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September 2011

Coastal RowingExpanding our BoundariesSurfers ChallengeNelson Mandela Bay Surfski Classic

Upcoming EventsPosters inside

Indoor RowingA Growth Spurt

International Regatta Results

SA UniversitiesBoat Race 2011

News from the clubs

On the cover:Da ve Ha rtwa n g e r p u ts Se a b iscu it t h ro u g h t is p a c e s i n g o o d s e a conditions.

EDITOR'S THOUGHTSA Perfect Photo to symbolise the start of a new Magazine. Hopefully the first edition is as good as envisaged and enjoyed by a wide spectrum of readers from both within and looking into the rowing world. We aim to deliver a Quarterly Magazine with Club News, Regatta Results, Regatta Posters and other articles of general rowing interest.

The friendships made rowing endure a lifetime whether made at 12 or 60 years old. Hours spent training to hone your skills and body for that next victory are never wasted and while the race is short the lessons learned are sound.

A friend once told me: "The Older I get the Better I Was". I couldn't agree with him more. When reminiscing about "the good old days" we tend to remember the good races and tend to ignore or forget the bad ones or the less competitive ones.

Enjoy the magazine!! Mark Lindstrom

Editor:Mark Lindstrom mark@lindstrom.co.zaContributorsDavid Hartwanger, Mark Lindstrom, Tony Paladin, Coreen Walstra, Rolo Noge, Charley Lewis, Wade Murison, Marlene Potgieter

One of the greatest mysteries in Olympic history was the identity of a French boy who helped win a gold medal in the pair-oared-shell-with-coxswain rowing race at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

The Dutch team of Francois Brandt and Roelof Klein decided that their coxswain, Hermanus Brockmann, was too heavy and was slowing their boat down. Their solution was to ask a young French boy to serve as their coxswain. Despite the inexperienced coxswain, the team from Amsterdam won the gold medal.

It was estimated that the boy was around ten years old and weighed approximately 70 pounds. His identity may forever remain a mystery. After the race, the youth disappeared before anyone learned his name.

Olympic Mystery

The Olympic single sculls Grand Final start was at 3:30 PM and Kelly’s competition was the famous Jack Beresford, Jr., winner of the Diamond Sculls at Henley. Kelly won finishing the race at 3:37:35 PM and then climbed quickly into the double-sculls and shot back to the starting line for his 4:30 PM Olympic double-sculls Grand Final. Kelly and Costello defeated both France and Italy finishing the race at 4:37:02 PM to win a second Olympic gold medal in slightly less than an hour.

In 1924 Kelly and Costello repeated as Olympic Champions.

2 Olympic Golds in 1 HourJohn B. Kelly, Sr. arrived in Belgium for the 1920 Olympic Games as the USA sculler after having been denied entry into the restrictive Henley Royal Regatta and a chance to race three-time champion, Jack Beresford. Kelly was entered in two Olympic events: the single-sculls and the double-scul ls wi th h is cousin Paul Costello.

In the 1st day’s singles heat (start time 2:50 PM) Kelly defeated Swedish sculler, Ljunglof. Then at 4:30 PM he and Costello defeated Holland in the double. This was tight timing for back to back races of this magnitude, but Kelly topped it in the Grand Finals on August 29.

John B. Kelly Snr -1920

Australian, Henry Pearce, won the gold medal in the sing le scul ls rowing competition at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. He was so superior to his competition that he actually stopped to let a line of ducks pass in front of his boat and still won the race easily.

Make way for Ducklings

Orthodox rowing as we know it in many ways is fairly exclusive. Evidence of this is the fact that the vast majority of amateur rowers fall within a narrow age band of 13 to 25. If you are outside of this age window then you are on the fringes, and often regarded as a bit of a side-show. Contrast this to sports like: Road running, Cycling, Triathlons, Swimming, Golf that cover an age span from 8 to 80. The dilemma that most rowers face is that despite still loving the sport they chose to hang up the oars either after school, age 18, or after varsity, age 23. A small percentage join senior clubs and remain active for a few more years.

The irony is rowing is actually one of the best physiological exercises for older athletes or for anyone wanting to keep in shape or rehabilitate. In other parts of the world like Germany, France and the USA this is well known, and hence they are leaders in things like; the Masters World Championships, family based club structures, and learn how to row initiatives for all ages.

So what has this got to do with coastal rowing? Well, basically coastal rowing is simply an attempt at broadening the appeal of rowing to include a wider spectrum of rower. Many rowers who still love the sport, but don’t necessarily want to be gunning it up and down the river at 5:30 in the morning, and are quite happy to watch the Olympics on TV whether South Africa is competing or not. People fall in love with rowing, not because of how many medals they can win, but through a unique experience of finding perfection in teamwork, boats, water, movement. It’s certainly not something that one can easily button down, but most addicted rowers have felt it at some point!

The FISA definition of coastal rowing is fundamentally about a different class of boat. This is at the heart of it. The boat itself is about being as inclusive as possible, meaning: affordable, stable, easy to row, safe, fun. It certainly doesn’t have to be pencil thin for straight lines only. The Americans use the same

Coastal RowingExpanding our Boundaries

concept, but expressed in terms of ‘Open-Water’ rowing offering a wider scope of boat design and construction. The principals are the same though, and has given rise to a spectrum of fantastic events like the Coastal Rowing World Championships in Europe for club crews, or the Blackburn Challenge circumnavigation around Cape Ann in Massachusetts.

