THE Island’s three premier rowing clubs will be competing at the South Coast Rowing Championship near Eton today (Saturday).
The concluding event of the 2017 coastal rowing season is being hosted by the Hamsphire and Dorset Amateur Rowing Association, at Dorney Lake, the venue for the 2012 Olympic Regatta.
Ryde, Newport and Sandown Shanklin Rowing Clubs will be well represented in the regattas.
Ryde Rowing Club will take a large squad, with entries in the Junior Regatta, the boys J16 coastal coxed fours, a boys J16 and girls J14 double.
Three single scullers will also be racing in the boys J16 and coastal J16 events.
In the Senior Regatta, which follows the junior events, the club will have a junior senior four, a men’s and ladies coastal junior four and a men’s novice coastal four competing.
The club’s Hampshire and Dorset ARA Coastal Ladies Junior Fours Championship winners are also competing — representing the association to take on the champions and runners-up from the other two South Coast rowing associations.
This will be the 37th time a crew from the club has represented its association in the championship events.