CHRISTCHURCH REGATTA. Saturday 7th June 2025. (Two boat racing)

CHRISTCHURCH REGATTA. Saturday 17th June 2025. (Two boat racing)

Five Coxed Fours crews from Wightlink sponsored Ryde Rowing Club competed at the Christchurch Rowing Club Regatta on the River Stour on Saturday (7th June). Christchurch Regatta is limited to coxed fours events and can only support two boat racing on the narrow river so the fours crews have to fight their way through a number of rounds to reach the two boat finals.

The outstanding performance of the day for the Ryde Club came from their Open Junior Senior Four of Isaac Gibson, Joe Roberts, Paddy Kearney and Charlie Watts with Harry Watts coxing who won their semi-final, after the race was stopped and a re-row ordered and went on to win the Final fairly comfortably.

The Clubs Women’s Senior Four of  Lisa Murphy, Maggie Sanderson, Stella Baisley, Mai Read and coxed by Ruby Reed lost out in the Semi-final  the same fate befalling the Clubs Open Coastal Junior Four of Cameron D’Arcy, Ben Robotham, Yogi Ashworth, Lars Groothuis with Mai Read coxing who also lost out in the semi-final of their event.

The Club had two coastal Women’s Junior Fours competing – the B Crew of Demi Cranham-Ede, Carla Jenkins, Maggie Sanderson and Amy Nicholls-Taylor with Ruby Read coxing who lost out in the heat but the A Crew of Abi Locke, Fiona Owen, Alexis Owen and Emily Kellerman also coxed by Ruby Read fought their way through several rounds to reach the final where they were narrowly beaten into 2nd place.