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The real beauty about coastal rowing is the potential to express yourself in the sport, whether it be long relaxing river cruises, tracking bird life, racing around the Durban harbour, or pounding through ocean surf. All the while benefitting from invigorating exercise that makes an hour in the gym seem like a death sentence. In fact in this part of the world it would be more appropriate to talk about Adventure Rowing rather than coastal rowing due to the varied nature one can enjoy it.

Dave Hartwanger

To find out more you can contact the following people in your area:

Western Cape: Derrick Read

Eastern Cape: Dave Hartwanger

Gauteng: Tim Hutton

February 2011 and the 31st Surfers was here. what started out as an idea in the Hellespont, Leander Rowing Club's Pub, was about to become a reailty. Three rowers were going to take on the Surfers Challenge for the first time.

Armed with a little too little knowledge of the sea and two boats made by Hartwanger Racing we joined the 100 odd paddlers for the start of the race at Yellow Sands. 19km of Ocean Rowing lay ahead. The gods were definately on our side as the potentially rough wild coast was as flat as the Buffalo River.

The start takes place of shore at the same time as the 1500 plus runners start their perilous beach run over rocka and boulders and soft beach sand.

The paddlers (and now the rowers) have to round Yellows Point and then head straight to Gonubie Point. Luckily I had been warned to take the point very wide as the waves can be quite treacherous.

The rowers kept well clear but many a paddler came tumbling down when the waves pitchpoled them over there sterns. Quite a sight to behold especially from a distance.

Dave Hartwanger is his single Seabiscuit got off to a good start and was able to keep a steady pace

with numerous paddlers following in his wake. They came up with a mutual agreement he would tow them if they guided him along.

The double of Jeff Jackson and Mark Lindstrom found the going a bit tougher and had taken on a bit of water when going through the waves. This and the lack of a rudder was causing difficulty in steering. Each swell that came past knocked us to stroke side and constant correction was needed.

An uneasy rhythm was maintained for most of the race but steady progress towards the finish lne was maintained.

Off Gonubie I spotted a fin over Jeff's shoulder and decided that as I new of his distrust and dislike of sharks I would keep quiet. However in my efforts to see the fin again I caused a lopsided boat which was quickly picked up by the ever awake Jackson who promptly enquired why we were unbalanced. My reply was short and sweet. Row harder on stroke side. That kept him quiet for a while.

Not 5 minutes later a fin breaked under Jackson's Stroke rigger. My heart did a year's beats in that 1 second and Jackson. He was quiet

Surfers Challenge 2011

A little further on Jeff asks me why the sound of the surf is getting so loud. My answer was the waves were picking up and the surf was abviously growing but I would try and see.

A quick glance over my shoulder and I spot 3 Sisters. A rock outcrop in the middle of the ocean which would surely wipe us out. Only 40 metres away. A quick course adjustment and a bit of hard rowing and we had navigated them succesfully. But that was definately a close shave.

After three sisters we are almost home and can see the tents on Nahoon Beach. All along the beach as far as you can see a long snake of runners and walkers in every imaginable colour makes its way along the beach.

Through the bouys and then to ride in on the surf. Something we had only practiced successfully once. A bit of sideways and bit of forward and a bit of backwards and we were back on terrafirma. A quick sprint (read walk) and we had our surfers t-shirts.

The first three rowers had completed the Surfers Challenge and far quicker than when I ran it in the past.

Well Done to the race orgainsers and thank you for letting us gate crash your party. It was great and a real challenge.

Lastly thank you to Clinton Kearney and Nerissa Lindstrom for seconding us and giving up your Surfers.

Mark Lindstrom

Official ResultsSingle

Dave Hartwanger1:40:44

DoubleJeff Jackson/Mark Lindstrom

2:02:28

Other Leander Rowing Club Members who ran/walked

Tamara Hartwanger 2:53:35

Lyndee Hartwanger 3:14:18

Nelson Mandela Bay Surfski Classic 2011David Hartwanger of Leander Rowing Club in East London recently became the first rower to compete in, and finish, the Nelson Mandela Bay Classic (Port Elizabeth), managing to outrace a number of surfski's in his costal single in the process!

On Good Friday Port Elizabeth launched the 2011 summer splash festival that consists of a host of events, competitions and entertainment. The festival runs for a week and focuses on all water activities and the PE beach front area. The surf-ski classic is one of the first events to get the festival underway. It consists of two laps of a 13km course around Algoa Bay, starting and finishing at Hobie Beach alongside Shark Pier. Up until now participation in the race had been exclusively by surf-ski’s singles and doubles. I thought I would join in using a coastal single to see how a rower may fare.

The race itself was nothing like a multilane sprint race us rowers are traditionally used to. First of all, you start standing on the beach behind a line drawn in the sand, holding your boat. When the hooter goes it’s a Le Mans like sprint to the water, jump in your boat, and paddle off. Of course you can imagine carrying a rowing boat! oars flailing all over the show! I felt a bit like a seal clumsily waddling towards to the water. In contrast a surf-ski weighs about 12kg, no riggers or long oars sticking out, and no sliding seat to negotiate when you jump in.

So now I’m on the water, bringing up the rear properly. The second half of the start is to punch through the surf. Fortunately the weather was ideal; a gentle swell produced no real breakers to speak of. I had visions of speedily accelerating away from the crowd looking on and scything through the field of surf-ski’s. Obviously I made a complete hash of it. After my first few strokes I realised my stroke side gate was the wrong way round – a real rookie error if ever there was one. By now I’m halfway through the surf suddenly getting pounded by waves I hadn’t seen all morning. I had no option, but to jump overboard, fix the gate and clamber back in. By that time the field of surf-ski’s were long gone.

