| Ramsey Island Sunday 17th Sept 2017
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Sunday 17th September 2017
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Ramsey Island Challenge Sunday 17th Sept 2017 Finally, on the 4th attempt this year … the race is ON!!!!!
A few last minute crew changes following delay of race from Saturday to Sunday, but two excited crews assembled ready for the challenge ahead
Nauti Buoy Cox Jim, Rod, Rachel, Libby & Gareth
Oarsome Cox Nick, Gabi, Steve, Marja & Mel
Some pre-...
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| GRR 9th Sept 2017
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Saturday 9th September 2017
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30th Great River Race Saturday 9th September 2017 It was always going to be difficult to match the GRR of 2016, where we had 4 boats and numerous family and friends to support us as for once the weekend did not clash with the Saundersfoot Tri and Iron Man.
2017 clashed again so we yoyo’d with numbers of members who were able to come …. after a great deal of persuasion, a little bribery and a call out to the ‘pirate...
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| Dinas Head 22nd July 2017
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Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Dinas Head Challenge Race 8 Miles Saturday 22nd July 2017
Men's Crew – ROK
Cox - Andy “Stealth” Richards
Stroker – Simo “The Chair” Collings
No.2 – Gareth “ The AA” Boz
No.3 – Rodderick “The Cross Dresser” Haynes
Bow – Graham “The Humph “Humphreys
Women`s Crew – Nauti Buoy
Cox – Gabi “The Kitten” Slaughter
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| Aberporth 9th July 2017
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Sunday 9th July 2017
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Aberporth Sunday 9th July 2017 Well it has to be said I did not think a week before the race we would have more than just one mixed team, but with a little persuasion and encouragement (some would call it nagging!) we fielded a ladies team and men’s team and two mixed tea...
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| Towy Boathouse Challenge 24th June 2017
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Saturday 24th June 2017
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Towy Boathouse Challenge 24th June 2017 A weird weekend, usually well supported by Wisemans but with a lot of people away we only had one boat going, a double late drop out meant a last minute call to other clubs to see if we could fill the boat, thankfully Jane and Dom from Aberaron were free, so we hitched up and headed off.
Our first obstacle, apart from the endless tourists who hav...
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| Llanion 11th June 2017
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Sunday 11th June 2017
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Llanion Sunday 11th June 2017 A grand total of sixteen rowers turned up at a very windy, and sometimes wet, Llanion League Race, a day that proved to be very successful for Wiseman’s Bridge Rowing Club, with the club winning seven raffle prizes on the day, the top prize being a box of chocolates, which was duly shared between club members.
Special thanks need to go to Nick and Andy who turned up and assisted with just coxi...
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| Wreck Race 22nd April 2017
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Saturday 22nd April 2017
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PYC Wreck Race Saturday 22nd April 2017
The weather was kind this year as the crews assembled for the fourth PYC Wreck Race, a 15.5km race around the wreck sites on the Cleddau, the sun was shinning, although there was a strong breeze from the north.
A challenging start to the race calendar, which this year saw only one boat from Wiseman’s, however what a boat it was, a mixed crew that contained the power of ...
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| Great River Race 3rd Sept 2016
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Saturday 3rd September 2016
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Great London River Race 3rd September 2016 After much planning, prepping, washing of boats and covert fancy dress operations the morning came to set off for London. The journey up the M4 was uneventful although excitement was felt each time a rival club was overtaken with some of us hoping that we would be able to do the same on the water the next day.
The tow trucks made light work of the journey and after a quick stop in Chippenham for their annual "trucker&#...
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| Mumbles 30th July 2016
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Saturday 30th July 2016
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July 30th 2016 Pwll Du 10 mile Challenge Mumbles Saturday 30th July started well. Weather was good, with just a light breeze and a bit of sunshine. Bananaman became Caroline who unfortunately had to look after her poorly mum and couldn’t make it. So crews were ready….
Nauti Buoy and ROK were made ready and it was to be Nauti Buoy’s inaugural outing which the crew was really looking forward to. Di and Simon did a cra...
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| Aberporth 17th July 2016
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Sunday 17th July 2016
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Aberporth 17th July 2016 It was an early and misty start to the day as the Wisemans crews met at the compound to hitch up the boats and head north. Luckily by the time they arrived at Aberporth the sun was breaking through and the mist clearing.
The first race of the day was the ladies, where we entered two teams Bryony, Lois, Sian and Lucy (Llanion) coxed by Owian (Towey), and Libby, Gabi, Caroline and Di coxed by Mark. Of the two t...
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| Llanion 10th July 2016
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Sunday 10th July 2016
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Llanion Sunday 10th July 2016 After much deliberating by the Llanion Warriors, a notice was finally put up on the face book page at 19.30 hrs to confirm the race was going ahead – weather conditions were not predicted as good with wind gusts of up to 30 + mph forecast.
