150 Club Talk and Fish & Chips event planned for Thursday, 27th August - CANCELLED.

Unfortunately in the current circumstances the Club had decided that it has no choice but to cancel the 150 Club Talk and Fish & Chips event planned for Thursday, 27th August - which was going to be by  –  

Barry Groves – ‘Joe’ Carstairs – the fastest woman on water and Queen of Whale Cay.    

We would hope to reschedule this talk to later in the year or next year when the present crisis had died down. 

However I thought I would just share with you all our current plans regarding resuming the talks/fish & Chip Supper's once the restrictions end.

The Talks/Fish & Chip Suppers in September has not yet been cancelled - although we think it highly likely that it will be - we will confirm by EMail nearer the date.

The September Talk is scheduled to be - 

Thursday 24th September – Philip Norman – The Skaters’ Waltz and Babycham Night – Philip is also the biographer of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and a new biography of Jimi Hendrix to come out in September 2020. 

We have rescheduled the talks from October, in the hope that they will go ahead as follows - we will confirm by EMail nearer the date. 

Ryde Rowing Club ‘150 Club’ Talks & Fish & Chip Suppers 2020

Here’s our rescheduled list due to Covid-19 and hoping we can continue our talks from October.

Thursday 29th October – Stuart Bennett – Chile to Bolivia – overland trip up into the high Andes

Thursday 26th November – Marc Earp – Ryde 200 years, ‘From smugglers haunt to largest town’.

We have also been working on the Talks and Fish & Chip for next year - when we assume the current restrictions will have been lifted.

Our current plans are -

List of speakers for 2021 - all subject to change.

Thursday 25th February – Phillip Norman – The Skaters’ Waltz and Babycham Night – Phillip is also the biographer of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and a new biography of Jimi Hendrix to come out in September 2020

Thursday 25th March – Adrian Searle – Churchill’s last wartime secret

Thursday 29th April – TBA.

Thursday 27th May – Kevin Shaw – The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson’s Poem and the Crimean War

Thursday 24th June – Stuart Bennett – Chile to Bolivia – overland trip up into the high Andes

Thursday 29th July – Barry Groves – ‘Joe’ Carstairs – the fastest woman on water and Queen of Whale Cay

Thursday 19th August (week earlier do to Ryde Carnival) – Martin Woodward -The tragic sinking of the SS Mendi’ off the Isle of Wight in 1917

Thursday 30th September – Mark McNeill – Classic Boat Museum

Thursday 28th October – Tracey Dove – The Wildheart Trust – Home of the IW Zoo. TBC.

Thursday 25th November -  Marc Earp – Ryde 200 years, ‘From smugglers haunt to largest town.’