Putney Town Rowing Club

We are planning to show some World Cup 2010 games in the PTRC Bar this year. Please come down and support England and your club by giving us your custom instead of your extremely busy and loud local pub!

The first scheduled match is England Vs USA on Saturday 12th June - KO 19:30 (Bar open from 18:30) and others will be scheduled depending on England’s progress! Next round games take place on the weekend of 26/27 June.

Bar open for every listed game (other games may be shown according to demand)

Family and Friends welcome!

Enjoy the best seat in town, with a 42″ Plasma Screen and no waiting at the bar!

We will also be operating a BBQ in expectation of hot weather - please bring your own food and feel free to grill at your leisure!

Hope to see you there- any queries please email: bar@putneytownrc.co.uk

Larry Eggleton,
PTRC Bar Manager

Enjoy the best seat in town, with a 42″ Plasma Screen and no waiting at the bar!

• Food available
• Bar open for every listed game (other games may be shown according to demand)
• Family and Friends welcome!

Saturday 6th February 2010

Ireland - Italy 14:30
England - Wales 17:00

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Italy - Scotland 13:30
England - Ireland 16:00

Saturday, 13 March 2010

(Women’s Head Day – Starts 15:00)
Ireland - Wales 14:30
Scotland - England 17:00

See you there!  flyer.pdf

Saturday 23 January 6.30pm

Och aye the noo, it’s here again the PTRC Burns night pub quiz and supper!

The full on Burn’s night experience with supper of Haggis, tatties and neeps, as well as a quiz which will be the usual great mix of picture, music and traditional question rounds! With prizes for each round and an overall Champion Team prize!

Quiz kicks off promptly at 7pm and supper will be in the interval. Table service during the quiz means there is no need for you to miss questions whilst you go for a drink.

Supper will have Meat & Vegetarian options for only £5!

Quiz

Team sizes of up to 6 people and don’t worry despite using Burns night as an excuse for having the quiz it’s general knowledge not a Burns or Scottish quiz!
£2.50 per person to enter.

If you wish to attend can you please email your team name and members to ben.melham@gmail.com and if you don’t have a team just email us anyway and we can sort you out with one.

IMPORTANT: Email team details ASAP to guarantee table!

(In previous years we have been overbooked with 100+ people in attendance so get in early!)

PTRC MEMBERS: If you would like to volunteer to help out (club events can only take place with volunteers!) for table service, bar service, food preparation or anything else  please contact lucybrennan7@hotmail.com

View Poster (pdf)

Like an experiment in poor taste, Saturday was “Minging Kit” day at Putney Town and was followed by a party to welcome new members to the club.

Two mixed eights raced over the water outside the club dressed in kit that rated about 12 on the loudness scale. A small selection of the visual onslaught is below.

Mankini man

Men in pink

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BBQ

The Summer Party is nearly upon us and this year and in addition to the usual BBQ and “PTRC Summer Olympics” this year will be host to an adult-friendly bouncy castle!

Timetable of events

• 11:00 PTRC Scullers Head
• 14:00 Gourmet BBQ (£5, including veggie option)
• 15:00 Olympics Start
• 17:00 Rounders match

In addition there will be Welly Wanging, Wii Sports competition, guest beers and other events. All members and guests are welcome, the bar is open all day and there will be music on until late.

Remember, Putney Town is an all weather venue so everything will take place regardless of the weather (which of course will be sunny!).

Volunteers required for BBQ, bar etc, so please let Larry, Lucy or James know if you can help out.

You can also download the Summer BBQ flyer.

Emma and Larry returning to dock in Key West

A cause for much celebration and the breaking out of an entirely new category for articles on the PTRC website for weddings and babies!

Most recently Larry and Emma were married in Key West, Florida USA. Full marks go for the Key Lime Pie with PTRC blades atop (see photo below)!

A few months ago Anthony Cake, better known to most as simply “Cakey”, was married to Gillian. The wedding was in St Andrews, Scotland and was another splendid demonstration of Putney Town colours! Cakey writes:-

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“When we gather for the happiest week in all the year, it is the brotherhood of rowing, the comradeship of the oar that we recall, when eight men who have trained until they have become a single drive, a single thrust of forward-flashing wrists, face suddenly the crisis towards which that selfless toil has led them, and know that every link in all that pulsing chain of flesh
and blood rings true. For us, there are no centuries or duck’s eggs, no goals or gallery kicks, no individual distinctions where the crew are all in all. The rattle of the riggers of the finish, the music of the tide beneath her body as she shot between the strokes, the grim yet heartening sound of splendid and unbroken strength when all eight blades crashed in together - these are the things that no one who has heard and felt them will ever forget. Some delirium. Some tremens. Some kaleidoscope.”

-Sir Theodore Cook

With the regatta season upon us, some people may be scratching their heads trying to understand the new ARA rules that were introduced at the beginning of April this year. What does Intermediate 3 really mean? What happened to Senior 1-4?

The table below should help clear up any confusion. Just remember whatever points status a rower had before April has now gone up one point with this new system. So if someone had 2 points in 2008 they now have 3 against their name for 2009. This is primarily because the NV (novice) status has now gone to zero pushing the points for everyone up by one point.

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The time has come once again for most prestigious social event in the calendar - the annual PTRC dinner dance! For those who haven’t been before, this formal occasion held in the hall at the club house is a great evening consisting of posh frocks, a professionally catered four course silver service dinner, awards, speeches, dancing, live music, and perhaps a drink or two….

The hall though can only hold a maximum of 100 people and there are the last few tickets remaining which are £37.50 each.

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Matt, who came over from Australia having been a keen surf rower in Sydney, joined Putney Town RC last August and rowed in the Men’s Head of the river race in the first VIII. He wrote about his experience of the head race and provided the photos in the album below: -

We have just had a week of awesome sunshine, the spring is here, the days are getting longer and the weather couldn’t have been better for the HORR, the biggest and last head race before the regatta season starts for the summer. It even felt like I was making progress with my tan!

I can’t tell you how much fun I had - the race was excellent, the crowds fantastic, the company brilliant and the social afterwards absolutely unreal. Joining Putney Town Rowing Club was quite clearly one of the best decisions I have made since coming to London.

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