Welcome to the 2016 / 2017 Boat Rowing Season.

It’s great to see so many of our section enthusiastic and already preparing for the season ahead. We currently have four Junior Crews, plus our extra young guns crew, 2x Colts Crews, 1 x ‘A’ Crew, 1 x Open Women’s Crew, 3 x Reserve woman crews, 2 x u 19 Woman’s, 2 x U/23 Women’s Crews and 5 x Reserves/ Veteran Crews, plus a masters woman crew!!!!

This season we welcome back to the Boat Section - Joel Croft, Braden Flemming and Brook Flemming. These gentlemen are very experienced North Cronulla ‘A’ Crew Rowers who are now taking up sweeping boats! They are a huge asset to our club and it is so good to see them back in the boat…keep the wheel turning! I would also like welcome Dave young, Dave is a very experienced sweep and it is great to have him part of our team.

This coming season the North Cronulla Boat Section will compete in: The River Run, The South Coast Series, Australian Surf Rowing League and all Sydney Branch carnivals. The NSW Carnival will be held at Swansea Belmont and the Australian Surf Life Saving Carnival will be back at Kirra/Tugun Beach QLD. There are state team spots up for grabs in the ASRL series and our open men and women will be trialling for the Australian team on the 18^th of December and likewise our under 23 men and women will be on the 17^th of December.

If you are not training on the ergo’s or on the water rowing, improve your strength and fitness by attending sessions at the club each week. These sessions are great for team building!!

Monday – Circuits – Gym 5.30pm. This is a great, quick session involving high reps/low weight. Great for the young (and not so young).

Thursday – Tom’s Boxing – Ballroom 6pm. BYO boxing gloves. This is always a great workout and has been very popular all year round.

Sunday Sandhill’s 6.30am- Will return – Stay tuned! All crews and sweeps are invited and encouraged to attend!

Book your boat via the Facebook page. Please be mindful that we are all sharing the equipment. Please be on time and make sure equipment is washed before being put away. Most crews have now made a commitment to train and race together, please make sure you find a replacement via Facebook or Messenger if you can’t make your crews session. Help other crews out as much as you can.

All up to date communication will appear on the North Cronulla Boaties Facebook page and via Messenger

Thank You to our sponsors who keep us well equipped: Major Sponsors: Hogs Breath Café Cronulla, (who are funding two new DKG surfboats this season), Our long standing sponsor Southern Fasteners, National Truck Insurance, Dean “Wokeye” Bartlett, The Dolden Boys, First Point Mortgages, P and R Lift Cars, Rodger Humphrey, Brian Salisbury, Go Electrical Taren Point, Attwells Kitchens and Cronulla Smash Repairs.

Our raffles are held each week at Northies and Caringbah Inn. If you can spare an hour on Friday evening let Wokeye know that you can help him out.

Team work plays a crucial part in the success of our section and I am sure this will continue to take our results to the next level this season.

Looking forward to another busy boat rowing season for the mighty Blue and Gold.

Michael Bofinger