The Wiseman’s crew all met down at the compound for 8.15 am (although Nick was there bright and early before us all as usual) and three boats were towed over to Llanion, ...
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| Castle to Castle 25th June 2016
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Saturday 25th June 2016
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Castle 2 Castle 13mile Challenge Race – 25th June 2016 C2C is an exciting 13 mile race between the two beautiful North Walian castle towns of Beaumaris on Anglesey and Caernarfon on the mainland, with the race following the magnificent Menai Straits taking the crews underneath the iconic Menai suspension bridge and the Britannia rail bridge and through the treacherous “Swellies”.
Our Wiseman`s crew due to towing logistics had managed to arrange the loan of a Cel...
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| Llangrannog 12th June 2016
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Sunday 12th June 2016
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Llangrannog 12th June 2016 - awaiting report & photos
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| Fishguard 15th May 2016
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Sunday 15th May 2016
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Fishguard 15th May 2016
Awaiting report
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| New Quay 8th May 2016
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Sunday 8th May 2016
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New Quay 8th May 2016
Alarm clocks set …. 7am meet at the Bridge
Pesky windy day but very sunny too … there will be some sunburnt bodies tonight!
First off is the Ladies race, we had two boats entered
Ladies coxed by Nick - Nikki, Ellen, Bryony & Nina (slightly younger …superstar newbie no 1!)
Supervets coxed by Jim – Gabi, Libby, Mel (slightly older …. superstar newbie no 2!) & Di
The ladies crew had an easy start, worked really h...
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| THE RETURN OF THE CLEDDAU 12mile Challenge - SATURDAY 23RD APRIL 2016
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Saturday 23rd April 2016
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THE RETURN OF THE CLEDDAU 12mile - SATURDAY 23RD APRIL 2016 CAPTAIN'S LOG STARDATE - Crews turned up early for The Return of The Cleddau, a 12 mile race with a new route for 2016, starting at Neyland with a buoy turn at Black Tar and returning to Neyland. It was going to be a good day, the glorious sunshine was here to grace us at last and all was well...except for Simon's driving, 'Look out for that boat Si!'
We had made it through the coxes ...
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| The Madog Dash from Pwllheli to Porthmadog. Saturday 16th April 2016
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Saturday 16th April 2016
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The Madog Dash from Pwllheli to Porthmadog. Saturday 16th April 2016
Captain's Log
Wisey Crews set off on friday for a weekend of drunken debauchery and a bit of rowing in North Wales, staying at the very pleasant 'Lion Hotel' in Criccieth. After a delicious pre-race meal at 'The Spice Bank' Indian Restaurant, a couple of rowers sloped off to the hotel bar, while everyone else turned in for the night.
Spirits were high on Race Day, weather was glor...
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| PYC Wreck Race Sunday 20th March
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Sunday 20th March 2016
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PYC Wreck Race Sunday 20th March 2016 A slightly grey overcast day saw the gathering of 19 boats and crews for the Wreck Race 15.5km around the wrecks sites of the Milford Haven waterway, now in its 3rd year this is always a challenging start to the season.
Slight prerace concerns as our stroke was a little lost en route and also still quite under the weather with a nasty bout of tonsillitis, but once Brian arrived without her voice we were off.
With pre-race warm u...
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| MONTFORD CHALLENGE RACE (Shropshire) – 12th March 2016
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Saturday 12th March 2016
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MONTFORD CHALLENGE RACE (Shropshire) – 12th March - And so the 2016 Season begins with the first race of the year was the Montford Challenge, a gruelling 11 mile time trial on the River Severn in open countryside from Shrewsbury, rowing upstream to the Montford Bridge, predicted to take between 2-4 hours. The race was hosted by the Shropshire Adventure Rowing club and this was to be the first time they have hosted this event. This was going to be a real tes...
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| Ar Waith Ar Daith - 12th September 2015
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Saturday 12th September 2015
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a Welsh journey of myth and magic
Cardiff bay was the setting for WBRC’s involvement, along with 25 other Celtic crews, for the 10 years celebration ( ar wraith ar daith ) of the Wales Millenium Centre, and being a part of the outdoor Saturday night celebration put on by 'Walk the Plank'
Friday morning a crack swat team of our rowers and towers descended on the capital to begin rehearsals of no less than 5 sessions, with other members travelling up later that day & Saturday...
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| Great London River Race 2015 - Saturday September 12th 2015
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Saturday 12th September 2015
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Great London River Race 2015 - Saturday September 12th 2015 - It was hard to believe that a year had passed since the 2014 GRR and this year, was going to be even harder to organise then previous years due to the participation of some of the Wiseman`s boats and club members at the “Ar Waith Ar Daith” in Cardiff bay.
However, Nikki used her usual charm and skills of persuasion and Fishguard kindly loaned one of their boats to enable Wisemans to take two Celti...
