The general meeting to elect our Captain for 2010 will take place at the Clubhouse on Thursday 30th July 2009

Pictures from W&W Regatta are on Dave Williams website Click here to see.

and also in the gallery Click here to see.

Walton had a fantastic week-end at the local regattas recently. At Walton & Weybridge regatta many of our novices had their first taste of racing. The two Petes, Oscar and Andy made up a new mens novice four, while Jo, Claire, Petra and Sophie took to the water in the women's event.

Sido Jensma and Sean Hulley also made their sculling racing debuts with very respectable performances. There were some great wins for the club: Sam Knight won the J16 singles, and then teamed up with Matt Wade, Liam Maloney and Alex Jones to power away to an "easily" verdict over Windsor Boys in J16 quads. Windsor Boys got their revenge in J15 quads, but Walton won J13 with Mitchell, Atkinson, Keefe and Ollie Knight, coxed by Ross Jones; and also J12 quads with Ross Jones sculling this time, along with Alexi Buckingham, Luka Kebo, Manu and Honor Lilley coxing. There were also wins for Ollie Tomalin and Nick Clarke in IM3 doubles; Neil West and Andrew Cook in IM2 pairs, James Wedlake, John Davey, Ollie Tomalin and Dom Meyrick-Cole, coxed by Holly Jones in IM3 fours and Laurence Fain and Harry Gaywood in J13 doubles.

Not to be outdone, the girls entered Weybridge Ladies regatta the next day, determined to add to the tally of wins. They achieved it in style, with the girls J16 eight, racing as Novice, taking several lengths out of an experienced Twickenham eight in the final. The crew was Hannah Traylen, Sophie Walker, Naomi Allberry, Alice Correia-Morton, Holly Jones, Joanna Fish, Julia Clarke, Fiona Thiemann and cox, Amy Flavell. Fiona also won J17 singles and Julia teamed up with Sam Ball to win J16 doubles as well. Ollie Knight also entered the open J13 and J14 singles, winning both!

Thirteen wins overall in one of the clubs most successful week-ends with 64 individual club members entering at least one event! Walton's up-and-coming rowing dynasties made significant contributions with the Clarkes winning 3 events, and the Knights literally keeping up with the Jones' with 5 events each!

Ken Roberts will be running a UKCC level 2 course at Walton Rowing Club from 24th to 30th August Click here for details

To download an application form Click here

and to download another form that you will need once you are on the course Click here

At Wallingford regatta Sam Knight and Matt Wade overcame the disappointed of disqualification at the Junior inter-regional’s with a convincing win in J16 double sculls

Matt and Sam receive their pots

At Thames Ditton we had three wins,Adam Shire won Nov 1x, the J13 quad won and as did Sam Knight in J16 1x, plus the J14 quad won their plate competition.

More photos added Walton had a great day at Marlow Sring Regatta winning seven events.

Ollie and Sam Kinight got the ball rolling in the morning winning J16 2x and Angus won Jun 1x. Nick Clarke followed them winning IM3 1x.

In the afternoon session Ollie won his second event of the day sculling very well to win a close race in J14 1x. Nick Clarke and Ollie Tomalin beat some good crews to win Jun 2x and the girls quad won two very close races to take WJ16 4x. The veteran D eight with the Captain on board more than doubled the handicap start on the Weybridge vet C eight and also beat Marlow in the process by a length to win their event.

The novice 4+ lost half a length at the start of the final but hung on gamely just failing to force their way through for a win. Adam Shire won his semi to make the final of novice 1x but lost narowly as did Neil in vet 1x.

Picture from Marlow Spring are in the gallery Click here to see.

Walton's younger rowers did us proud at last week-ends Junior Inter-regional Champs at Nottingham. For most of them it was their first experience of a proper 6-lane regatta and they all performed brilliantly with every crew making the A final.