Once out and on my way I settled down to a fairly solitary row, although I was determined to catch up to the stragglers from the pack of singles ahead of me. The doubles started 10 minutes later, so ended up being hot on my heels. The first leg of the course was a few hundred metres along the shore, before rounding a buoy and heading straight out into the bay for about a kilometre.

From there it was a 6km stretch crossing the bay to the notorious boiler, a huge block of steel protruding above the surf. Fortunately on this day the boiler was fairly placid. Rounding the buoy was easy, and the boat was running well over the 5km stretch back to the start/finish zone.

By now I had passed a few single ski’s, most of the doubles had passed me, but there were still a few behind me. My confidence was good as I knew exactly what to expect on the second lap. Sadly, I was mistaken. The first turning buoy near the shore had been washed in and was now sitting right in the surf. I didn’t want to risk being disqualified for cutting the corner so decided to try and round the buoy. Inevitably, halfway round broadside to the waves, I was pounded. I was tossed from the boat, but managed to prevent any equipment damage. I ended up standing in knee deep water wondering if I should keep going or not. Hot on my heels were a double and two singles that were given the same treatment. I suddenly didn’t feel too bad, so jumped back in and headed out.

Other than the hiccup at the first turn the second lap went well. The field had become more spread out so it started feeling a bit solitary. However, the wild life was incredible, in particular the dolphin that seemed to keep me company throughout the final 5 km. It was a great feeling approaching the finish zone. I managed to time my approach to surf a little breaker right up to the beach. At least I managed to finish better than I had started. I completed the race in 2 hours 41 minutes, which was about 20 minutes slower than I had hoped, but I didn’t come last and claimed the distinction of being the first rower to finish the Nelson Mandela Bay Classic. Being part of the event was fantastic, soaking up the vibe, and enjoying the thrill of a completely new kind of race. I can’t wait for the 2012 edition.

Dave Hartwanger

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Indoor rowing is taking off across the country as an individual sport, as well as continuing to be a training aid for water-based rowing and other sports. Indoor rowing has its own competitions and events. It is easily accessible with machines now seen in gyms, sports centres and rowing clubs across the country.

South Africa is catching onto the international phenomenon of Indoor Rowing with various centres hosting Indoor Regattas as an alternative to our traditional regattas.

Software programmes like Rowpro have opened up a competitive world for Ergo Lovers, they do exist, to race online against others from across the globe. It is not uncommon to see a field from Great Britain, USA, Canada, Germany, Belgium and through the odd South African into the mix.

Sessions are easily accessible and range in distance from 500m up to the full marathon and beyond, with regular indoor rowers appearing daily on the lists.

Concept2 provide regular motivational events via there online logbook to keep rowers motivated and to no doubt ensure their product stays top of mind in all indoor rowers. Their Ergo is after all regarded as the international standard and has been used by Olympic Rowers and Part-Timers alike. A Model D with PM3 monitors retails for around R10,000. Another interesting trend in Online Indoor Rowing is the formation of Indoor Rowing Clubs. A large number have started to pop up. In South Africa we have Team Shosholoza a group of 15 rowers including past Olympians and National Crew Members. Headed by Mark Burgess who by end of August had completed over 1,000,000 metres since 1 May 201, That is 250km per month on a Concept2 ergo.

Regular competitions are held via a website www.c2ctc.com. This website has a different challenge every month and Indoor Rowing Clubs compete in boats of 5 to win honours and points. Each boat consists of the best 5 rowers from the club and must include 1 lightweight man and one lady. In the August 2011 Challenge of 10,549m, 288 rowers completed the challenge in 46 complete boats.

1 October 2011 will see the hosting of the Inaugural South African Indoor Rowing Championships in East London. Catergories catered for include the whole spectrum of 2000m races and for seniors a Half-Marathon (21,097m) event as well. Take a look at the website at www.saergo.co.za. The organisers have run 5 events already so this promises to be a great event. The venue is the Orient Theatre which is on the beach front. Great for spectator viewing as they regulalry host boxing events in the theatre. An added bonus is that it is at sea-level so records will be set and be hard to break.

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Wrist Tendonopathy is caused primarily by incorrect wrist and grip position during the drive and by weak wrists. Other causes would be Handbagging the finish and incorrect shoulder biomechanics.

Again technique is important and the need for adequate forearm s trength needs to be emphasized. Correction should also be made to avoid shoulder instability so as to improve the overall shoulder biomechanics.

Upper Back Pain

Upper back pain is characterised by pain and tenderness in the muscles of the shoulder, neck and upper back.

Causes include shoulder instability, over-reaching at the catch and rounding the back at the finish of the stroke.

To eliminate these causes shoulder stabilisation exercises should be introduced to the training program, and the rower should also work on improving their core stability. Again technique in the boat or on the indoor rower plays a role in reduction of upper back pain.

Knee Pain

Knee pains would include anterior knee pain and patella maltracking as a result of muscle imbalance and poor biomechanics.

Rowing Injuries can vary greatly and affect many different parts of the body. Various factors contribute to rowing injuries. The most common causes are poor technique amongst rowers and incorrect boat settings which can lead to chronic Orthopaedic injury.

