Balmain's rowers win JB Sharp series
9 AUG 10 @ 01:50PM BY MARK GERTSKIS
Members of Balmain Rowing Club after winning the JB Sharp regatta series.
Balmain Rowing Club beat 15 other clubs from across NSW to win the prestigious JB Sharp Memorial Regatta series. Balmain’s rowers scored the greatest number of points during the five regattas of the annual winter competition which culminated at the Leichhardt Rowing Club on August 8. “It was an impressive sight to see a field of 10 men’s eights contesting the finale to the series,” regatta convenor Terry Maher said. “Balmain got away to an early lead in the point score however Mosman came home with a determined finish to nearly take them at the post.”
Young Balmain rower brings back silverware
23 JUL 10 @ 01:18PM BY MARK GERTSKIS
Balmain Rowing Club's James Waldersee.
Three years after first putting oar to water, Balmain Rowing Club’s James Waldersee has come back with a silver medal from this year’s Australian Youth Cup championships.
Representing NSW for the first time, the 18-year-old university student was part of the men’s coxed eight that came second at the eight-team competition for young rowers held earlier this month at Penrith Lakes.
The only rower to hail from the Balmain club, Waldersee was a member of a NSW team that came overall second in the standings behind runaway winners, New Zealand.
The Blues also took the honour of pipping last year’s champions and perennial rivals Queensland by one point.
“My earliest memory of rowing is my Year 6 teacher raving on about how enjoyable it was,” he said.
See the full article in context at the Village VoiceBalmain rowers win silver, bronze at the Tricketts
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5 MAY 10 @ 10:00AM
BY MARK GERTSKIS
Balmain Rowing Club's Lucy Blakemore, Renate Ijpma, Anna Bauweraerts and Sheila Donnelly, who came equal third in the Trickett Championships.
A crew from the Balmain Rowing Club survived a neck-and-neck tussle to take out the silver medal at the Edward Trickett Championships last month.
The Men’s B Grade Quad Scull came in second place by just 0.03 seconds in the regatta, which took place at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith.
With eventual race winners Mosman already three boat lengths in front halfway through the race, it was left to crews from Balmain and Macquarie University to battle it out for second.
Made up of Josh Bray, Brett Fountain, James Waldersee and club captain Liam James, the Balmain scull was two-thirds of a boat length in front of the students after 1000m. With 150m to go, however, Macquarie edged ahead and only a powerful sprint from Balmain ensured they came in second.
See the full article in context at the Village VoiceFun, exercise and relaxation all in a row
1 MAY 09 @ 10:00AM BY HANNAH PARKES
Hamina, me, Katrina, Liam and Lisa after our Learn to Row session.
Not being blessed with the greatest co-ordination or sporting prowess, I was a tad anxious when Balmain Rowing Club invited me to take part in its Learn to Row program last month.
Surely this is only a sport for really accomplished athletes?
It took about half an hour out on the water one rainy Sunday morning to realise how wrong I was.
Yes, rowers are passionate, fit, and co-ordinated, but at Learn to Row, with patient teaching, anyone can do it.
See the full article in context at the Village VoiceThe Rowing Tourist: Rowing in Sydney, AustraliaMon, 01/15/2007 - 11:00pm
Imagine the opportunity to row ten to twelve months of the year! Now imagine the opportunity to row out of a well appointed club with a bar and change room with a lovely harbour view within a few kilometres of downtown. Now imagine the opportunity to row in one of the world’s great and most attractive harbour settings, in one of the world’s temperate climates while the rest of Canada froze. Imagine that rowing experience followed by a short stroll to a delicious breakfast of caffe latte, eggs and smoked salmon in a breezy open restaurant facing onto the high street of a fashionable inner-city suburb. Resisting this temptation was the dilemma I faced while visiting with relations in Sydney, Australia, in December 2005.
My wife is a beautiful born-Sydneysider who has lived in Canada for almost twenty years. She claims to prefer Toronto because Sydney is “too hot”, but I have always suspected that it is simply her independent and intrepid Aussie nature that first inspired her to depart her hometown. In seemingly everything except the broad twang of her accent, she has become the consummate Canadian – relishing all four seasons, even if it means a circumscribed summer. And despite having been raised in a climate where winter clothing entailed nothing heavier than a blazer, she enjoys ski-ing and has learned to make the best of the long, slushy Toronto winters.
However her stories of extended Christmas vacations spent camping at the ocean had become a guilty pleasure for me. And I often detected a note of ambivalence undermining the blunt certainty of her declarations which might otherwise have convinced me that life in Sydney was indeed sweltering, insular, diminished and tedious...
See the full article in context at hanlanboatclub.ca© Brian Singleton, 2007
