This Week in Rowing and Paddlesports
14 - 20 May
Rowing Calendar
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20 May, Deep Water Bay Dragon Boat
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20 May, Club Championships (followed by dinner)
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22 May, Staff Party
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26 May, Stanley Warm Up Dragon Boat
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27 May, Shing Mun 2 Regatta
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10 June, Head of the Bay (reschedule)
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17 June, Festival of Sport Indoor Challenge
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21 June, Dragon Boat Pool Party
Special note that the Around the Island Race has been moved to Sunday 11 November (and the Club Ball is now on the 17th).
plus many more on the website
Regular Training Opportunities
Wednesday Circuits
General fitness with a focus on core stability and paddling. 8pm in boatyard.
Email Charlie .
"Beasting on the Beach"
A tough land training session on the beach at Deep Water Bay. Early on Fridays - sign up via the Outrigger Teamsnap page or email Jeff.
Middle Island Rowing
Social rowing and Development rowers are welcome at 3.00pm Saturdays.
Session currently being coached by Jonny.
Middle Island morning training
Early sampan for weekday paddling and rowing.
The Club is arranging a 6.15am sampan service to MI on some weekday mornings so that people can go for a paddle or row before work.
Please contact Roger Holmes to get details and to put your name down. You need to book (via TeamSnap).
Social Kit - new order
New orders / New designs
There is a need for some new social shirts for the section, so get in touch now if you want some input.
We can reproduce the previous design (with a possible fabric change), but Jonny would like to hear from you before a final decision is made.
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Club Championships - 20 May, from 2pm
The 'big' one at Middle Island
Last chance to get on the lists for racing.
Contact Mike (men) and Alex (women) for rowing entries.
Rowing Section Dinner - 20 May, from 6.30pm
This is the one time of the year when we can gather together in a more formal setting (blazers/cocktail wear).
Paddlers of all types and rowers of all types can mix and dine together.
Bookings to Jonny Cantwell ASAP - closing on Thursday.
BBQ Buffett. Rowing Section Member $240, Guests $290
The first round of drinks is on the Captain!
Head of the Bay Regatta
The rescheduled day is 10 June.
There will be many visiting rowers and it is the biggest rowing event on our calendar.
Kellett Island Day
Sunday 3 June
This is a general fun day for the family with many activities. The Rowing Section have been asked to help with the Indoor Rowing race set up.
While the Rowing Association are providing the computer linked racing set up (as per ergo champs) and a technician, we've been asked to provide a few volunteers to ensure the tent is always manned by someone who can help out with a bit of coaching.
Sign up for an hour any time between 11am and 4pm.
Rowing
Shing Mun 2 - 27 May
Keep Mike and Alex up to date with your availability for the second Open regatta of the season.
Festival of Sport Indoor Challenge
The event is on 17 June, but entries are closing on 18 May.
There are 1000m and 2000m individual events for Junior and Open, a 4x500m team event and also a rather unusual 2000m pairs event with two rowers using sliders.
Training one-piece suit?
A few of the Shatin rowers have commented that they don't have any decent training kit and don't want to wear out their race day uniform.
Jonny is investigating a training suit from a different manufacturer (New Wave) to help fill this need.
Contact Jonny with any ideas for specification or design.
Outrigger
Club Champs - Teams Event
The OC events at the Club Champs will see a return of the mixed teams format that was successfully used at Christmas time.
Team Ouzo and Team Absinthe will paddle various combinations of OC1, OC2 and OC6 for points.
TeamSnap - on line management system.
The Outrigger group has moved to the TeamSnap system. Please go here to sign up.
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