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| PYC League Race 23 August 2015
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Sunday 23rd August 2015
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PYC League Race Despite a very wet start to the day the race was declared on! It seemed likely that we would get rather wet as we had to wade across to the container at the Bridge. There were a few thinking twice about whether it was such a good idea. Luckily the weather fairies were (mostly) on our side and apart from a few showers the day t...
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| Aberporth 16th August 2015
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Sunday 16th August 2015
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Aberporth 16th August 2015 An unusually nice day for this season, but another early start in order to make our way up the all too familiar coast to Aberporth.
First up was the Ladies race and although we were unable to field our own crew we still had a vested interest in the race with Bryony rowing for Llanion and Sian rowing for Towy. The Llanion ladies came in 2nd overall from a field of 17 and 2nd in class, losing out to the impressive Newport Ladi...
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| Llanion 9th August 2015
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Sunday 9th August 2015
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Llanion 9th August 2015 In a change to last year’s course the race would be heading up river towards Lawrenny, making for some interesting advantages using the currents, if you know where to go. Conditions for the day were reasonable and very much improved on last year.
Our Ladies Super Vets crew were up first in Oarsome with Marja, Gabi, Sian, Judy and Nick coxing. They had an interesting start almost ending up the wrong side of the...
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| Aberdyfi League Race Day
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Sunday 24th May 2015
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Sunday 24th was the turn of Aberdovey to host their league race. Bryony, Mo, Brian (Nicky), Sian and Capt Mark setting up camp alongside our friends from Towey on Saturday evening, excitedly chatting and planning the after race party. Within a few minutes we were already in trouble, Brian refusing food and having to take to her bed with a mystery illness, it looked as though we were down to four rowers.
The following morning, poor Brian was in a worse state, so sadly we left her reclined in h...
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| Cardigan League Race
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Sunday 10th May 2015
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Since the turn of the year the weather has not lived up to last year’s promise, Wreck Race and Milford Marathon both cancelled due to bad weather, Castle to Castle and Return of the Cleddau both run in tough conditions. So with the 2015 season up and running so to speak the first league race was upon us and the weather continued to be an issue, by the time the towers hit the mist over the Preseli hills on route to Cardigan the wind had picked up considerably. As the tow vehicles entered th...
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| Castle to Castle
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Saturday 9th May 2015
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Beaumaris to Caernarfon
Crew- In Elen (58)
Cox- Gabi
Stroke- Bryony
2-Jim
3- Peter J
Bow- Caroline
Return vehicle duties-Polly.
The day began with an air of expectation as I nervously checked to see, from 06:30 onwards, what had been posted as the race decision.
07:05 I winged a text to the Crew that some four minutes earlier the message
“It’s on!!” had been posted by Elin of RWYC. Pure relief and elation!
My long awaited desire to row the Castle to Castle, from ...
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| PYC Wreck Race
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Sunday 19th April 2015
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Originally intended to be held on the 29th March but called off due to (very) high winds the PYC Wreck race had already developed a reputation for being tough thanks to the inaugural race in 2014. Conditions on the rescheduled day however could hardly have been better. The sea looked almost like glass which was very unusual for Gelliswick.
Thanks to the short notice of the new race date we were only able to field 1 ladies team and have our spare man (Jake) infiltrate the Llanion ranks. A fiel...
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| Return Of The Cleddau
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Saturday 11th April 2015
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H’West to Neyland 14 miles
With this being the first race meeting of the 2015 calendar, as expected it was well attended, even though it clashed with a Northern challenge race “The Madog Dash” , which was also a 14mile open sea race being hosted by Porthmadog rowing club. Wiseman’s captains were able to assemble a ladies crew and a men’s crew for the Return Of The Cleddau, and there was also enough interest to send a mixed crew North on missionary work to tak...
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| Porthmadog Race Report
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Friday 10th April 2015
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Including Snowdon Adventure
On Thursday the 9th April our intrepid band of Wisemans missionaries embarked on their expedition to the wilds of North Wales for their weekend of adventures! The team included Brent, Nat and our youngest team mate Alys, Pappa Smurf and Caroline and Mo, Neil, Lowri, Lottie and their new family member, Brian. Thursday evening saw the rendezvous at The Ship Inn in Porthmadog at 8pm to discuss the plan as the locals eyed us suspiciously.
Friday dawned bright and su...
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| Wisemans Bridge Rowing Club Celtic Challenge Team
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Friday 2nd May 2014
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The Celtic Challenge is the World’s longest true rowing race with teams of rowers from clubs in Wales and Ireland rowing from Arklow to Aberystwyth, a good 90 miles if you could row in a straight line across the Irish Sea! This year we have a team of 12 rowers – women and men aged between 22 and 63, who will take turns to row for about 24 hours to complete the challenge. It is a gruelling event and we are training very hard in preparation. We have also been working with volunteers fr...
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| Achievements/Results archive
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Saturday 22nd May 2010
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