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AN UPDATE ON THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF NUBC
Welcome back, hope everyone
enjoyed their break and were spoilt
rotten by dear old Santa. It’s time
now to get excited for this New
Year: the upcoming regattas, the
beginning of a new semester and
our novice intake. The break was an
eventful time for the club with a day
trip to Nelson Bay and achieving
some great results at the Taree
Summer Regatta.
DAY AT THE BAY
The NUBC annual ‘day at the bay’ was
held late last year on Saturday 15th
December. The mini road trip pulled into
Shoal Bay where the light clouds did little
to prevent our members from diving into
the
UPCOMING EVENTS
RNSW Small Boats Regatta: 2nd
February, 2013, SIRC
NGS Regatta: 9th February, 2013,
Berry Park
Endeavour Regatta: 10th
February, 2013, Berry Park
NSW Rowing Championships:
15th-17th February, 2013, SIRC
the beautiful waters and starting up a
game of beach volleyball. Then due to
a slightly worrying addiction to
exercise and a club tradition we
walked up Mount Tomaree where we
were greeted with spectacular views
of Port Stephans, as well as sore calf
muscles. Our child at heart came out
to play, with a swim at Fingal Bay and
attempt to use the kids play
equipment. On the trip home we made
a stop at Murray’s Brewery, an
absolute necessity, where we were
able to sample some delicious local
brews. Such a fabulous day thanks to
everyone who turned up and made it
so fun.
TAREE SUMMER REGATTA
NUBC had a huge weekend over the 18th,
19th and 20th of January at the Taree
Summer Regatta on the Manning River. In
most events that we entered our athletes
were to be seen in the top 3 placings, a
remarkable effort especially for our novice
rowers. Our longstanding relationship
with the politically incorrect black boy
tree motel continued, but after the
extreme heat that caused many races on
the Friday to be cancelled the motel’s pool
was rarely used over the weekend as a
greatly appreciated cool change came
through.
Racing highlights over the weekend
included; third and second place for our D
grade men’s doubles: Kevin Shaw Taylor
and Aaron McGowan, and Matt Rimington
and Ken Boldery respectively. Bethany
Kapira and Conrad Bond both scored a
second place in the women’s and men’s B
grade single sculls. An awesome second
place was taken by Georgina Shafran and
Emily Wade in the women’s D grade
double scull. Jason Nissen took out
first place in a composite eight with
Endeavour in the men’s masters division.
Bethany Kapira along with her Penrith
composite crew took first place in the
women’s masters quad scull.
Our men’s D grade quad of Chris Maytom, Matt Rimington, Kevin Shaw-Taylor and Ken Boldery scored first place in an exciting finish. Following this achievement James Elliot and Damon Mills took out first place in the men’s C grade pair, beating the chasing crew from Glebe by two seconds. Jack Hanley fought for second place in the men’s lightweight single, coming second by 14 seconds to Dean Robinson, of Sydney, and beating friendly rival James Waldersee, of Balmain, by two seconds. All three athletes are trialing for the State lightweight four to compete at the 2013 National Championships. A second place by 14 seconds to Sydney rowing club was also achieved by our women’s B grade quad scull: Erin Gardiner, Pru Dwyer, Merran Holmes and Jessica Richardson. Also achieving seconds were our women’s open four and our men’s D four, congratulations to Bronwyn Flowers, Caroline Geoghegan, Maddy Dupont and Erin Gardiner, and Aaron McGowan, Ken Boldery, Anthony Mujic and Tom Marshall. Both our men’s D and B grade eights performed competitively achieving second places. Chris Maytom and Jack Hanley took out first place in the men’s lightweight double scull and taking out an eight second margin over second place. Finishing up the day our women’s fours took out first and third
place in the C grade coxed four division with Prudence Dwyer, Merran Holmes, Maddy Dupont and Erin Gardiner taking home the gold. It was a great weekend and congratulations to all our athletes on such a mighty effort
NSW INTERSTATE TEAM TRIALS On Sunday the 3rd of January Jack Hanley and Jessica Richardson will trial for their place in the NSW Team to Represent the state at the 2013 Australian Championships. GOOD LUCK and BEST WISHES from NUBC!!