Explore Rowing
Explore Rowing is British Rowing’s programme to encourage more adults into rowing by offering a route into the sport which is not the conventional competition route. By providing stable recreational and adaptive rowing boats to established boat clubs the programme aims to support the successful bidders in delivering adult learn to row courses and a follow-on network for regional and national recreational rowing.
Newark Rowing Club are pleased to be one of the first six clubs in the country to be part of this initiative. The funding package has allowed us to invest in seven new stable boats. These have come from the Swift Racing Freedom range. The Freedom boats are for adaptive, recreational and touring rowers and are great to learn to row in as they have flat bottoms making them stable.
This is the gig 4!!
We also have singles and doubles (which can also be changed into triples!). The singles also have adaptive riggers.
As part of Explore Rowing we will be making our boats available to other clubs so that their members can come and row on our river for a change and our members can do the same at other Explore Rowing clubs across the country.
We will be organising three fun events these will include 'splash and dash' races, touring, and BBQs!!
We are going to name the boats after the greatest explorers of the 20thCentury. Their commitment to their goals was unquestioned and their bravery incomprehensible, their stories incredible and gut wrenching, they all paid the ultimate price in pursuing their dreams. What we can now achieve in these respective fields is largely down to the paths they carved 90-100 years ago.
The first five boats will be named after the members of the 1912 Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole: Edward WILSON; Henry BOWERS; Edgar EVANS; Lawrence OATES and of course Robert Falcon SCOTT, in foul weather, failing health and with no rations left they all passed away returning from the Pole, having been beaten there, just, by Amundsen. As life began to slip through away from him and his trusted companions died around him Scott wrote in his ‘message to the public’
“We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last [...] Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for”……
The tale cannot fail to tug at the hardiest of heart strings…
Of comparable bravery and spirit of adventure the remaining two boats will be named George MALLORY Andrew (Sandy) IRVINE. Somewhere between the 8th and 9th June 1924 these two men lost their lives to the highest mountain in the world. Both of them were fantastically talented mountaineers, climbing in an era when equipment was incredibly primitive and every climb could end in tragedy. Unlike the Antarctic explorers these men were still very much in their youth; Mallory was 37 and Irvine just 22. It is widely believed that these two fell to their deaths on the way down from the summit, and although Mallory’s body was discovered on the mountain in 1999 Irvine’s body has never been found…..Irvine carried the camera, which if ever found would prove, or not, whether they made it to the summit beating Hillary’s famous 1953 conquering with Sherpa Tensing Norgay.
In response to a reporter’s question “ why do you want to climb Everest? Mallory is famously quoted as replying “because it is there”