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Tyne Amateur Rowing Club sits on the River Tyne at Newburn, about 7 miles west of Newcastle city centre. We have the longest and arguably best stretch of river for rowing in the north of England. And we have a new clubhouse with excellent indoor facilities. See our Welcome page for more details.
The premier winter student rowing competition came to the Tyne on Sunday 23 February. It should have run on Saturday, the day before, as well but an adverse weather forecast intervened. So the top crews were moved from Sat to Sun and the beginners got the chop! Conditions on Sunday were still pretty tricky, especially in the afternoon, but wind and waves did not defeat the crews and they battled on. Division 1 went as planned in pretty calm conditions.
A rather crowded start marshalling area in Div 2 at Scotswood - click for larger version
But Division 2 turned a bit rough and the start was brought upstream a bit to avoid choppy water for marshalling at Derwenthaugh. Apart from this it ran as planned - but it was hard work for the crews rowing back to Newburn against a strong west wind. Just one boat did not finish (or start) due to getting a rigger entangled with a post near the shore and being swamped during the attempted rescue. Newcastle University BC turned up trumps and won both Women's and Men's Victor Ludorum prizes.
Results by crew are at https://bucsrowing.org.uk/head20.
But Division 2 turned a bit rough and the start was brought upstream a bit to avoid choppy water for marshalling at Derwenthaugh. Apart from this it ran as planned - but it was hard work for the crews rowing back to Newburn against a strong west wind. Just one boat did not finish (or start) due to getting a rigger entangled with a post near the shore and being swamped during the attempted rescue. Newcastle University BC turned up trumps and won both Women's and Men's Victor Ludorum prizes.
Results by crew are at https://bucsrowing.org.uk/head20.
Tide times at North Shields in Greenwich Mean Time for the next three months to the end of April 2020 are shown below (click each table for a larger version). Add 20 minutes for Newburn. And from April onwards add another hour to get BST. You can download the full Port of Tyne 2020 tide tables from which these are taken as pdfs from their resources page. See also our tides page and a useful tide times generator.
