Out before six.
A rowing club on two miles of flat water. Learn to row in eight weeks, or join with a crew and be on the water on Tuesday.
Come and lookNobody here started able.
Every member came through the same eight week course, including the ones who now go to Henley. The first two weeks are in a boat that cannot tip over, which is less humiliating than it sounds.
- Eight weeks, one evening a week
- Boats, blades and a coach found
- No previous anything required
The water is the point.
Ninety minutes on flat water before the town is awake, and then you go to work. Most people join to get fit and stay for the hour before the day starts.
05:40the first boat off the stage, most mornings
It is a club, not a gym.
Somebody has to help carry the boat, put the blades away and take a turn in the launch. That is the deal and it is the reason it costs what it does.
Come and look
Learn to row
Eight weeks, Tuesday evenings, in a group of six with one coach. At the end of it you can take a boat out on your own, which is the only qualification we recognise.
Join as a rower
If you have rowed before, come down on a Saturday and go out with whoever is short. There is no trial and no committee. Somebody will put you in a boat.
Sixteen frames of the hour you are getting up for.
From the last of the dark to full light, which is about how long an outing takes. The boats are back on the rack before most people have had breakfast.
What a club actually is.
None of this is on a wall anywhere, but it is all true and it is what you are joining.
Come and look.
Tell us whether you have rowed before and which mornings you could actually make. We will tell you when the next course starts, or which crew is short this week.