Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club

Thank you to Dover for a well organised and smooth Viking Shield regatta plus thanks for contacting the sun and wind gods, Herne Bay had a super day.

Well done to the club for coming together today as always, with teamwork and supporting each other in their races - even the fury supporters! 

Well done to the whole club for your amazing efforts. Here are the results of the Day:

🥇Open J16 quad
🥇Open J14 quad
🥇 Women's J16 quad 
🥇 Women's Masters 40+
🥇 Women's double sculls (Poppy & Chloe)
🥈 Open Masters 50+
🥈 Women's junior pair (Briony & Melissa)
🥈 Women's novice four 
🥈 Women's junior four (A)
🥉Open senior sculls (Luke)
🥉Open junior pair (Will & Matthew)
🥉 Women's junior pair (Emma & Sophie)
🥉 Open novice four 
🥉 Women's junior four (B)
4th Open junior sculls (Poppy)
4th Open double sculls (James & Alex C)

Here's to more successful regattas this season.

Making the most of this glorious weather. What a treat! 💙

We held our annual safety capsize drill session this weekend. This is an important skill to know and learn but it's also a lot of fun!

We learn how to roll out of a boat, get back in the boat, throw a throw line and drag them in, swim 50 meters as well as tread water for a couple of minutes.

and HBARC joined forces to get our members in the water and confident for the season ahead.

Thank you to everyone who attended and those who helped.

This weekend we travelled all the way down to Southampton for their Head of the Race event.

It was a very busy event full of lots of CARA and Hants & Dorset boats and massive thanks to Southampton ARC and Shanklin RC who loaned us boats, which made it possible to get all of our crews on the water and to compete.

Well done to all of those who competed:

Junior (river) division 
🥈J14/15 girls quad (1st CARA club)
Boys double (Matthew & Daniel) 6th
Boys double (Fred & Will) 7th

Division one
🥉Women's double (Lauren & Esme) (0.01 second after 2nd place and 1st CARA club)
Women's Masters40 8th (1st CARA club)
Women's double (Kirsty & Evie) 4th
Women's double (Melissa & Matilda) 6th

Division two
Open double (James C & Tom) 4th (1st CARA club)
Women's novice four 4th (0.01 sec after third place and 1st CARA club)
Women's junior A 8th
Women's junior B 13th 

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Yesterday a handful of HBARC members joined forces with at the Christchurch Head of the Stour event.

It's International Women's Day and we have so many stunning women and girls in our club who deserve the recognition for their volunteering, planning, driving around, enthusiasm, strength and determination! We love you ladies!

On Sunday a handful of our juniors took part in the Junior Inter-Regional Regatta (JIRR) trials. They travelled to Dorney Lake to row time trials alongside other clubs from the South coast.

The event showcases top young rowers (J15/J16) representing their respective regions.

The main event is on Saturday 25 April 2026.

We had a J15 girls quad, double scull and three single sculls take part.

These girls have been training as much as possible for the past few months (thank you for use of your pontoon). And well done to for all of the organising and coaching (it hasn't finished yet though 😉).

Wow! Just wow!

On the water and in our hearts: taking advantage of the stunning winter sun this remembrance Sunday while wearing red/pink kit and displaying our poppies. We remember those who lost their lives in ww1 and ww2. Lest we forget!

🌹 bay