Sam Ball and Holly Jones showed their incredible potential by winning the bronze medal in the J16 pairs, even though they are only 14 and 15! They then teamed up with Julia Clarke and Joanna Fish to go one better and get the silver medal in the fours, Joanna raising the rate to 42 to come from a length down in 3rd place to snatch silver in a photo finish! Very mature racing from all four girls, and a credit to their coach Andrew Cook who won a club-record 4 JIRR medals as an athlete, and now 2 more as a coach!

Alex Jones, Sam Johnson (stepping in on the day for an injured James Burton), Matt Wade and Sam Knight rowed an excellent heat, and final to match the girls by getting the silver medal in the boys four too. Matt and Sam were denied a second medal, when very harshly disqualified for drifting out of their lane in a very fast J16 doubles final.

Sam Young, Dan Patton, Joe Taylor, Dean Robson, and cox Kieran Reals did very well in their first major regatta to make the J15 quad A final and finish a creditable 5th overall against very strong opposition.

Our youngest competitors Harry Gaywood, Ali Douglas, Ollie Knight, Callum Gathercole and cox Laurence Fain just missed out on the medals, with fourth place in the J14 quads. This bodes well for next year as several of them are still J13

GB Junior Trials Lydia, Nick and Angus attended Spring Assessment camp at Nottingham (with Nick and Neil coaching at various times). These three, along with Sam Knight and Ollie Tomalin will be attending the GB Junior Small Boats Regatta at Dorney on Sun 26th April.

The Club regatta was held on Saturday afternoon in dry but windy conditions. Ten quads raced enthusiastically and the spectators enjoyed the bbq and ice cream wagon.
A good time was had by all.

Photos taken by Dave Williams are in the gallery, more to be added later Click here to see the latest pics.

Those of you attending the Dinner Dance please send a cheque for £38 per person to Sarah at the Club or leave one with Len behind the bar

The Walton Rowing Club Dinner Dance will be on Saturday 21st March at Silvermere Golf Club, near Brooklands. Arrival time is 7.30 for 8pm and there will be a three course meal followed by dancing to live music. Tickets for the evening will cost £38 each and can be booked by putting your name on the list at the Club or by contacting Sarah Clarke on 01932 247437 or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

During the course of the evening there will be a raffle to raise much needed funds for the rebuilding project.

Why not make up a table with friends or bring the crew you race or raced with in the Head!!

The stream having dropped a bit and with the red boards down it was decided that the Hyne Cup would go ahead after all with just the more experienced crews racing. The Walton juniors were quickest followed by the Walton veterans and then the Weybridge veterans.The Weybridge women's eight beat a Walton girls octuple

Walton Junior 8+..................09:26
Walton Vet 8+........................09:40
Weybridge Vet 8+.................09:56
Weybridge Women's 8+.....10:21
Walton Girls Octuple....... ...11:01
Walton Novice Quad ......... 11:42

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Hot of the press the results of the Turkey Triathlon are here
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Congratulations to everyone who took part

View for pot winners and overall results by boat type

Mike Hendry has left hospital and is now home for Christmas. Mike had a serious accident with a car on the towpath on the morning of Walton Small Boats while cycling to brief the start timing team.
We wish him a speedy and full recovery.

Crew Instuctions, maps and safety instructions for the 2008 Walton Small Boats Head are available here

More to follow

The latest edittion of the 1927 Club newsletter has been released.

Members of Walton Rowing Club and Thames Valley Skiff Club With their Families Are invited to join The Parry Family at a Gathering At Walton Rowing Club on;

Sunday, 30th November 2008 At Noon

To Celebrate the Life of DAVID WILLIAM PARRY Who sadly passed away On Sunday, 28th September 2008

The Secretary of Henley Royal Regatta has announced that there is to be a Memorial Service for David Parry, who died on 28th September, at St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames on Thursday, 4th December 2008, at 3.00 p.m.

The Parry Family have asked that this information should be passed to "as many people as possible".

