A formidable sculler in Victorian times, Mr Jordan is now a keen veteran participant in the WRC triathlons. He has put in some miraculous performances, finishing off a cup of tea while the other athletes start, and then smugly tucking into a pint when the second athlete arrives at the finish line. He is chairman of the new clubhouse fundraising committee, and has to find £400,000.

Under close questioning at a recent committee meeting, he explained his plans to execute a heavily leveraged derivatives trade on LIFFE with the club's tea money. Mr Jordan is also a qualified coach, and prefers the little-used coaching technique of waiting until just before a race before making technical suggestions.

Mr De Cata learned to row in a Roman galley at Walton RC, in which he progressed to captain, and rowed successfully at many ancient regattas. adly no photographic evidence of Nick's successes has survived. 2,000 years later he is still captain and chief whipper, forcing tired and exhausted galley slaves onto the ergo for another 5km.

Neil started rowing with Cambridge University and went on to a successful rowing and sculling career as a lightweight winning many events including the 2002 Commonwealth gold medal in quad sculls. More recently he has coached junior crews to wins at the Schools Head and National Schools and selection for GB teams. He still finds time for training and has been the World Masters Champion in coxless fours for the past three years.

Dave learnt to row at Cambridge '99 and with them went Head of the Cam, won a J18 bronze and a lightweight eights bronze at the National championships. On moving into the area in 1977 he joined WRC. Over the years he has won gold medals at Gent regatta, the National Championships and got to two Henley semi-finals. He represented England twice in 1983 (coxed four) and 1990 (eight) and has never been in a losing Hyne Cup crew. He also won S1 pairs at the Pairs Head with the current President and says they were unlucky not to win the Head outright.

He is also a member of the Thames Valley Skiff Club as nowadays it the only way he gets to see his wife and daughter!

Having previously built boats with Carl Douglas Dave has worked at Janousek Racing since 1983.

A former athlete he joined the club from Weybridge, where he had been Captain, on a free transfer in 1975 and has been unable to find his way back. Originally coached juniors and later moved on to be national junior co-ordinator and coach to several GB junior crews. A Gold Level coach he completed 25 years an umpire. He has done many jobs within the sport: ARA Divisional Representative: ARA Honorary Treasurer and ARA Chief Executive: He was Executive Secretary and Treasurer of The World Rowing Championships 1986 and holds the FISA Medal of Honour (one of a handful of Brits to do so). President of two university boat clubs and Vice President and former Honorary Secretary of Walton and Weybridge Regatta. A founding trustee of the River and Rowing Museum. Rumoured to have thought out a new format for racing with Walton Small Boats head to encourage bar sales, but strenuously denies recruiting fellow Tykes to the club to influence the choice of Yorkshire beers.A Freeman of the City of london and the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames he spends his dotage attending their functions and indulging his passion for claret and real ale(not mixed).

Mr Bishop is another rugby convert, and has made the transition from standing at the back of the scrum while the forwards push down the pitch, to sitting in the bow of his double, while the stroke pulls him down the river.

WRC's very own Sir Christopher Wren, Mr Bishop designed the new clubhouse himself, so please address any detailed comments about the planned location of the coat hooks in the new changing rooms to him. Mike is also an occasional member of the WRC swimming team.

Indisputably the fastest sculler on the committee, although considering the athletes available at present, this is a modest accomplishment.  He famously turned down a sponsored single on the grounds that his current one is fast enough to beat Paul Hone.

Ken has been a member of Walton rowing club since 1972 and he is an experienced ARA coach (Bronze level & UKCC level 3), having coached at the junior and adult level for over 20 years. He has retired from business and is currently coaching as a part time professional at St Georges College and at Walton Rowing Club.  Ken is also a member of the Thames Valley Skiff and Punting Club.

Ken also works for the ARA as an accredited rowing coach educator and coach assessor for the “UKCC level 2 and level 3” courses and he will be seen at many clubs across the Thames region with his clip board and pen.