Lower Back Pain

Injuries to the intervertebral discs, facet joints and muscle strains are causes of lower back pain. Common causes are slumping at the finish, driving with your back from the catch, rowing with a bent back, over reaching at the catch, tightness in the hamstrings, hip flexors and lower back and general incorrect posture.

To prevent lower back pain a rower should be coached in proper technique. Using a structured training program will also help prevent lower back pain.

Wrist Tendonopathy

Characterised by pain. swelling and weakness in the wrists, usually over the back surface.

COMMON ROWING INJURIES

A common ailment in rowers, knee pain, can be attributed to one of an imbalance in the quadriceps, a tightness in the rowers calves, a hamstring weakness, knees lifting, a rotation in the drive phase and pelvic instability.

A correction to the rowing biomechanics and the general conditioning of the rower will go a long way to eliminating knee pain. The rower should also work on improving both core and pelvic stability through additions to the training program.

Rib Injuries

A common complaint in elite rowers is an injury to the ribs caused by overloading the intercostal muscles which in turn causes a stress fracture to the ribs.

This is an overuse injury and is aggravated by poor core strength.

To reduce the likelihood of rib injuries the rower should follow a structured program with adequate rec ov ery . The rower s hould add c ore strengthening exercises to their program.

Once an injury has occurred the rower will need to undertake mobilisation exercises aimed at restoring the normal mobility to joints and muscles. As with all exercises mobilisation exercises need to be done in a stable posture and at a slow controlled speed.

Tony has a special interest in knee and lower l imb rehabi l i tat i on. H i s passions are rehabilitating ACL recons and total / partial knee replacements from the 6 week to 6 month phase. His other passion is rowing, he is currently part of the South Africa squad training for the Olympic Games and enjoys assisting young rowers in improving their erg times & performance. Tony has recently been appointed as the cha i rman o f the Gauteng B i ok i ne t i c Association.

For more information contact Tony on tonypaladin@kinetics.co.za082 921 6776

Tony Paladin

Next year February the Buffalo Regatta reaches the incredible milestone of the 125th staging of the event, first held in 1879 on the Buffalo River. Now, that’s a lot of history, more than most other sporting events. Even the J&B Met at Kenilworth was raced for the first time a few years later in 1883, and the oldest mass participation event in Cape Town only dates back to 1903. Somehow the rowers back then were ahead of the game and today we stand on their shoulders.

Clear ly hav ing fun and entertainment was a big part of the event back then. Although for the rowers taking part in the prestigious ev ents it was s er ious business. The weight of expectation on local crews sometimes became too m u c h . I n 1 8 8 2 t h e newspaper published the following view for the benefit of East London’s entry into the Grand Challenge that lost that year: “In training their work was eminently unsatisfactory, a fact that s e e m e d a l l - t h e m o r e inexplicable as their club was believed to combine a

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champion crew. We cordially congratulate the club on the agreeable manner in which it has disappointed public expectation, and we take this opportunity of reminding them that the public expect them to come forward with a better guarantee of winning the laurel next year.” I think we are still waiting for the club to provide a better guarantee of winning!

The Buffalo Regatta with the Selborne Sprints sandwiched in the middle make for a festival of rowing that lives up to the entertainment and thrills that was envisaged back in 1879. Enjoying the drama of competition is what it is all about. The regatta has seen it all, but hopefully 2012 will be one to remember. Amongst other things, once-off commemorative gold medals are being minted for the regatta. The ambitions for the future are high, but there is an equal measure of confidence that the event will meet expectations. Train hard, have fun, and we’ll see you at the races.

Dave Hartwanger

Preparations for next year ’s event have been underway for months already, with the intention of making it an ex tra-spec ial occas ion!weather permitting of course. A few years back when first thoughts were tabled regarding the 125th anniversary my wife Lyndee was tasked with scouring the archives to learn more about the history o f t h e r e g a t t a , particularly in the early years. Turns out The Daily Dispatch, our local newspaper, held a treasure trove of publications dating back to the first event. T he r ead ing w as highly entertaining. I most

enjoyed the description of events that included ‘Walking the greasy pole’ and ‘Seahorse race’, a seahorse being a wooden barrel with a horse’s head constructed by Mr Elliot of Harbour Works. According to the Daily Dispatch: “we understand that on some preliminary trials being made by those who had entered, they found the aquatic steeds quite unmanageable, and gave up the idea of the race accordingly”.

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Jack Dixon's 90th Birthday

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Honorary Life President and Multiple Grand Winner Jack Dixon turned 90 on 29 June 2011. To honour him the club ahd a July Fever Party at the club house with a horse racing theme. A good turnout saw us celebrate with Jack in style. Everybody dressed for a day at the races. The best dressed couple prize went to Cecil Godfrey. Dressed as a jockey in such a tight shirt it looked like 2 of them were in there.

A tote on the July was organised and many a punters money was added to the coffers of the Leander Rowing Club. Well Done Jack on 90 years and we look forward to celebrating many more with you.

Leander Rowing ClubEstablished 1881

After a quiet off-season things are starting to wake up again a Leander.

The Fort Hare students have been training for Boat Race and we have both a Men's and Ladies Eight rowing in Port Alfred this year. We look forward to some good results from them at Boat Race. Good Luck guys.

The club is busy preparing for the Inaugural South African Indoor Rowing Championships. Preparations are far advanced and the Orient Theatre should prove to be a good venue for spectators and competitors alike. The venue is at sea-level so lets hold thumbs for some good times. Entries are coming in steadily and close on 23 September 2011.

