Isle of Wight rowing crews and scullers competed in Southampton at the weekend.
On Saturday, July 13, Ryde Rowing Club made the shop trip across the Solent for the Itchen Imperial Rowing Club Regatta.
The competition was held over a 1,400-metre course, with rowers competing in three boat races.
In the men’s coastal junior fours, the Ryde A Crew of Lar Groothuis, Joe Bird, Isaac Gibson and Charlie Watts, with Harry Watts coxing, comfortably won their heat and semi-final.
They were involved in the closest race of the day in the final against Southampton, where the Ryde crew won by the narrowest of margins.
The club coastal junior B crew of Max Lock, Fin Diffey, Yogi Ashwood, Ben Robotham and Ruby Read, coxing, finished second in their heat, failing to make the next round.
Further success for the Ryde Club came from Lottie Pettitt, who raced and stroked a composite ladies novice four crew with Shanklin Rowing Club, finishing first in their final.
Lottie also competed in the ladies novice sculls event where she won her heat but could only manage second place in the semi-final.
The newly formed men’s novice four of Reuben Rook, Cameron D’Arcy, Fin Diffey and Max Locke, with Ruby Read coxing, failed to make the final, as did the men’s senior pair of Paddy Kearney and Will Hall.
The same fate befell the men’s coastal junior pair of Isaac Gibson and Charlie Watts, and the ladies pair of Alexis Owen and Maggie Sanderson.
Meanwhile, in the men’s novice sculls, Paddy Kearney sculled well to reach the final but fell just short, finishing in second place.
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