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2009

2009 Regatta Photographs 23/06/2009
The official photographs of the 2009 National Veteran Championships are now available at www.lawrence-m-feaviour-photography.co.uk

Provisional Results Published 16/06/2009
The provisional results for the 2009 National Veteran Championships is now available here in Microsoft Excel format and here in Adobe PDF format.

Adobe Reader can be downloaded here
Microsoft Excel Viewer can be downloaded here

Provisional Draw Published 08/06/2009
The provisional draw for the 2009 National Veteran Championships is now available here in Microsoft Excel format.

Please also see the supplementary notes.

Entries Closed 04/06/2009
Entries have now closed and we are delighted to announce that it is a record entry of 418 crews!

The draw is being prepared in line with the Vet Champs Rules and by taking into account crew preferences if no race exists for a particular crew. The draw will be published on Sunday night. There will now be no further refunds of entry fees for crews that now withdraw.

Entry Deadine 01/06/2009

Entries for the 2009 Veteran Championships close at 18:00 on Wednesday 03/06/2009. All entries must be fully paid for by that time to be included in the draw.

Official National Veteran Championships T-Shirt 01/06/2009
Official short sleeved t-shirts will be on sale at the Rock the Boat stall on the grass by the bar and grandstand, and also on-line at www.rock-the-boat.co.uk. The t-shirt has been designed by Olympic rower Annabel Eyres and features the iconic Union Flag Puddles design and the names of all the competing Clubs. The National Veteran Championships will receive a donation from every sale.

2009 Regatta - Further Information 20/05/2009

Entries
Please remember that entries for the Vet Champs are via OARA only. One or two paper entries have come in and, whilst these will be honoured, we would ask that all further entries are put in via OARA.

If your club isn’t listed in OARA (either because it’s a new club or an overseas club) please contact the ARA on 0208 237 6700 to arrange access.

Racing Programme
There have been a number of enquiries about how the Novice, Intermediate 3 and Mixed events fit into the racing programme. Heats and Finals for the ‘open’ events are run in the order shown on the poster. Nov, IM3, Vet H and Vet I events are then slotted into the main racing programme taking into account, where possible, doubling up of people and equipment. We do try to accommodate doubling, tripling and even quadrupling up so it is very important that the names of your crew members are correct and you let us know if you are sharing equipment.

We have also had a few enquiries asking what happens if there is only one crew entered for a particular event. The Standard Times and Championship Rules pages outline how the Veteran Handicap System will be used for ‘open’ events. The Handicap system will not be used for IM3 or NOV events but adjacent age categories will be merged. For example single entries in Vet D NOV 1x and Vet E NOV 1x would be merged to make a race which would be run as Vet D NOV 1x without the handicap.

It also helps us a lot if you are able to specify an alternative choice of event when you put your entry in.

NWSC
The National Water Sports Centre is, once more, being run by Nottinghamshire County Council. For more information and details of the accommodation and camping facilities at the NWSC please visit:-

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/leisure/l-sport/nwsc.htm
and
http://www.nwscnotts.com/

2009 Regatta Details 28/04/2009
The 2009 National Veteran Championships will take place on Sunday 14th June at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham.

Poster is available here.

2008

Regatta Photos 18/06/2008
Photos for both the Veteran Championships and Loughborough Regatta are now available at www.lawrence-m-feaviour-photography.co.uk

Results now online 17/06/2008
The results for the 2008 Veteran Championships can be found here.

For general enquiries about the Vet Champs please e-mail enquiries@vetchamps.org.uk.

For details of Loughborough Regatta see www.loughboroughboatclub.co.uk.