Curlew is one of the few rowing clubs in East London and is open to all ages and abilities. Although very successful, with crews at Henley for the last 10 years, we pride ourselves on our friendly and welcoming atmosphere.
Our star double - Elizabeth and Emma - proudly represented Curlew in the Rosie Mayglothling Trophy (Senior 2x) at HWR this year. Unfortunately they were cursed by the draw: not only were they the only Senior double race on Friday (despite having beaten several of the crews who were automatically through to the Saturday), but they were unlucky enough to be racing against the highly-fancied MAA.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth and Emma raced brilliantly and broke the course record - but were beaten by Mortlake who went on to be the eventual losing finalists (per the results on HWR). As a comfort - not only did they break the course record, but they were the only crew not to be beaten “easily” by MAA, and they recorded a time which was fast enough to get them through several rounds against any other opposition.
Huge commiserations to our double, but they'll be back faster and stronger for the Nat Champs!
The Men’s 1st VIII will be racing in the Qualifying races at 6:40pm on Friday 26th June in order to go through to race on Wednesday in the first round of the Thames Challenge Cup. Wish us luck!
Finally (mea culpa & co.) I’ve got round to putting some photos up on the website. To see them, either click here or use the link in the menu on the left of any page.
More photos will be going up very soon as I’ve streamlined the process so it’s now very quick to go from me receiving the photos to them being on the site. Thanks to Alex for taking some great snaps at Poplar Regatta (and for being patient while I uploaded them)!