Durham Amateur Rowing Club

The 2026 Long Distance Sculling Series (LDS) run by the Northern Rowing Council takes place at different locations in the Northern Region over 6 consecutive Saturdays, starting with South Hylton on October 3rd and culminating with Durham LDS on November 7th.

Four of the rounds combine with a separate Small Boats Head on the same day organised by the host club.

Entries for each round open on Sunday 3 weeks prior to the round. Entries for South Hylton LDS therefore open on Sunday, September 13th.

For full details see the poster and other information at https://www.nerowing.com/lds2026.html

Well done to Scared of the DARC (Jill, Liz, Julie, Manush and cox Daniel) on winning all 4 races to take victory on the day in the penultimate round of the 2026 Sunday League at Tyne United!
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Here are the results from the weekend's Sunday League sweep event at Tyne United RC, to whom many thanks for hosting. Luckily for us the very heavy rain stopped just on cue at 12 noon and we stayed warm and dry for the rest of the day. The results indicate a very competitive final round at Tyne ARC on 4 October, when we are back to back to sculling splash 'n' dash. Go to www.nerowing.com/tyneunited2026.html for more info on the results or click on the image here.

Durham ARC Masters Women have 6 entries in the 2026 World Masters Regatta held over 5 days between September 9th and 13th at Lake Bled, Slovenia in what is set to become the largest rowing regatta ever staged, with over 4700 athletes from 51 countries so far entered.

Entries on Wednesday are -
Kate Sowden and Becky Chilcott in Women's MasC 2- Race 1068 at 10.51

Kate Sowden, Heather Arrowsmith-Tosley, Becky Chilcott and Fe Ashton in Women's MasB 4x- Race 1104 at 12.46

Kate Sowden, Heather Arrowsmith-Tosley, Becky Chilcott and Fe Ashton in Women's MasA 4x- Race 1146 at 14.46

The Wednesday start list is athttps://wrmr2026.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Startlist-eta-F___races-1001-1220.pdf

Entries on Friday are -
Kate Sowden and Becky Chilcott in Women's MasB 2- Race 3002 at 07.34

Heather Arrowsmith-Tosley and Fe Ashton in Women's MasA 2x Race 3071 at 10.59

Kate Sowden and Fe Ashton in Women's MasC 2x Race 3116 at 13.39

The Friday start list is athttps://wrmr2026.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Startlist-eta-F___races-3001-3211.pdf

The draw for mixed races on Sunday will be made later.

Race information for all days is at https://wrmr2026.com/regatta/

Good luck to all taking part.

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World Rowing - 2026 World Rowing Masters Regatta in Bled Set to Become the Biggest Rowing Regatta in History More than 4,700 athletes from 51 countries will race across five days at Lake Bled in what is set to become the largest rowing regatta ever staged.

DARC members were in action last weekend in the 11th Great Tyne Row and at the Scottish Rowing Beach Sprint and Offshore Championships.

This year's Great Tyne Row had a Puffing Billy theme as 25 crews, some in fancy dress, took to the water at Newburn on Sunday for the gruelling 25km voyage to Tynemouth in a mixture of stable quads, coastal skiffs and outrigger canoes.

DARC entered a mixed coxed quad as well as being represented in two other composite quads all of which arrived safely on the beach at Tynemouth. Congratulations to Helen McMillan and Gill Prescott in the composite quad coxed by Dave Green, who won the Catherine Cookson Shield as the fastest Women's Boat.

Information about the Great Tyne Row can be found at https://www.greattynerow.com/

The Scottish Rowing Beach Sprint and Offshore Championships at East Sands Beach, St Andrews on Saturday and Sunday was open to Scottish Rowing and British Rowing members as well as to other visitors, and was a double-header forming the final round of the 2026 Four Nations Coastal Sculling Series, the English Beach Sprint round of which took place at South Shields in May.

DARC was represented by Dyfrig Williams in the Open 1x Beach Sprint, Seren Williams in the Women's under-19 Beach Sprint and Coastal 1x (held over a 4km course), and Seren Williams and Charlotte Foster in the under-19 Women's Coastal 2x.

Congratulations to Seren and Charlotte on winning gold in the Women's U19 Coastal 2x and Seren on winning silver in the Women's U19 Coastal 1x.