ELBA are spending a great deal of money sprucing up our clubhouse by upgrading the toilets and changeroom facilities. Wait till you see it.

University of Fort Hare Rowing Club(Affiliated to Leander Rowing Club)

Fort Hare Rowing Club is a relatively new club currently affiliated to Leander Rowing Club. The club is a student club run by students and is still in the development phase. The club currently boasts a mens and ladies 8 who competed at Boat Race 2011 and will continue to train through to Buffalo Regatta 2012.

Despite the size the club has been fairly active this season. While results have not been brilliant they have shown significant improvement on past years. Our crews have moved up to B races at boat race having

moved up to B races at boatrace having previously rowed in the novice races. This is a big step forward for the club and we believe we enjoyed some success in those divisions by finishing 9th at Boat Race.

This year has seen a fantastic repsonce from th e C l u b i n te rms o f tra i n i n g a n d organisation and it has been a pleasure to be part of a club that is heading in the right direction.

Rolo Noge

The end of SA Senior Champs marked the end of the sprint season, and work began on gruelling training for Boatrace. The entire club did exceedingly well with all 3 crews improving their positions last year with both Men's A and B crews going from 6th to 5th position and the Women's A crew jumping from 8th to 6th. Special thanks to Grey High School and the University of Johannesburg for lending us Lady Simpson and Havoc for our Ladies A crew and Men's A crew respectively to race in at the regatta.

The club's biggest goal for next year is to get a coach as we have been without since the Buffalo regatta and to gain an extra crew for Boatrace 2012. We have already begun training up a Ladies B crew and are looking to see good things from them in the upcoming sprints season.

Wade Murison

The NMMU Rowing Club has been through quite a few ups and downs this year, from achieving many good club results and some outstanding individual accomplishments, to being subjected to devastating floods and a theft of coaching equipment.

We started off with a bang this year at the 124th Annual Buffalo regatta on the 17th-19th February. We came away with 4 x 1st places, 2 x 2nd places and 3 x 3rd places earning us an overall of 17 points, placing us 2nd in the senior section out of 8 senior clubs. Later we took part in the USSA-R Sprints regatta held on the Vanderkloof dam on the 25th & 26th March. Here we took 1 x 1st place, 7 x 2nd places and 4 x 3rd places, putting us 6 overall out of 9 universities. We are very proud of Jason Taylor for making the Blues team (Full USSA-R Colours) for the 2nd time, and to his brother Brad Taylor and Benji Ekron for making the Grudge team (Half USSA-R Colours).

In the past, our club hasn't sent many rowers to the SA Senior Championships regatta due to the costs involved in getting them there, however, this year we joined forces with Grey High School Rowing Club and with the organisation of Benji Ekron, were able to send up 6 men and 2 ladies. Our ladies did well to come away with a win in NMMU colours and a win as joined forces with 2 Rhodes ladies. Our men also did well coming away with a 3rd in the MA2x and winning the MBx+.

NMMU ROWING CLUB

The Tuks Rowing Club is a newly established club in the TuksSport environment. It was originally joined to the Roodeplaat Rowing Club. In 2008 the club chose to branch away and become independent. It has grown from strength to strength over the years. We train at Roodeplaat Dam, North of Pretoria where our boat house is situated. It is an open club where we have had several school students rowing for Tuks and other members that participate in the senior regattas that are not University students.

Since the club’s separation from Roodeplaat Rowing Club we have found our feet and are taking big steps forward. We now have a larger fleet of boats and hope to purchase more as the years go by. All of our boats are named after heroes from various stories, myths and legends. We also had a boathouse makeover earlier in the year, where we painted the Tuks stripe on the back wall of our shed and painted the door frame on the outside red. The TuksRowing shed can now been seen on the water at Roodeplaat Dam, making a bold statement.

The overall vibe in the Tuks Rowing Club is incredible to be a part of and to watch. The club dynamic varies from National rowers, aspiring to be Olympians, to University students that want to take part in competitive university rowing and be a part of a good club atmosphere. The members support each other during ergo pieces in the gym (even if a member is injured or sick, they’ll be in the gym cheering other members on), shouting from the banks of the dam or the river during races, spending nights out together at the movies or in Hatfield Square, and just general care and support for one another.

TuksRowing has had a big year of growth in 2011. We unfortunately started our year with low numbers and our performance in regattas in the sprints season was in desperate need of change and improvement. Our goal for the year was to take two men’s and two women’s crews to the Mutual & Federal Universities Boat Race held in Port Alfred. We were determined to achieve our goal. The club then hosted two open days to promote our club in May and in July,

TUKS ROWING CLUBTaking Big Steps since 2008

where we drew in several novices that were interested in rowing and joining our club.

We achieved our goal and proved to be even more successful than expected. The club took two men’s and two women’s crews to Boat Race, and each one of our crews qualified for the A final in both the A and B events. Unfortunately, one of our A crew members was unable to participate so our B crew rowed a composite crew and were then only able to row the B final in the B events. The Women’s A crew placed 2nd in the Women’s A events, the Men’s A crew placed 1st in the Men’s A events, the Women’s B crew placed 1st in the Women’s B events and the Men’s B crew placed 3rd in the Men’s B events. The racing was very exciting and now we have new goals to set for the club and bigger dreams to work towards.

We look forward to a full successful year in 2012 where we aim for newer heights.

