Masters Men Archives - Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Boat Club

Hilda Mitchell success/new coached development squad

Many thanks to everyone who helped make Saturday’s Hilda Mitchell Cup such a success. From the catering team, to the umpires, launch drivers, finish judge, bar staff, organisation team liaising with Putney Town and Quintin and the fabulous live music, it was a huge club effort and a great fun day. And we also won the racing. Officially the trophy was jointly won by the “Middlesex bank” of MAA and Quintin over the “Surrey bank” of Putney Town. But MAA also provided more wins (5) than either of the other two. Our Women’s and Mixed over 60 and under 60s [...]

By Luke Howells|2025-05-19T11:17:19+00:00May 19th, 2025|Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Masters women, Racing, Regatta, Senior Men, Senior women, Social|

Quintin Head – two excellent club results

Well done Quintin who yesterday put on a cracking head. From the excellence of the St Paul’s School crew starting no 1 (with MAA members Daisy and Ed Wild’s son Patrick at stroke) to the gallant efforts of the lower starting, rather less polished, crews it was a celebration of all that is good about rowing. A request from Malcolm of Quintin - race numbers from other clubs may have been returned to MAA and left around or outside the club - please can we put any we find on the table in the hall. And congratulations to the two [...]

By Dan George|2025-01-27T10:28:07+00:00January 27th, 2025|Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Senior women|

Successful club weekend and Happy Birthday Nina!

Firstly a very Happy 95th Birthday to club president Nina today. It was fabulous of you to wow the crowds at our regatta on Saturday with your row past with Sarah Vine - in a very challenging blustery wind. Next a big thank you and well done to the many people from the club who helped make Saturday such a club success. And thanks to the visiting clubs who made for such a great atmosphere (including cheering Nina onto the water). One of the highlight results of the day was by Chiswick School - our local school - who boat [...]

By Luke Howells|2024-06-19T10:32:18+00:00June 19th, 2024|Barnes & Mortlake, Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Masters women, Racing|

4 Pairs Head Pennants for MAA

Firstly, many thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday’s race work so well. Races can't run without lots of volunteers and we provided launch drivers and marshals in the form of Luke, Hannah and Chris while Sharika and Barry ran around the beach collecting wellies and numbers and Keith sorted out lots of visiting clubs (proving we can (just) fit 4 trailers on our lawn) and Giselle provided the visitors with refreshments and the sun shone and everyone was friendly and we had some lovely compliments from our visitors. One of these came from the City of Cambridge mixed double who [...]

By Luke Howells|2023-10-09T12:00:26+00:00October 9th, 2023|Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Masters women, Racing, Senior women|

Euro Masters in Munich – MAA medals

Sarah, Lee and Club Captain Hilary went to Munich last week for the European Masters Regatta and raced in a range of composite crews in a mix of sculling, sweep and coxing. Lee won G4x and H4x, Sarah and Hilary won WF8s together and Sarah also won WF4x and WE8 and Hilary won coxing medals in WG4+ and, with Quintin, in F4+ and G4+. It was great fun and excellent to mix with lots of other UK and Irish clubs who had also made the trip over. Next year the World Masters are in Brandenberg near Berlin (this year they [...]

By Luke Howells|2023-08-08T09:40:33+00:00August 8th, 2023|Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Masters women, Racing|

Veterans Head pennant!

Congratulations to the Women’s Masters D4x of Caroline, Anna, Kat and Jo - who won their Veterans' Head pennant last weekend by just over one second from long term rivals Eton Excelsior. Well done also to the G4x crew who swapped from sweep to sculling as their 8 fell victim to injury and illness and came third in their class, to the Women’s B8 who came 5th and to the MAA/TTR G8 who came 4th. Many thanks to all the club members who helped out over the weekend - especially the launch drivers and umpires without who these events could [...]

By Luke Howells|2023-03-25T12:05:56+00:00March 25th, 2023|Captain's Blog, Masters Men, Masters women, Racing|