We’ve partnered up with British Rowing so you can use their indoor rowing machines. We need you! Email rahmad@ms-sc.org to join 150 other units across the UK!
Rowathon: 18-21 April 2013
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Northern Area
■ Supporting the efforts of Northern Area HQ with their own oar-powered input are:
Airdrie & Coatbridge, Ardossan, Ashington, Bridge of Don, Carrickfergus, Chester-le-Street, Clydebank, Derwenthaugh, Gateshead, Gosforth, Guisborough, Hartlepool, Hebburn & Sunderland, Inverness, Jarrow, Larne, Middlesborough, Musselburgh, Newburn, Newcastle East, North Shields, Peterhead, Portrush, Redcar, Rosyth, Seaham, South Shields, Stockton-on-Tees, Stonehaven, Teesside, Wallsend and Whitley Bay. Good luck to all of you
North West Area
■ Wigan are off to Scotsman’s Flash with a target of £1,000 to raise by rowing Trinity and ASC boats
■ Winsford & Middlewich are rowing their Trinity 500s at Winsford Flash Sailing Club
■ Cumbria District (Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Kendal, Maryport & Solway, Whitehaven and Workington units) is taking to the water at Barrow and Maryport
■ Six RMC volunteers and eight Royal Marines Cadets from North West Area are walking from Kinlochewe to Dundonell (that's 40 miles through the highlands!) to raise money for the New Ship Appeal. (More info here)
■ Also rowing for the New Ship are Altringham & Sale, Bollington & Macclesfield, Buxton, Chester, City of Liverpool, City of Salford, Ellesmere Port, Kirkby & Liverpool North, Liverpool District, Widnes, Huyton, Liverpool West Derby, Manchester Trafalgar, Middleton & Chadderton, Newton-le-Willows, Rochdale, Runcorn, Sefton & Wallasey, Skelmersdale, South Liverpool, Southport, Stockport, St Helens, Stretford & Urmston, Tameside and Warrington. Brilliant effort, Team North West!
Eastern Area
■ Northants & Leicester District (Hinckley, Kettering, Leicester, Loughborough, Northampton & Rushden units) are getting together on the lake at Wicksteed amusement park in Kettering, where they will row in Trinity, ASC and Yole boats for 12-16 hours per unit
■ Flitwick & Ampthill unit is taking a Trinity 500 plus a fleet of kayaks out onto Stewartby Lake for a fun day of rowing – cadets and staff plan to clock up 100 miles between them!
■ Filey unit hopes to raise £500 on indoor rowing machines at Compass Health & Fitness, where the machines will tally the 100 miles it has pledged to cover
■ Scarborough Rowing Club is supporting Barnsley Unit in its epic attempt to row 500 miles on rowing machines on the historic seafront!
■ Huddersfield Unit is heading to Huddersfield University to clock up 60 miles on its rowing machines
■ Good luck also to Burton-on-Trent, Dunstable, Harrogate, Herts & Ware, Leeds, Nottingham, Scarborough, South Elmsall and St Albans
South West Area
■ South Wales District has set a whopping £5,000 target for rowing 250 miles on rowing machines at HMS Cambria near Barry. Good luck to you all: Barry, Cardiff, Newport, Penarth, Porthcawl, Rhondda and Torfaen
■ Cheltenham cadets are going to row three Trinity 500s for 50 miles along the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
■ Bristol Adventure are combining land and water rowing to clock up 249 miles: two rowing machines plus three Trinity 500s and two Yole rowing boats. They hope to raise £500 for the New Ship Appeal
■ West Wales District Staff are pitching in, along with cadets from the District: Aberystwyth, Fishguard, Llanelli, Milford Haven, Neath, Pembroke Dock, Port Talbot, Swansea and Tenby
■ Barnstaple, Coventry, Gloucester, Leamington & Warwick Swindon, Shirley, Teign Valley, Tiverton and Weston Super-Mare have also signed up for the challenge – so far…
London Area
■ London Area has pledged to row 500 miles at HMS President near Tower Bridge
■ Chelmsford, Enfield, Maldon & District, Walton-on-the-Naze, Ruislip, Twickenham and West Ham units have also signed up to help raise funds
Southern Area
■ Surrey District units are planning to row 200 miles on indoor rowing machines at a local school
■ Aylesbury are also going to row indoors… Go Aylesbury!
■ Also flexing their rowing muscles for Southern Area are: Abingdon, Brighton, Camberley, Caterham, Crawley, Dartford & Crayford, Eastbourne, Farnham, Faversham, Fleet & Aldershot, Gravesend, Guildford, Hastings, Horsham, Marlow, Milton Keynes, New Romney, Parkstone, Poole, Reigate, Sheppey, Staines & Egham and Woking. Fantastic effort, all of you!