouth of England BBC Former England Sevens rugby player Ollie Phillips will be rowing across the Atlantic Ocean with no support. A former England rugby sevens player is taking on a 3,000 nautical mile (4,828 km) rowing challenge for several charities supporting Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Ollie Phillips, from …
Read More »Military veterans sought for new coastal rowing club in Minehead
Sandra Murison Sandra Murison (far left) wants to create a “sister club” to EPIC in Somerset A military wife is looking for people connected to the armed forces to become the first members of a new amateur rowing club. Sandra Murison, 77, from Porlock, Somerset, is setting up the group …
Read More »Tom Hanks’ Cast Away spurs on Atlantic rower in £40k charity trip
Oliver Rathbone/George Attfield Olly Rathbone said he had watched Cast Away about seven times A rower crossing the Atlantic for charity with a university friend has turned to Tom Hanks’ Cast Away for tips. Olly Rathbone and George Attfield, who met at Nottingham Trent University playing rugby, have been training …
Read More »Saving one of Oxford’s last rowing barges from the history books
The Corpus Christi College Barge is still afloat after nearly 100 years A look upstream from Donnington Bridge reveals more than just a scenic view of the River Thames. Moored at Meadow Lane is one of the last remaining jewels of Oxford’s golden rowing era, the Corpus Christi barge. It …
Read More »Henley’s River and Rowing Museum building up for sale for £3m
Katie WapleSouth of England CBRE The former River & Rowing Museum in Henley is for sale An award-winning museum building which was closed in September due to financial pressures is on sale for £3 million. The River and Rowing Museum in Henley, Oxfordshire was listed by commercial real estate services …
Read More »Bullying and racism at Oxford Brookes’ rowing club confirmed by report
Clodagh StensonBBC South Investigations Getty Images Oxford Brookes’ women’s team prepare to race in 2017 – the club is one of eight High Performance Academies that develop Olympic rowers Sexual harassment, racism and bullying did happen at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club, an independent investigation has confirmed. The report was …
Read More »British Rowing permitted to revamp Caversham training base
A project to revamp a facility used by the country’s elite rowers has been approved. British Rowing submitted the plan to “improve and modernise” the Sherriff’s Boathouse at the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake in Caversham and build a new boathouse on the site in the summer. The plan for the …
Read More »French racing yacht towed to St Malo after Guernsey rescue
Mr Way said it had been a “complex operation carried out safely and efficiently thanks to the skill and cooperation of everyone involved”. “From the initial coastguard response through to the refloating and righting of the trimaran, the teamwork, professionalism and seamanship has been exemplary,” he said. “I’m pleased that …
Read More »Natacha Searson: Jersey rower targets 2028 Olympic beach sprint place
Coastal rower Natacha Searson is targeting a place at the 2028 Olympic Games. The 22-year-old from Jersey has been called up to the Great Britain coastal rowing team for the World Beach Sprint Finals in Turkey next week. Beach sprint rowing will make its Olympic debut in Los Angeles in …
Read More »How two British women rowed from Peru to Australia
Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne told the BBC how they made the six-month journey unsupported, catching fish and growing their own vegetables. BBC News
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Read More »Suffolk junior sailors go separate ways after World Champs medal
Tom WilliamsBBC Look East, in Waldringfield JOHN FAIRHALL/BBC National champions – Alex Enkel (left) at the helm and his crew Jude Baldock assess conditions on the River Deben Two young sailors now have new goals and are going their separate ways after becoming under-18 national champions at the Cadet UK …
Read More »Rowing World Championships: Great Britain win two golds
“We came here thinking we could do it, but we wanted to focus on progressing through the regatta and to get better each time we hit the water,” Robson said after the race. “We had a great row in that final. It was quite a battle and we’re just really …
Read More »World Rowing Championships: Fermanagh’s Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney reach final
County Fermanagh duo Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney produced a storming last 500m to move from fifth to third and clinch a place in Thursday’s final of the World Championships men’s pair in Shanghai. The Olympic finalists from Paris looked out of contention before an incredible sprint to the line …
Read More »Benjamin Pritchard aims to complete gold medal set at World Rowing Championships
With Paris 2024 already behind him, thoughts inevitably turn to the Los Angeles Paralympics in 2028. “It’s still the million dollar question,” said Pritchard. “Let’s get Shanghai out of the way and then have a proper discussion with British Rowing.” This year has seen a different approach for the Welshman, …
Read More »Uncertainty over artefacts as Henley museum closes
The future of 35,000 artefacts remains uncertain, with the museum they are currently housed in opening its doors to the public for a final time on Sunday. The River and Rowing Museum in Henley on-Thames, Oxfordshire, which first opened in 1998, announced in July it would be shutting due to …
Read More »Philip Doyle: NHS rejection leads Philip Doyle back to World Championships
While Doyle was deciding on his immediate future, McCarthy and Belfast’s Konan Pazzaia were racing and winning bronze together at the European Championships. However, for the World Championships everyone, Olympic medallist or not, had to trial for the seats in the top Irish boat. “I think the reason I’m back …
Read More »Hannah Scott: Olympic champion wants world title after ‘struggling to get out of bed’ with health issue
Scott added: “It attacks my immune system and my nervous system and I can’t pump blood around my body. It took us a while to figure out what was wrong with me, I had to go to numerous doctors and found one that said ‘you’ve got PoTS’. “From that, I …
Read More »Ed Fuller: Para-rower focused on retaining Great Britain’s world title
Paralympic champion Ed Fuller says he is relishing the challenge of defending the world PR3 mixed coxed fours world title. The 22-year-old from Exeter was part of the Team GB crew who retained their Paralympic title in Paris last year and won gold at the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, …
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