Would people attending the Memorial Service please let the Parry Family know. Also if anyone attending would like to take Tea at Leander Club afterwards would they do the same, by contacting Eira Parry by E-mail on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

It is with deep regret that the Club has to report that David Parry, Past President and Captain, passed away at 1.45p.m. on Sunday, 28th September. David has suffered over the past months with Pancreatic cancer and finally gave in after many Chemothrapy treatment sessions.

Thursday 16th to Sunday 26th October....(Or until beer runs out)
A selection of beers will be on offer at £2.50 per pint

Sometimes our success on the water obscures the fact that the Clubhouse is falling down and we urgently need better facilities, otherwise we will lose these successful and committed oarsmen and scullers.

July’s 35 wins take the total up to 86 pots to date. So far 17 people have signed up for this form of sponsorship, so each pot wins us £17. Do please try to encourage your friends and relatives to sign up—they can share the £1 or set a limit if necessary.

Richard Thiemann reports: Walton girls entered a four for the Groton Schools Challenge Cup at Women’s Henley. Despite a lack of race practice, they put up a good performance against the Australian schools’ cham-pions but were unable to match their pace. The whole crew will be eligible to compete in the event again next year and this year will have provided excellent experi-ence of top level racing.

The Club entered two quads in the Fawley Cup; the first was officially a composite Walton/Molesey crew al-though all were long-standing Walton members. It com-prised Sam Lee-Gill, Angus Groom, James Wedlake and Matt Tatlock; this crew was selected but suffered a crab and hit the booms in its first race.

Brain Martin is again running a course for novices and younger juniors in the mornings of the week after the bank holiday (26th—29th August). There are already over 35 boys and girls signed up, but a few places remain, so if you know any youngsters who have recently started rowing or would like to give it a try, contact Brian Martin. The cost is £65 for non-members or £50 for junior mem-bers of Walton Rowing Club. Brian could also use more adult helpers and coaches.

During June and July Alex Cass has been organising a group of senior novices, who are now looking quite com-petent—and certainly more confident! If you know any adults who would be interested to try their hand—or just to understand what their son or daughter actually does in those hours on the water—do contact Alex at the Club or come down on a Sunday morning.

Match des CadetsMatt Wade and Angus Groom were selected for the GB v France J16 match in 2X after a race off. They won their race at the match in France which GB lost 4 – 9.

Matt Tarrant was one of only nine British medal-winners at the Senior and Junior World Championships in Linz (Austria) this year.

Walton Rowing Club Barbecue Where? At the Clubhouse When? 7.30pm, Saturday 7th June 2008. The barbecue will be held after Walton & Weybridge Regatta with all proceeds going to the building fund.

Exam pressures reduced the squad to four single scullers at WJ15 and WJ14. Despite this they came away with two prizes.

The latest edittion of the 1927 Club newsletter has been released.

To show that we are putting the effort in on the water, you can reward success by pledging £1 for every pot won by a Walton RC member in an open event (ARA or international, regatta or head). A form for this purpose can be downloaded here; after completion, forms should be returned to Mike Hendry or left behind the bar at the Club. Everyone who completes one of these forms will receive an email each month showing the number of wins to date: donors can pay monthly or at the end of the year.

Download the registration form NOW!!

On January 23rd Mike Hendry held a Burns night supper for about 20 of us. A large freshly-shot haggis was brought down from Scotland, along with some of Scotland's finest neeps, tatties and cullen skink. Men and women were both seen wearing kilts, and Robin came equipped with ginger wig and tam o'shanter. After the food, washed down with English Ales and Scotch Whisky, came the entertainment. Ian Robinson looked back to his previous life as a Gulf oil millionaire and read Ozymandias, several other poems were recited both humorous and thought-provoking, and our host gave an impressive recitation of The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Amy Ellis played a snazzy Scottish reel or jig or something on the fiddle. She also won the prize for shortest kilt of the day, and we hope that this particular aspect of the evening will see more enthusiastic and daring competition next year - no, not you Robin.