Scottish Beach events information is at https://scottish-rowing.org.uk/takingpart/compete/events/calendar/scottish-rowing-beach-sprints-and-offshore-championships, with results from Saturday athttps://scottish-rowing.org.uk/images/documents/SRBSOC26%20Saturday%20Results.V2.pdf
and Sunday athttps://scottish-rowing.org.uk/images/documents/SRBSOC26%20Sunday%20Results.pdf

Coastal Sculling Series updates are at https://www.britishrowing.org/go-rowing/types-of-rowing/coastal-sculling/four-nations-coastal-sculling-series/

Presentations to overall winners in the Coastal Series will be made at the British Rowing Beach Sprint Championships at Bournemouth on September 4-6th.

Many thanks to all those involved in organizing the events and well done to everyone on a successful weekend!

The head racing season is just around the corner, starting with Tyne Single Scullers Head on September 19th (for doubles and pairs as well as singles). Entries are now open. See below and on https://www.newcastlerowing.com/tyne-single-scullers-head for details.

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Entries are now open for the Tyne Single Scullers Head!

Join us on Saturday 19th September 2026 for an exciting day of racing on the Tyne, from Blaydon to Newburn (3000m).

Race Details:
- 4 Divisions: 9:00am, 11:00am, 1:00pm & 3:00pm
- Events for single & double sculls, and pairs!

Division Breakdown:
- Division 1: Senior Open & Masters Women
- Division 2: Senior Women & Masters Open
- Division 3: Junior Open & Women (J13 to 18)
- Division 4: Doubles (all ages) & Pairs (J15 & above)

Key Info:
- Entry Fee: £18 per seat
- Close of Entries: 11:59pm, Wed 3rd Sept 2025
- Draw Published: 8pm, Wed 10th Sept 2024

Enter via BROE only. For more details and to register, visit the newcastle rowing website or email [email protected].

Start off the new season with some fun racing and enter now!

🥈 QUINN MOSLEY TAKES SILVER ON THE WORLD STAGE 🇬🇧

You better believe the whole club was cheering for Quinn and doubles partner Alfie this morning at the U19 World Championships in Bulgaria!

We are all so proud of you Quinn 💙

Congratulations! 🔥

Now it's our turn to thank you for being an absolute pleasure over the years... from little shy Quinn, to the glue that holds us all together up north 🥲

We are so proud of your achievements over the years 🙌🔥

Show them what you're made of fella, we all wish you the very best of luck in Bulgaria, the world awaits 👀 🍀

💙💛

The proud man from Durham ARC.

2025: GB v France 🇫🇷
2026: GB v the world 🌎

Hear from Quinn Mosley about his rowing journey as he gets ready to race in Plovdiv, Bulgaria at the U19 World Rowing Championships 🏁

Read more 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2026/08/im-very-proud-of-being-from-the-north-east-quinn-mosley-ready-to-take-on-the-world/

DARC de Triomphe marked their first Sunday League appearance in fabulous fashion with four wins from four races today at Talkin Tarn to move up the order in the Open division.

Results are at https://www.nerowing.com/tarn2026.html

The next round is a sweep-oar event at Tyne United on September 6th.

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Great day's rowing at Tarn in the Sunday League this afternoon, 2 Aug 26. And wonderful weather and water conditions. Some crews lower down the tables at the start of the day pulled out great performances and moved up. Those in the top two in both Open and Women's leagues just hung on to their places, but others not now far behind. Sweep at Tyne United in the next round! Click on image for full results.

🇬🇧 British Rowing Coastal Championships 2026 🇬🇧

After a long weekend in Nottingham Seren and Charlotte extended their season for another weekend of rowing at Whiby taking part in the Coastal Championships last week.

Seren and Charlotte combined to win GOLD 🥇 in the Women's Under 19 2x followed by Seren winning SILVER 🥈in Women's Under 19 1x!

Huge congratulations to both! 🎊

Full results can be found below ⬇️

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Saturday provided medal successes at the British Rowing Club Championships -
Huge congratulations to Aidan Lawlor on taking first place in time trial, semi-final and A final to win the gold medal in the J16 1x.
https://rowresults.co.uk:8031/results/brcc26/Race171.pdf

Matthew Wheeler finished 38th in the J16 1x time trial.

Seren Williams was 2nd in the E final of WJ18 1x for 26th place overall.
https://rowresults.co.uk:8031/results/brcc26/Race148.pdf

In the WJ16 2x Sascha Wang (Durham) and Scarlett Wilkinson (Infinity) were 5th in the time trial and 6th in the A final.
https://rowresults.co.uk:8031/results/brcc26/Race188.pdf

The composite Mixed Championship 8+ finished 2nd in the time trial and 3rd in the A final to secure the bronze medal.
https://rowresults.co.uk:8031/results/brcc26/Race161.pdf

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Well done everyone. Racing continues on Sunday.