Molesey Boat Club

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Molesey Boat Club
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LocationGraburn Way (informally on Barge Walk), East Molesey, Surrey England
Coordinates 51°24′26″N0°21′4.5″W / 51.40722°N 0.351250°W / 51.40722; -0.351250 (Molesey Boat Club)
Home water River Thames
Founded1866
Membership700
Affiliations British Rowing
boat code - MBC
Website www.moleseyboatclub.org
Events
Molesey Regatta, Molesey Junior Regatta, Molesey Veterans Head
Distinctions
Head of the River Race (1st 2010), Henley Royal Regatta (numerous wins)
Notable members
Martin Cross, Chris Martin, Ian McNuff, Greg Searle, Jonny Searle, Philip Simmons, Andrew Triggs Hodge

Molesey Boat Club is a rowing club between Molesey Lock and Sunbury Lock on the River Thames in England. The club was founded in 1866 where its boathouse stands with hardstanding next to the Thames Path.

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Molesey has been the organising or support club for Molesey Regatta since its inception in 1867.

Results

Head of the River Race

2015: 2nd
2014: 1st (of 70. Unofficial as race was abandoned as wind increased.)
2013: Race Cancelled
2012: 2nd [n 1]
2011: 2nd [n 2]
2010: 1st [n 3]
2009: 4th [n 4]
2008: 8th [n 5]
2007: 3rd (of unknown number. Unofficial as race was abandoned after several crews sank.)
2006: 3rd
2005: 4th
2004: Race Cancelled
2003: 2nd
2002: 4th
2001: 4th
2000: 5th

Henley Royal Regatta

Women's events, most not integrated into main regatta - expanded to three in total in 2014

no wins to date

Henley Women's Regatta wins since 1991. † = composite (with other club)

Recent British Championships

National Schools' Regatta

Squads and management

The club consists of approximately 700 members, consisting of juniors, novices, seniors, veterans and Great Britain internationals of both genders.

The club is run by a committee of 16 elected members, including the five officers of the club, Captain, Deputy Captain, Vice Captain, Secretary and Treasurer.

Notable members (past & present)

Attractions

The Molesey stretch allows a 4.5 km navigation from main weir to main weir and is shared with two other boat clubs, the Sunbury Skiff and Punting Club and the Millennium Boat House of Hampton and Lady Eleanor Holles Schools. [6] The second non-tidal reach above Teddington Lock, banks lack the funnelling walls at many points along the widening reach below, factors which lead to fewer waves on windy days. The club has organised or been the main supporting club for the organising of Molesey Regatta since it was founded, a year after the club. [7]

The club was the first place that Queen guitarist Brian May used his Red Special guitar live on stage with his group 1984.

Sponsors

The club does not currently have any sponsors. Previously it has been sponsored by a Building Society and the International Sports Promotion Society. The club has also received sponsorship from Sport England and Elmbridge Borough Council and other organisations and public bodies in the past.

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. of 404 eights to finish.
  2. of 393 eights to finish.
  3. of 388 eights to finish.
  4. of 409 eights to finish.
  5. No Molesey international members present
  6. Elite international men's coxed fours. Replaced in 2004 to narrow the Britannia Challenge Cup to clubs and so to create the Prince Albert Challenge Cup for students
  7. Championship (heavyweight) eights.
  8. Senior coxed (heavyweight) eights.
  9. Elite coxless (heavyweight) fours.
  10. Elite coxless lightweight fours
  11. Elite eights
  12. Senior coxed fours
  13. Aspirational 4x
  14. Junior 4x
  15. Junior 2x
References
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Henley Royal Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Henley Women's Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14
  3. "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.
  4. "2014 British Rowing Championships Race Centre". British Rowing. 17 October 2014.
  5. https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo-2020/results/rowing/men-s-eight
  6. Grid Reference Finder distance tools
  7. Baker, Rowland G M (1989). "Molesey Boat Club page from "Thameside Molesey"" . Retrieved 31 March 2010.

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