Inverness Autumn Head 2025
Over the weekend of the 8th and 9th of November several Clydesdale had a successful weekend of racing in Inverness for the Caley Cruisers Autumn Head of the Caledonian Canal.
Full Inverness 2025 results can be found here: https://events.invernessrowing.uk/liveresults/
Saturday Division 1:
There were 10 crews racing first thing on a beautiful Saturday morning in Inverness. The O R1 4x GUBC/CARC composite crew who placed first in this event and had the fourth fastest time of this division. They were followed by a CARC R1 4x which took second place in this event. In the Nov 2x Finlay doubled up with TGA’s Andrew to take first place.
In the W Champ 1x three CARC senior women were competing amongst the best women scullers in Scotland. Robyn took second place in this event in a time of 19:30.8 beating several recent GB trialist. The CARC/SUBC W R2 4x+ also took second place despite having to make a couple of substitutions due to illness, thanks to our friends at SUBC for making sure this crew could get out on the day!
Seven junior girls also competed in this division, Darcey and Olivia were competing in the very competitive J18 1x and the clydesdale juniors also had a J15 4x+ out which comprised of our newer members to the junior squad, for most this was their first away race for clydesdale and their first time rowing a course off the Clyde and one longer than 4km.
Saturday Division 2:
Another CARC composite crew this time with GUBC and SUBC entered the O Champ 4x and finished in second place both in this event and the division overall. Rory and Struan took to the double in the O R2 2x and despite a seat wheel exploding at the beginning of the race finished in 4th place. In the singles Christina entered the W Nov 1x and Ali in the O Mas Nov 1x, both rowers are very new to the single and put in good first performances at their first Inverness in this event. For the Juniors the W J18 4+ came in second place behind a strong ASRA crew.
Saturday Division 3:
For the final division of the Saturday Finlay joined Andrew (TGA) in the pair and came away with second place. Another second place of this division was for Robyn and Veronika who once again paired up for the double in the W Champ 2x event. In the O Mas Nov 4x+ we had Margaret, Kate, Carole, and Tim (coxed by Jaime) competing against full mens crews; again this was the first Inverness for three of the rowers in this crew but hopefully not their last!
In the singles CARC had three senior athletes competing in the singles. Ev was competing in the O R1 1x and Elle and Hannah in the W R2 1x, with Elle coming away with a second place in this event.
Sunday Division 1:
The junior squad put in impressive performances on Sunday morning. In another second place (out of 13) we had Thomas in the O J18 1x. Then the W J16 4x continued their impressive performances from last season with a first place, this was also Clydesdale’s first medal of the weekend.
In the singles we also had Struan competing in the O Champ 1x and Finlay in the O J18 1x. Then in a mixed 2x Margaret and Mark competed against the men in the O Mas Nov 2x.
Sunday Division 2:
Clydesdale women’s squad members Elle, Robyn, and Veronika were joined by Elle’s beach sprints double partner from the summer, Kirsty (GUBC), in the W Champ 4x, and they finished in 3rd place in this event and had the 5th fastest time in this division. In the W J18 4x clydesdale juniors came in fourth place. The second win for Clydesdale of the weekend came from Fred and Thomas in the O R2 2- in a time of 17:39.5.
Sunday Division 3:
Sunday division three saw five crews competing three of which were composites with other Clyde based boat clubs. First up were the O Champ 2x of Joe (GUBC) and Thomas. Then we had the CARC/TGA pairing of Finlay and Andrew competing back in the double for the O J18 2x. In the O R1 4- we had an all clydesdale crew of Fred, Ali, Rory, and Ev who were competing against a field of predominately university student athletes.
In the quads we had another CARC/SUBC composite of Robyn, Rachel, Jen, and Marie (SUBC) compete in the W R2 4x placing 7th of 12. The final crew down the course for Clydesdale were the W Nov 4x+ which was comprised of junior girls from clydesdale and they finished in a very respectable 6th of 12 against many senior novice rowers.
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