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Holme from Home Jan 2025

The national watersports at Holme Pierrepont has been running some open training weekend sessions during January. This is a great idea to help all those clubs that have lost river time in their locations due to the recent flooding. 

This last session was the first attended by the Devils and seemingly by every other club in the region. The day had dawned bright and cold, and most thankfully, calm just the day after Storm Eowyn.

There was the expected bun fight getting boats onto the water, not all the pontoons being long enough for 8s. 

We put out a men’s 8+, a women’s 4- and women’s 4x-. There was a dedicated lane at the side of the lake for all the boats to make their way to the start at the far end. This was fun to navigate with a mix of crews doing different warm ups. Similarly doing pieces back towards the finish required extreme vigilance. A mix of boats, a mix of skill, speed and common sense was on display.  The number of crews thinned out as the morning progressed and the run outs after a mid session brew were a bit less traumatic for coxes and crews alike – although the crews, facing backwards,  were mostly unaware of possible impending doom that lay before them from a randomly stationary boat.

Boats everywhere - form a disorderly queue
Faffing time
Putting in the 8, standing on the ice.
Putting the 8 in - take two - this time the right way round.
White high heeled wellies are apparently a thing now.
Men's 8 Being Artistic
Womens 4x- on its way up
Racing the paddlers
Women's 4- Looking good and working hard