If you would like more information about the club or wish to follow us, add us as a friend on Facebook, Tuks Rowing.

Coreen Walstra

It’s an almost circular expanse of water, fringed by reeds, its ruffled waters reflecting a lone mine dump in the distance. Looking north, the skyscrapers of Johannesburg’s CBD loom low on the horizon. On any early morning you will find a scattering of rowers circling along the shore, their blades beating a steady rhythm, the low rays of the sun shining across the clear water. This is Wemmer Pan, tucked off Rosettenville / Turf Road, in La Rochelle, south of Johannesburg.

Wemmer Pan has been a home to water sports for 100 years of unbroken tradition, first yachting, then rowing, and latterly kayaking and dragon boats. It was in 1911 that Wemmer Pan Sailing Club was originally established by miners from Old Village Deep and City Deep Gold Mines, back in the days when Johannesburg was little more than a dusty, brawling mining camp. The Club was given surface water rights by the 6 mining companies who owned the water-filled former brick quarry. Rowing started formally some years later in 1920, followed by the establishment of a rowing section, which continues to flourish as Wemmer Pan Rowing Club. The proud history of Wemmer Pan was recently recognised when it was listed as a national heritage site.

Wemmer Pan Rowing Club100 Years on the Pan

WPRC’s incoming Management Committee, chaired by Rod MacKinnon, aims to ensure that 100 years on the water at Wemmer Pan is celebrated in fine s ty le, by mak ing the forthcoming Wemmer Sprint 2011 Regatta (15 & 16 October) one to remember, along with a number of other commemorative events , including a dinner dance.

Other members of the Committee include: Nicolette Hayes (Secretary), Graham Hubert (Treasurer), Charley Lewis (Vice Chair), Shaun d’Hotman (Captain), John Sokolsky and Graham Hutchins.

The Committee aims to ensure that rowing at WPRC experiences a resurgence, making the club vibrant and sustainable, with a well-equipped fleet of boats providing the basis for recreational and competitive rowing for all members. Says chairperson, Rod MacKinnon, “We are proud of the performance record of our Club through the years in open competition, its preparation of national rowers and Olympians, its support and nurturing of school clubs and junior rowers, as well as providing administrators at all levels of our sport. Over the years we have experienced

ups and downs as all clubs do and this 100th year on home water is a significant achievement for members made possible through all their many contributions. We are charting a new course and look forward to setting a solid base for the start of our second century here.”

The Club will shortly be hosting the 53rd Wemmer Sprint Rowing Regatta. For the first time in several years the regatta will be held

over two days, on 15 and 16 October 2011, offering a full programme of sprint racing on a fully-buoyed course over 702 metres.. Rowers of all ages, girls and boys, women and men, from U14 to Masters, will be competing. Dragon boats and kayaks will also be in action, along with special races for parents’ eights. The regatta is planned as a celebration of 100 years of water sports at Wemmer PanOne of the traditional highlights of the regatta is the men's coxless four – and particularly the chance to break a record that has stood up too all comers since 1993. Wemmer Pan Rowing Club has offered a prize of R 10 000 - up for the taking by the crew that breaks this 18 year-old record - together with the honour of gracing the cover of the regatta programme until the record is broken again.

Wemmer Pan Rowing Club will also launch a series of Sunday Learn to Row Clinics, with the first of these scheduled for 9 am on Sunday 6 November. The Clinics are structured as a 4-week course aimed at the novice rower or those who would like to be introduced to this exciting and challenging sport.

Wemmer Pan may be a rough circle of sometimes choppy wa t e r , t ucke d a wa y s ou t h o f Johannesburg. But it is home to a proud rowing tradition and a club with a determination to build the sport into the future. Come down one morning, dip your blades into the Wemmer waters, and feel your boat drive forward under you.

Charley LewisPhotographs by Doug Hayes and Charley Lewis

were battling it out with one of the Netherland club crews that pulled away beating us by a reasonable margin. Our time in the end was fast but not fast enough, with the Netherland World team who came in with a time of 6:03, we just managed to crack a very impressive 6: 29 which placed us in fourth overall. The next morning it was time to race the Single Sculls Semi Final. This was one of the hardest races that I was to encounter in Amsterdam as I was racing against an American sculler, a Netherlands sculler and other foreign clubs that I had never heard of. I placed a 4th out of 6 scullers in my semi-final. This meant that I was in the B final which was only due to happen quite a bit later that day. The B final ended in a spectacular fashion with me coming second and 8th out of 19 entries, my time was a 07:39,08 which I was very pleased with as it is my personal best.

Oliver Husband

Before I left for the Netherlands, my trip started with five solid days of training at Roodeplaat Dam with the Quadruple Scull that I was to be racing in, in Amsterdam. The build up to the competition was great and extremely serious with Ernie Steenkamp (a National Selector) and Jamie Crowley (SA Coach) giving us all the orders and preparing us for what was to happen on the Saturday and Sunday race days. Saturday’s heats were off to great start with our quad coming in 2nd place with a time of 06:41,25 being beaten by the Netherlands crew that went on to take first place in the A final. After the quads race it was time for my Single Scull race. We were very fortunate with perfect weather for a great day of racing with me coming in 1st place in my heat beating Indonesia and other Netherland crews. Later that day, it was time for the Quadruple Scull’s A final. There was a slight tail wind which, I personally thought, gave us an advantage against the other crews. We had been training all week in windy conditions and so we were well prepared.

