After their convincing win at the GB trials, our J16 double scull went to the GB-France match full of confidence. Coach Ken Roberts main concern was the possibility of rough water on the Docklands Regatta course affecting their speed. However, race day saw near-perfect conditions and the boys stamped their authority on the race from the start and never looked back, recording a comfortable victory in their first international race. Their victory also helped the GB team win the overall match by 7 races to 6.

This very talented crew completed a rare "triple" this week by adding the British Championship title to their wins at National Schools and GB-France.

The club has has had its best Henley for many years with three crews in the Regatta proper. The ‘A’ Fawley quad of Sam and Oli, Harry and Elliot was selected, but the ‘B’ crew of Callum, Andrew, Morgan and Sam Mottram (all J16s) had to beat 60 other quads just to qualify! They put up a very mature performance but were beaten by Molesey on Thursday.

Captain Neil West and his son Stuart also had to qualify for the Silver Goblets, and had a tight race against a Bris-tol Ariel crew on Thursday, never really getting clear wa-ter. But on Friday they came up against GB pair Reed and Hodge, who beat the Barrier record.

The ‘A’ Fawley crew won fairly comfortably on Friday (having had a bye through the first round), but followed this up with two excellent races on Saturday against old rivals Westminster and Wm Borlase; the semi-final saw both crews winding the rating up into the 40s as they approached the line, with Walton winning by half a length. On Sunday, however, they were outgunned by a powerful and very mature Sydney Rowing Club quad. It was nonetheless a remarkable achievement for a crew including two sixteen-year-olds and one fifteen-year-old.

Morgan Bolding and Elliot Tarrant have been selected as the J16 double for the Anglo-French match next Sunday (July 10th) at Docklands—congratulations to them.

There will be an end of season party and barbeque at the boathouse on Saturday 23rd July starting at 1:00 pm

All welcome

A very hot and humid day at Egham saw two wins for the boys and two for the girls. Ross Henderson, Will Johnston, Niall O’Callaghan and Jordan Piddlesden, coxed by May Byworth won J14B quads, while James Williamson worked his way through four rounds to win the J14 singles quite convincingly. Katy and Nina Giambrone,Tilly Catlin, Megan Houska, and Millie Wills won the WJ14 event, while Katie Giambrone had to beat clubmate Tilly Catlin to win the final of WJ13 singles.

Several other Walton crews put in excellent performances and we had three verdicts of less than a length against us - they will be back in action at Kingston a couple of weeks’ time to seek revenge …