Sponsored Row 2010

Our Bank Holiday weekend Sponsored Row exceeded our expectations as we managed to raise a massive £1053.80!

Oli Box kicked off proceedings at 9am on Sunday morning and Tim Ogilve finished a fantastic days rowing 12 hours later at 9pm.  We managed to row 158,842 meters in the 12 hours which meant Mr J T Bank won 1st price in Guess the distance, Nick Ogilve won 2nd place and Rob Mayer 3rd. Thank you to everyone who entered Guess the distance and everyone who came along on the day to support us. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

A huge thank you from everyone at Aberporth Rowing Club to everyone who contributed equipment, gifts, prizes and time. Special thanks goes to Sheila Williams mi.Trainer, who supplied us with two concept2 rowing machines for the day and who also helped motivate some of us across the finish line.

Well done all the rowers and all the helpers, fantastic day!!!

Sponsored Row May 2010 Pictures

If you would like to guess the distance there are sponsor forms in the Ship Aberporth.

For full details visit our Events and Whats on in Aberporth page. Come on down for a fun filled afternoon (not for the rowers!)

Everyone at Aberporth rowing club would like to say a huge thank you to Sian, Anthony and Parcllyn Social Club Commitee for the venue and all your help and support for the event.  We would also like to thank all the sponsors for you kind raffle donations.

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Tim and Andy dance off

Keep up to date with when the races are on in 2010. WSRA Fixtures are now live on our WSRA Celtic longboat rowing fixtures page

See our What’s on in Aberporth page for full deails if you fancy a boogie

Four crews all rowed once each up and down the river to complete the distance in a time of 2 hours 8 minutes and 35 seconds. The winner of the £25 Guess the Time competition was Mr David Williams from Tremain with a time of 2 hours 10 minutes. Congratulations to Mr Williams and thank you to everyone who took part.

The club would also like to say a special thank you to Stewart Forsyth & Helen Young for providing the support boat for the event.

Vice Chairman Andy Mayer presents Dai Williams with £25 for winning guess the time.

For full details visit our Aberporth Events & What’s on page

For your “Guess the time” sponsorship forms please contact Lisa or Emma and get raising!

In 1st place were Team Logan winning £25 donated by the Ship Hotel Aberporth.

Chairman Oliver Box presents 1st Prize to Team Logan

In 2nd place were The No Hopers winning a framed panoramic picture of Aberporth bay donated by Gilly Llewelyn & framed by Emme Poole.

Chairman Oliver Box presents 2nd Prize to The No Hopers team

In 3rd place were Team Tyler & Seren winning a lovely bottle of wine donated by Dai Ogilvie.

Chairman Oliver Box presents 3rd Prize to Team Tyler & Seren

As well as the wine donation, Dai Ogilvie also did a fantastic job in planning and setting up the treasure hunt. It was an excellent, thought out course that was thoroughly enjoyed by everybody! So a huge THANK YOU from the club.

Serious stuff! - Dai marking the Treasure Hunt

On behalf of everyone at Aberporth Rowing Club, we would like to thank everybody who donated and helped out on the day to make it such a success, we couldn’t have done it without you!

Here are some more pictures from the day.

Rhiannon's cooking & Tim's bap handling went down a storm

Waiting for treasure hunters to return. Stalls in full operation!

Eyes wide shut - One of many fantastic face paintings by Emma Poole