Our start was rather scrappy mainly due to the suspense of the pre-race warm up and the adrenaline was pumping. We made excellent progress pulling a 1:33 for the first 500m and we

A South African Junior on his experience at

Holland-Beker Regatta

Alfreds Rowing ClubEstablished 1864

Heidelberg visit May 2011:The Heidelberg Regatta is held annually in spring, in May. Rowers from all over Germany pull in to attend this regatta and several clubs from other countries also participate - Czechoslovakia, France and others. It is run to German precision and is a fun, impressive and wonderful event. Alfred Rowing Club, together with Old Eds and Adrian Higgins have started a sister club relationship with the Heidelberg Ruderklub and visited the regatta again this year in May 2011. The club members are warm, hospitable and unbelievably generous. We were carried on hand and foot by wonderful club members. Florian Menold and his wife Katja and his father, Pauli Menold and his wife Christine took hospitality to a new level.

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OP E N IN G C R U IS E : S unda y 4 SeptemberThe ZVYC Opening Cruise was held on Sunday. A poker race was held, where rowers and sailors navigated from one jetty to another, to collect cards and ultimately win a prize at the end of the race. Alfreds managed to put three boats on the water, a quad with Marleen, Ken, Sheila and a one other, a double with Ken’s son and his friend and myself rowing Thirsty Berty.The weather was ideal with just a light breeze to help the sailors.The race was interesting with a congestion of sailing and rowing boats at each jetty, jostling to get a card, and some gluhwein!In the end, it was the double which crossed the finish l ine in first place, but not necessarily the winners of the Poker hand – and thus our rowing season started.

HEAD OF THE VLEI: Sunday 28 AugustOn Sunday 28 August, we started the season with a traditional “Head of the Vlei” as an opening event,The conditions were good with a light North Westerly wind. We had a few boats on the water, consisting of a coxless four, Dickon, with Keith Stacey, David Le Page, Gavin Kirk and myself, Jenny MacDonald and Liesl Jobson in a double and Martin Vanlierde who rowed his single scull.The coxless four had a great circuit of the vlei with the boat sitting level, considering that it was a scratch crew with two potential new members on board.

Although there were no buoys laid out, it was nice to be able to open the rowing season with this event after having had strong winds affect this event for the last few years.

ALFREDS HISTORY:We have been handed two envelopes at the Opening Cruise, from Linda, the daughter of Bill Rabinowitz containing various historical newspaper articles, letters and some small photographs of the activities of the Alfred Rowing Club when the boatshed was housed below the pier in Table Bay before it was demolished. These photographs are unique, showing the boats being launched from under the pier, but unfortunately the negatives are not with the photographs. We have a report on the visit by the Cambridge crew in 1939, just before the war started, which makes interesting reading. There is also a history of the tub “Dopey” which was rescued by Bill and donated to the Maritime Museum. The history has been recorded by Bill in his own handwriting. Another interesting item, is a letter of invitation, written by Des Sieni, to the Alfred Rowing Club 100 year celebration dinner in the Gardens Hotel, the cost of which was a staggering R 2.50 including wine and cigars! We doubt that we can repeat that for our 150 year celebrations in 2014.

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Congratulations to all the South African Rowers on your performances in Bled. You have done us proud. To the Womens Pair and Lightweight Mens Coxless Four, a big well done on qualifying for London 2012.

W2- Lee-Ann Persse and Naydene Smith - 6th in Final A and Qualified for OlympicsLM4- James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Tony Paladin -

5th in Final B and Qualified for OlympicsM2- Ramon Di Clemente and Lawrence Brittain -1st in Final CLTAMix4+ Masego Mokhine, Sisanda Msekele, Clifford Andrews,

Gavin Kilpatrick and Samantha de Reuck - 1st in Final C

M4- Peter Lambert, Jozef Muller, David Hunt and Shaun Keeling - 3rd in Final C

W1x Hayley Arthur - 5th in Final CLM2- Stephen Mattushek and Lawrence Ndlovu -

Withdrawn due to injury

Coaches: Roger Barrow, Dustyn Butler, Paul Jackson, Andrew Grant and Marco Galeone

Team Manager: Nicola Macleod

In the primary qualification regatta for the London 2012 Olympic Games’ rowing regatta, the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia saw 33 countries qualify boats.

A total of 129 boats qualified for London in Bled with Great Britain securing the highest number of boats succeeding in 13 out of the 14 Olympic events. The only boat that Great Britain missed out on was the women's single sculls. The successfully qualified boats mean that the country, rather than the athletes, earn a spot in the Olympic Games. Individual countries then have the oppor tunity to pick the most appropriate athletes for the qualified boats in the year up to next year's Olympic Games. Of the 14 Olympic events, there are three lightweight events (men's and women's double and men's four) and 11 open events (men's and women's single sculls, men's and women's pair, men's and women's double sculls, men's and women's quadruple sculls, men's and women's eight and men's four). There are further opportunities for Olympic qualification. The continental qualification regattas

will allow opportunities for Asian, African and Latin American nations to earn spots. There is also a final Olympic Qualification Regatta, open to all countries, in May 2012. This will be held in Lucerne, Switzerland. The 2011 World Rowing Championships also qualified adaptive crews for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. A total of 32 boats qualified for the Paralympic Games in Bled. These boats came from 19 countries. Ukraine, France, China and next year's host country Great Britain qualified the most with three boats each. Adaptive rowing at the Paralympic Games is contested in four events; men's and women's single, mixed double and mixed coxed four. At Bled the top eight boats in each of these events qualified for 2012. There is another chance for Paralympic qualification. The final Paralympic Qualification Regatta will be held in Belgrade, Serbia next May 2012 with a minimum of two boats in each of the four events earning spots for London. The London Paralympic Games will be the second time that adaptive rowing has been contested.

