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We are one of the South West’s most successful rowing clubs with over 150 years of history.

Congratulations to our club and all the awards rec

Congratulations to our club and all the awards received. Some of our lovely team attending the @wearainsta dinner. Wrapping up a crazy summer of racing, which we all should be proud of. Winter is very much upon us!

What an absolutely fabulous week of racing in Bany

What an absolutely fabulous week of racing in Banyoles for the @wrmr2025 this year with some great results from extremely strong 8 lane competition ! Well done and what a great end to the Masters 2025 regatta season. Now onto the Head racing !

1st
8+ Dave Byrnes,
4x- Eleanor & Dave
Dave Byrnes Mas G 4X
Julia Wood 2X

2nds
Dave Byrnes Mas E 4+
Dave Byrnes Mas F 2- (with Pete Atkinson)
Dave Byrnes Mas F 4+
Julia Wood 1X
Julia Wood 4X- (Pete Atkinson, Caroline, Duncan from Stourport)

3rds
David Byrnes 2X
Julia Wood 2X (Caroline)
Julia Wood 2X Mix (Pete Atkinson)
Kirsty & Di 2X
Kirsty & Di 2X

4th
Kirsty 1X
Kirsty 1X

5th
Kirsty & Di 4X-
Eleanor & Helen 2X

Today we remembered our former friend, coach and r

Today we remembered our former friend, coach and rower Stuart Redden with our annual Stu’s Challenge Memorial Race. Scratch 8+ crews of rowers old and new battled it out on Exeter’s historic quay. Congratulations to the winning crew and thank you all for participating!

A whole summer of racing @wearainsta has come to

A whole summer of racing @wearainsta has come to an end!
What a day our crews had at @port_of_dartmouth_royalregatta ! Very tricky conditions, but as always, we smashed it!

Wins

Jennifer Tomlinson and Chloe White SC 2X
Chloe White SB 1X

How else would you spend a bank holiday weekend th

How else would you spend a bank holiday weekend than three days of strong racing across two regattas ?

This year was @rossrowingclub 150th anniversary - with a rich history in rowing you can find out more about this impressive club on their website and Facebook ! The organisation for Ross to go ahead this year was vast and we wanted to say well done to them for pulling it off - it isn’t easy to row in a river with no water ! Here’s to many more successful regattas to come !

@gloucesterrowingclub provided intense competition with some amazing wins -

WMasG 2x Di Parish and Kirsty French-Constant

OMasF 1x David Byrnes.

MxMasC 2x Martin Keogh and Chloe White.

WMasB 4x- Katy Lancaster, Vickie Sincock, Eleanor Burke, Jen Simmons.

W2x Summer Harlowe and Chloe White

W2x Izzie and Caitlin

And then on to @rossrowingclub where we put a strong presence in - with a few wins and lots of finals !!
WMasF/G 4x- Jane Allsop, Anne-Marie Allison, Eleanor Burke, Jane Silver.

WMasD/E 1x Eleanor Burke

WMasG/H 2x Di Parish and Kirsty French-Constant.

With our women’s 2x, Jen and Daisy winning three races before before coming second in the final and our W4x- Jen, Daisy, Chloe, Vicky reaching the final !

Fun day out surfing the waves of @paigntonarc 🌊 on

Fun day out surfing the waves of @paigntonarc 🌊 one wrong turn and you could end up rowing the Channel! We had some great successes:

WSC4 + Win Louise Leighton, Heather Yeoman's,Sancha Rees, Chloe White, Cox Mel Dyke
OSC 4+ Win Aaron Tomlinson, Ed Purser, Tom Keir, Ashleigh Nock, Cox Tilly Slaven
OSB 4+ Win Tom Keir, Aaron Tomlinson, Will McCloskey,Ashleigh Nock, Cox Tilly
ON 1x Win Aaron Tomlinson
WN 1x Heather Yeomans
WSA 1x Chloe White

Stu Redden Eights Race This year Stu Redden’s Eig

Stu Redden Eights Race

This year Stu Redden’s Eights Race will take place on Saturday 13th September (the same day as our end of season celebration). This is open to all members - juniors, seniors, coaches, coxes and club members past and present

We would love to see you there please get your name and entries in by Friday 11th September !

Any queries to club captain Sam Cope captain@exeterrowingclub.com or Keith Sutherland keith@imprint.co.uk

An amazing day out for Exeter at Appledore. Despit

An amazing day out for Exeter at Appledore. Despite training on flat canal water, the club proved that our rowers are truly seaworthy, having secured the victor Ludorum!
Congratulations to all of our competitors:

Mixed masters doubles 1st D.Hwang and A.Allison
No. X1 1st H.Yeomans
Open Novice 1x 1st A.Tomlinson
Mixed Novice 2x 1st A.Vasileva and E.Purser
Women's SC 2x 1st C.White and S.Harlow
Women's Novice 4+ 1st L.leighton,H,Palfrey, A.Lewington, H.Yeomans
Open SB 4+ A.Tomlinson, T Kier, W.McCloskey, A.Nock
Open SC 4+ A.Tomlinson, E.Purser, T.Kier, L.Lees

Testing the waters: setting off our novice sculls

Testing the waters: setting off our novice sculls to contend with the 29kmph winds! #appledoreregatta

Gorgeous conditions… for sailing… @appledoreregatt

Gorgeous conditions… for sailing… @appledoreregatta

Here we have a very special mention from one of ou

Here we have a very special mention from one of our spectacular juniors George Byrnes who has not only won at @britishrowing champs this year but absolutely smashed the previous record out the water. Big well done to you George !

It’s with great sadness that we have to report tha

It’s with great sadness that we have to report that Dave Woods passed away this morning following a stroke yesterday.

From Paul Wilson and Kevin Dentith:

Dave joined ERC from Plymouth in the late 1980’s. I think he started with the men’s novice / Senior C squad. When he stopped racing, he started to coach the men’s Novice squad with various degrees of success. It wasn’t long before he took over as Club Secretary, a position he held for many years. He also became involved with the Regatta and for over 25 years he was the secretary dealing with the race entries and sorting out the race program, a major role he carried out until 2022. For a short period of time, Dave was one of the Club’s first Welfare Officers. He was also one of the Trustees for the Club’s Trust fund a position he held right up to his death. In recognition of his contributions and service to the Club, Dave was made a Life Member at the AGM in 2021 and at our last AGM he was made President of the Club, a position which sadly he wasn’t able to see through for a full term.
In addition to what he did for ERC, he also held two positions in WEARA. Firstly, while at Plymouth, he was the Honorary Secretary of WEARA. After becoming an umpire, he eventually took over as Chairman of the Umpires Panel, a role which involved coordinating the Umpires to officiate at our regattas. In addition to those roles, he also organised a number of the National Police Rowing Championships when they were held in our region.
Dave will be remembered for putting so much back into the sport we all enjoy and he will be greatly missed by all of us he knew him.

May he rest in peace.

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