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Loughborough Boat Club Thanks East Midlands Airport for £2000 Grant Loughborough Boat Club (LBC) would like to say a huge thank you to East Midlands Airport for their generous grant of £2000. The grant has contributed towards the purchase of a new lightweight double rowing boat, which will provide a fantastic opportunity for more junior…

First recorded in the UK in 1990, floating pennywort (also known as just ‘pennywort’) was originally introduced as an ornamental plant for garden ponds. It has the ability to grow from even the smallest fragments, which enabled it to enter canals and rivers after being transported or discarded. Floating pennywort is so damaging to native…

With regatta season now fully underway, LBC are enjoying the end (hopefully) of the flooding and are now dealing with the heatwave. Starting with Leicester, we attend multiple regattas throughout the summer season which to date have included Shrewsbury, Peterborough, British Masters, Ironbridge and also representation at Women’s Henley. With crews representing Juniors, seniors and…

Trying something a little different, LBC entered an Octuple (8X+ with far too many blades than seems reasonable) and a mixed quad for Derwent Head. Held on Derwent Water in the Lake District. The legendary Lake District scenery lived up to its reputation with the stunning backdrop of Cat Bells framing the mist rising off…

Despite the winter floods keeping LBC off the water for a good number of sessions this year, a number of crews headed off to Lincoln to take part in Lincoln Head on Sunday 15th March, with several of our Loughborough Students Rowing Club friends joining us, we packed the trailer full of boats. With fingers…

Some of rower’s favourite things are rowing, sunshine and pubs, so when it was suggested LBC combine all three and row to the pub it was an offer we could not refuse. As soon as we had found a spreadsheet large enough to cope with the risk assessment we were underway! The only challenge we…

Burton regatta is one of the closest summer events we race at, and being July we are often blessed with some lovely weather, which tends to temp crews not away on their summer holidays. This year saw a good turn out from LBC with crews competing across the Junior, Senior and Masters squad. Despite appearing…

We are running junior learn to row courses throughout Summer (June – August), held at Loughborough Boat Club, County Bridge, Rempstone Road, Zouch, Hathern, Loughborough, LE12 5JN. On-site parking is available. No prior rowing experience is necessary. The course consists of eight one-hour sessions and costs £40. Sessions are available most evenings on a ‘first…

Henley Women’s Regatta is the premier regatta for women in the United Kingdom. Each year more than 2,000 competitors – at junior, university, club and international levels from all over the UK and across the world, come to race on an iconic stretch of the River Thames. Great to see LBC’s intrepid W4- represent the club…

The British Masters competition at Holme Pierrepoint gives crews the ability to test themselves against high quality opposition from around the country on a ‘side by side’ straight course on a lake. With the tendency to capture any prevailing winds in the region and amplify them, the course can be challenging, and it didn’t hold…