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A tribute to the life of Ken Williams – MAABC Member and Vice President

On Saturday 14th April MAABC lost one of its most valued and popular members when Ken Williams died just before his 80th birthday. Ken became part of MAABC when it moved to the current boathouse 20 years ago. At the time Ken was a member of Horseferry Rowing Club, the previous owners, and the sale allowed Horseferry members to use the facilities alongside MAABC. However, after a short period Ken became a full member of MAABC. Ken took up rowing about 60 years ago when he joined Horseferry Rowing Club, a club he remained with for the next 40 years [...]

By Luke Howells|2019-07-22T13:36:34+00:00May 8th, 2018|Captain's Blog|

Rowing Art Exhibition

Interested in Rowing Art? Annabel Eyres (international oarswoman, Oxford Blue and former designer for Rock The Boat) is exhibiting at Riverside Gallery & Framing in Barnes. Please see the flyer for more information. Riverside flyer Riverside Gallery flyer bk

By Luke Howells|2018-03-02T18:14:06+00:00March 2nd, 2018|Captain's Blog|

MAABC Success at the Indoor Rowing Championships

Captain Nicola Dale writes that two members of MAABC won at the British Indoor Rowing Championships last Saturday with a third member also doing particularly well! Kaila Engelsman won the Open Women's event in a cracking time of 7:01.6 even writing this makes me feel exhausted. We are incredibly proud of this and perhaps we should consider naming one of the new ergos after Kaila. There is an excellent article on Kaila's success and her ambitions on the WeRow Life website. Additionally Jennifer Aitken came in 4th which was a superb effort with a time 7:19.1 - and thirdly Natalie [...]

By Luke Howells|2019-07-22T13:36:34+00:00December 13th, 2017|Captain's Blog, Racing, Senior women|

Captain’s February Blog

After a bit of time off the air waves as we had Christmas and New Year and horrible water. However painful it must be for all of you, I am back with my ramblings and observations as there is much activity going on at MAABC including some news about mixed crew racing - firstly, you may have noticed that we are continuing to tidy up the boating area and fleet, we have said goodbye to the Phoebe Mason and that has gone to Putney High School – we will be focusing on the outside racks to tidy up the boats. [...]

By Luke Howells|2019-07-22T13:36:35+00:00February 23rd, 2017|Captain's Blog|

Captain’s Blog – Nov 16

Once again hello to you all – there is a lot of news re events both on our beloved stretch of water with some international competition and lastly I wanted to mention that I am hearing the peal of wedding bells! Here is Geoffrey’s Report on the Silver Skiff, Turin Sunday 13th November – hopefully we will get some photographs onto the web site. This event is held annually on the River Po over an 11km course up round a buoy and back with start and finish in the same place. One of the advantages of this is that [...]

By Luke Howells|2019-07-22T13:36:36+00:00December 8th, 2016|Captain's Blog|

Autumn Notes September 26th

I do hope you all had a good weekend. I thought I would share some jottings about our first foray on the Autumn Sculling Heads circuit – first of all thanks to all who participated in boat loading and looking after our valuable kit! The most important aspect of travelling to events. Please acknowledge the time that Merv spent driving he did not leave the head course until at least 5 pm and I would like to thank him personally on behalf of us all. We cannot compete or be prepared for these events without enormous back up whether its [...]

By Luke Howells|2019-07-22T13:36:36+00:00September 26th, 2016|Captain's Blog|

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