Thanks to the Hendries and Linda Lee for doing the organising. A great evening was had by all and over £200 was raised for the new boathouse.

SIX  NATIONS  2008

The bar will be open during the following matches for the six nations so why not come along and enjoy the atmosphere and also support the bar

Sunday 3rd February

Scotland  v  France  3.00pm

Sunday 10th February

Italy  v  England  2.30pm

Saturday 8th March

Scotland  v  England  3.15pm

Sunday 9th March

France  v  Italy  3.00pm

Saturday 15th March

England  v  Ireland  3.00pm

Walton Rowing Clubs latest membership fee details are now available. click here to see the full details.

You can download our standing order form by clicking here.

The 100 Club contributed £2,000.00 to Walton Rowing Club in 2007. Let’s do better in 2008!

After Christmas came the Club Triathlon. Now comes the results!

The latest edittion of the 1927 Club newsletter has been released.

This years Christmas Raffle has now been drawn....

Great weather this year for the Weybridge Silver Sculls. Walton Rowing Club cleans up with 11 wins.

See it at the clubhouse on Saturday 20th October Kick Off 8.00pm. Pre Match Food Will Be Available At £3

THERE IS NO FISHY BEER IN OUR BAR ONLY GOOD REAL ALES

Come and join us for our Beer Festival 18th to 28th October. We will have 11 different guest ales for you to try....

Thursday 18th to Sunday 28th October....(Or until beer runs out)
A selection of beers will be on offer at £2.20 per pint

We are hoping that members would sponsor the beer as by this way we can get more funds to go towards the new building.

Latest Fund-raising status July 2008

Sometimes our success on the water obscures the fact that the Clubhouse is falling down and we urgently need better facilities, otherwise we will lose these successful and committed oarsmen and scullers.

The rebuilding fund currently stands at just over £30,000, with a number of pledges and likely donations that could take our internally raised funds up to around £40,000. We are adding to this reserve every month.

We are in discussion with the schools and University that use our facilities, and are also applying to various charita-ble funds that have helped us in the past. We can see realistic prospects that would take us over the £300,000 mark by the spring of 2009.

However the current estimated cost of knocking down the current boathouse and building a new one, as shown on previous newsletters, is around £425,000. So we still have a gap of over £100,000. If you know of any way in which we could close this gap, please contact Robert Jor-dan, Nick de Cata, Steve Trapmore or Mike Hendry.

Walton’s current clubhouse dates back to 1954. While it has been extended and improved many times since then, it is now time to replace it.

An opening burst by Ukraine was soon swallowed up by Matthew and his crewmate Matthew of Great Britain in the junior men’s pair B Final.

Sophie and Carmel representing Walton along with Gabby , Fifi  and coxn Rebecca from Maidenhead, won Gold in WJ15 4X  at the National Championships.

This year we had interest in four crews at Henley Royal plus an eight at Henley Womens.

Josh   and Lewis were in a fancied Fawley Cup quad with two scullers from Marlow RC.

After the recent trials at Nottingham Matt has been selected to represent GB at the Junior World Championships in Beijing next month. Crews have not been finalised yet but it iis expected that he will& compete in the Coxless Pair event.

Josh and Joe have been selected for the GB team at the Coupe Regatta in Varese, Italy ,and Andrew and Dom have been selected for the England team at the Home Countries International in Cork, Ireland.

The opening times are on a Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7.30 to 11.00 also Sundays from 12.00 to 4.00.  We also open the end part of the bar as a tuck shop for soft drinks, sports drinks and confectionery from 9.30 to 10.30.

Great fun day at the races. 16 scratch crews competed for the grand prize, cheered on by other competitors, parents and onlookers! The event was fueled by a fantastic BBQ tended by R. Thompson and consumed by all.

At the Committee Meeting last Monday [05-03-07], it was announced that the Club had achieved CLUBMARK accreditation.

There was then a general enquiry from the floor 'What does that do for the Club?', I attach a download from the ARA website setting out the purposes of the CLUBMARK scheme.

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