World Rowing ChampionshipsBled, Slovenia

28 August to 4 September 2011

Well done to everybody involved. Your futures look bright.

South African Results

JW2X Jenienne Curr and Kayleigh Scheepers 6th in Final A

JM2- Michael Voerman and Vincent Breet 6th in Final A

JW2- Catherine Taylor and Holly Norton 2nd in Final B

JM4- Matthew Stevens, Devon Miller, Edward Templemore-Walters and Cameron Hoey

3rd in Final C

JM1X James Johnston 1st in Final D

JM2X Katiego Sotsaka and Murray Nocton-Smith 2nd in Final D

A strong South African Contingent particpated in the 2011 World Rowing Junior Champsionships at Dorney Lake, Eto, Great Britain. The regatta was a warm-up and trial run for the 2012 Olympics and provided Juniors an opportunity for future stars to launch themselves onto the International Rowing scene.

48 countries with a total of 578 athletes competed on the Olympic Regatatta course. The finals were observed by Sir Sebastian Coe, Sir Steve Redgrave and President of the organising committee sir Matthew Pinsent.

The 2006 World Championships were held at the eight laned man made regatta venue in front of Eton College. Minor changes had to be made to the course to bring it up to Olympic standard. These have been done and the venue is ready to host the greatest sporting event on Earth.

South Africa entered 6 boats rowed by 13 rowers.

The Womens Doub le and Mens Pa ir d id exceptionally well to finish 6th in their respective A Finals while the other crews rowed well to fly the South African flag high.

Welcome in Amsterdam

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FISA World Rowing Under 23 ChampionshipsJuly 21-24, 2011

The 2011 World U23 Rowing Championships was full of records. The most countries ever, the most records broken and a record amount for rain during the month of July in Amsterdam

Four South African boats were entered into the regatta formally known as the Nations Cup.

The Mens Pair achieved a Silver medal doing it instyle. Woinning their heat to progress straight to the Semi Finals. They then posted the fastest time in the Semi Final to progress to the A Final.

In the Final Great Britain managed to get the Gold with the South African's hot on their heals.

Well Done on your Silver medal.

South African ResultsM2- David Hunt and Lawrence Brittain

Silver medalists 2nd in Final AW2- Claire - Louise Bode and Kate Christowitz

5th in Final ALM2- Servaas Crowther and Stephen

Mattushek2nd in Final BLW1x Kate Johnstone

5th In Final B

Extract from the Daily Newsletter - BM2- In a new world’s best time of 6:20.43, the BM2- final was won by the British favourites, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis. Nash: ‘We knew we could beat the South Africans with a good race.’ David Hunt and Lawrence Brittain from South Africa were second, the bronze medal was for the Germans Anton Braun and Bastian Bechler.

This year’s FISA World Masters was held at the championship course in Poznan, Poland. The event attracted over 2500 rowers from 37 countries. The biggest delegation from Poland’s neighbor "#$%&'()*+,)-#./#/)012)$,*#$3!)4$56&5')&'/)7836$&.5&)&.3,)+&/).&$9#)/#.#9&:,'3)*56+);11<)&'/)==>)$,*#$3)$#3?#@:A#.(!

The regatta is run more on a festival basis than a championship basis. Due to the sheer number of entries, each boat class in each age category can have several heats. Unlike a championship regatta, there is no progression through to a final. Each heat stands alone as race, with only the winning crew receiving a medal. All races are over 1000m and heats are structured so that you compete against crews with average ages as close as possible.

Despite this, the standard of rowing is generally very high, since the regatta comes at the end of the European season, with some competitors having rowed in over 20 regattas and as many as 50 races leading up to World Masters. This makes masters rowing very competitive, even if the main thing at stake is pride.

South Africa was represented this year by 3 masters rowers from VLUJ, namely Nigel Bakker, Bob Tucker and Jill Tucker. An honorable mention to Ian Tucker, who lives in Europe and rowed in his German Club Colours.

The 3 rowers competed collectively in 5 events. Nigel Bakker managed a win in his C 1x (Age 43 – 49) race and collected some bling as a result. The weather conditions for this race were challenging to say the least, with a 30km/h tail wind, leading to very choppy water in the last 500m. The swells were so bad that the boat filled with water to the level of the deck, such that Nigel was required to stop twice on the way up to the warm area and start to bail the boat.

Nigel Bakker and Bob Tucker competed in both the D 2x (Age 50 – 54) and E 2x (Age 55 – 59) events, managing a second place in both races (just 0.4 seconds back in the D event).

Bob and Nigel then teamed up with Ian and his German doubles partner Michael, in the D 4x and managed a fourth place in a 6 boat field, despite a spectacular crab by one crew member who shall remain nameless!

The final race was the Mixed F 2x (Age 60-64) in

which Bob and Jill Tucker managed a 4th from 5 in a rented boat that was rigged too heavy.

FISA World Masters is a celebration of rowing with some competitors deep into their 80’s and even 90’s taking part, proving that you’re never too old to row. As they say in the classics – old rowers never die, they just show up at FISA World Masters!

FISA World Rowing Masters RegattaPosnan, Poland

27 to 11 September 2011

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