Note: All Ryde R. C. Round the Island Rows have completed a full circumnavigation, going around the Needles and not “threading” them, as some others have.
Ryde Rowing Club Round the Island Rowing SAFETY PROTOCOL can be viewed here.
A History of Rowing Around the Isle of Wight by Ryde Rowing Club Crews and Scullers can be found HERE in pdf format.
A Crew completed a Round the Island Row in 1880 - no details are available.
Date: 25th August, 1901.
Time: 9 hours 20 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Weeks, Chiverton, Coombes, Woods, Copeland.
Four rowed while one coxed, changed places. Stops were made at Ventnor and Yarmouth.
Date: 8th September, 1928.
Time: 9 hours 15 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Holness, Rae, Fripp, Strang, Fawdrey, Norman.
Four rowed, one coxed, one rested, changed places.
Date: 14th August, 1932.
Time: 8 hours 40 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Holness, Coombes, Column, Pitt, Westwood.
Four rowed, one coxed, changed places.
Date: 23rd August, 1936.
Time: 10 hours 43 minutes.
Boat: Coastal Fixed Seat Pair.
Crew: Austin & Jaye.
Both rowed all the way.
Date: 28th August, 1949.
Boats: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
First Crew Time: 8 hours 21 minutes.
First Crew: Holness, Stafford, Bell, Howe, Fountaine.
Boats: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Second Crew Time: 9 hours 58 minutes.
Second Crew: Zink, Lord, Sim, Plumley, Hill.
In both cases four rowed, one coxed and they changed places.
Date: 27th September, 1964.
Time: 8 hours 38 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Dear, New, Sexton, Tucker, Webber.
Four rowed, one coxed, changed places.
Date: 11th August, 1965.
Time: 8 hours 6 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Dear, New, Sexton, Terry, Webber.
Four rowed, one coxed, changed places.
Date: 28th August, 1979.
Time: 8 hours 17 minutes.
Boat: Sliding Seat Coastal Coxed Four (Jean).
Crew: Bull (S), Haward, Young, Adams, Reeve (Cox).
First round the island row in a sliding seat "fine" coastal coxed four.
Four rowed, one coxed, no changes.
Date: 16th August, 1995.
Time: 7 hours 57 minutes.
Boat: Sliding Seat Coastal Coxed Four.
Crew: Dear (S), Cook, Hayles, Grundy, Dear (H) (Cox).
Coastal sliding seat coxed four record row and coxed four record row.
Four rowed, one coxed, no changes.
Date: 19th June, 1999.
Time: 10 hours 20 minutes.
Boat: Four Oared Coastal (Solent) Galley.
Crew: Hanks, Hersey-Page, West, Orchard, Woods, Hickman (Cox).
First round the island row by an all ladies crew.
Four rowed, one coxed, rowers changed places.
Date: 19th August, 2003.
Time: 9 hours 30 minutes.
Boat: Sliding Seat Coastal Coxed Four (Dionne).
Crew: Bottrell, Bull (M), Johnson, Salter, Maitland (Cox).
Four rowed, one coxed, no changes.
Date: 3rd October, 2005.
Time: 7 hours 53 minutes.
Boat: Sliding Seat Coastal Single Scull.
Sculler: Nick Pike.
First and fastest in a coastal single scull.
Date: 26th September, 2009.
Time: 7 hours 4 minutes.
Boat: Sliding Seat Coastal Coxless Quad (Pat).
Crew: Pike, Hayden, Page, Jenner.
First in a coastal coxless quad.
Record time for a four and record time for Ryde Rowing Club.
Four Sculled, no changes.
