Excellent response Cutters...
The Langstone Rowing Weekend has 3 elements:
Saturday is the Gig Clubs CPGA/Jurassic Coast home regatta - an important event, with 6 visiting Clubs from the Jurassic coast and this year, for the first time - London Cornish Pilot Gig Club... They are based in Richmond and Docklands and the Richmond end are friends of ours of many years. They are attending the RHRR again this year in at least one boat...
There is a lot of work that is needed to make the rowing weekend go well and it starts over at the Marina as early as Thursday 22nd June 5pm till 7pm when we all - Giggers and Rowers alike - are invited to make it to clean up the beach surrounding the North Slip removing large stones, brambles and cleaning slipway using a jet washer provided by the Marina, we need to wear old kit gardening gloves, bring shovels, yard brooms and rubble sacks, wheelbarrows. Its importation this site is clean for the Regatta and the Round Hayling Rowing Race.
Then on Friday 23rd June 5pm till 7pm we need to help to erect a large catering tent on site. Also putting up signs and bunting, host incoming deliveries from club members to store
in hte Gig Clubhouse and Unit 3 the LAR space.
Saturday the Gig Club have a detailed rota for the Club members to support and run the Gig regatta... Food to be served from 8am on Saturday, a balance
required between Drinks , Cakes Sandwiches etc.
At the end of Saturday The Gig Club will tidy
the area and remove and store for the next day any equipment or tents, gazebos
which are outside of the Marina perimeter fence - using Unit 3.
Saturday night is the Rowers Party - at 7pm at a new venue this year as it has grown and we can all go to the Hayling Community Centre and wear our party rocks for food and music and dancing... book your tickets through [hidden email].
Sunday is down to the LCRC members to get there as indicated by Bobby and help set-up the food tent and start breakfast for the visiting crews.
We also need to meet and greet visiting crews, many of whom are only arriving on Sunday.
Emily will be helping register the arrivals and we need Rowing Club members all help with meet and greet:
So far it looks like we have:
Langstone Cutters Rowing Cub: 4 boats (2 Galleys, Skiff and Claydon)
Langstone Cutters Gig Club: 2 Gigs
London Cornish Gig Club: 1 Gig
Weymouth Gig Club: 1 Gig
London Bridge Rowing Club: 1 Gig and 1 Skiff;
ECA Gig Section: 1 Gig (possibly 2)
Tudor SC: 1 Bursledon Gig;
Hamble Scouts: 1 Gig, 1 Bursledon Gig
Lower Thames RC; 1 Celtic Long Boat;
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We may have other Gig Clubs staying over from Saturday to race the RHRR - from Portland, Poole, Swanage and Bridport - but they have not confirmed as yet.
An important part of this event is safety and safety boats: as sea front can be tricky in a wind (we have a revised course of around 10 miles inside Chichester Harbour if weather makes the sea too rough around the Winner and West Pole Sands).
A team of safety boats - 5 at the moment - will be supporting the racing. Crews include Colin, Paul Blick, Alan Bridle and James (Gig Club) and a boat from ECA and the IBTC. We need 2 persons in each safety boat so if you are not racing then let me know if you can help with the safety boat staffing and see the racing close up.
We can use the LAR Unit 3 in the Marina for all our operations, storage of food, gazebos, cakes and other paraphernalia.
All the volunteers working on Sunday will be given a white RHRR logo'd T shirt or blue Hoody to wear on the day in order to identify your role as helpers... (I would like them back at the end to wash for next year!!)
There will be 100 'T' shirts for sale on the day as well - to help pay for the safety boats and other costs.
The long range weather forecast looks OK... but only a forecast... lets see what we can do everyone... and have some fun...
Please support Bobby, Jenny and Chris on the food stall... we get to keep the surplus for our repair fund - so its a good cause!!
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