Barnes & Mortlake Regatta
The 2026 Barnes & Mortlake Regatta is now over: thank you to everyone who competed, who coached the competitors, who supported the competitors and, very importantly, volunteered their time to support the regatta and get it running on what was, for the organising committee, a very challenging day, given the discovery of the passing of the regatta’s secretary, Noel Durkin, on the morning of the regatta.
We were heavily over-subscribed, having received 280 entries, and therefore a lot of entries were rejected, in accordance with our criteria below. We’re sorry if you did not get to race.
In a first for the regatta, we were able to livestream the event: for those that would like to relive any part of the day please visit https://www.youtube.com/live/UlGzsZUjEls
The 2027 regatta is scheduled for Saturday June 12th: we look forward to seeing you there.
The poster for the regatta is available here, where you will find contact information should you need it.
We can be followed on X (Twitter): https://x.com/bm_regatta.
If the regatta is over-subscribed what process will be used to decide which entries to accept and which to reject?
We recognise that there are only so many hours in the day that people want to go racing, and also to volunteer to support and run the regatta. In the event of the regatta being oversubscribed we will reduce the number of entries down to a number that will produce the quantity of races that will fit into this time frame. Our aim is to try and give as many people as possible an opportunity to race and therefore our priority order for choosing what to accept and what to reject will be as follows:
- Reject entries in events that only have one, two or three entries.
- Reject entries from single scullers that have doubled-up into crew boats (where the crew boat is still in a viable event).
- Reject doubled-up entries prioritising larger boat classes over smaller boat classes.
- Progressively reject events starting with the smallest boat class, ie reject 1x, then 2x/- etc. Please note that in the last few years we have ended up with very few single sculling events due to over-subscription.
2026 regatta documentation
- Instructions for competitors
- Course map (flood tide – morning racing)
- Course map (ebb tide – afternoon racing)
- Safety plan
- A & E plan
- Welfare plan
- Risk assessment
Previous years’ results:
2021: the regatta was run as a combined event with Borne at Chiswick Bridge Regatta. There was thunder and lightning during the afternoon and racing was suspended for a prolonged period of time causing some events to being scratched by the organisers. These events are shown as struck through in the results.
2020: the regatta did not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2013 (missing – sorry)