STRATFORD Boat Club will be having fun on the Avon on Saturday.
The club’s annual Fun Regatta will see 19 crews, with just three hours’ training, compete in a number of ‘side by side’ races in the club’s ‘learn-to-row’ stable boats.
Fun Regatta organiser Adam Franklin said: “We’d like to encourage everybody to come down to the Boat Club or the river to support the crews. It is great to watch as there’s lots of splashing, some crazy outfits and plenty of competitive banter.”
Racing starts at 9am and the victors will be crowned around 4.30am when Stratford mayor Sam McNaught Barrow will present prizes for the winning and the best fancy dressed crew.
Club chairman Dawson Curnock added: “We know that the Fun Regatta is going to be a great day. There is excellent viewing from the Rec, RSC terrace, Bancroft Gardens and especially from the Club grounds where there will be a tea tent, food wagon and bar.”
