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CHATTING WITH SALLY WATKINS FROM THE FOLKESTONE ROWING CLUB PART 2. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  We're back with Sally Watkins now from the folks in rowing club Sally, Now,
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  how was your Gata day? Big day on Sunday? How did it
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  go? We had a very successful regatta this year. The weather wasn't too
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  kind to us with regards to the rain that we did have a few showers
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  but mainly seavers fairly flat all day, wasn't too hot, which would have
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  been really difficult to row several races with the temperature high, and our club
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  won quite a few races, so it was a very successful day. So
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  how many clubs come along? We've got the four from kent hern Bay dealed
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  over and then of course Folkston. Then we move into Sussex. We had
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  bex Hill, Hastings, we had Shoreham, Worthing and Eastbourne and then I
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  don't think this week we had south Sea I remember seeing. So that's pretty
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  I mean at the beach down there, it isn't like huge, is it,
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  you know? And it must have been pretty cramped. Was it lucky
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  that we had quite a flat flattened beach this year? We'd got the guys
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  with the you know shingle moving to flatten it off and we fitted everybody in
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  so the weather was kind of again. So you made the decision. When
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  did you make the decision? Captain made decision on Saturday early afternoon because it
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  was set to be northerly and light winds. There was no chance of it
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  moving around strong south. So you have to keep in close touch with all
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  these other clubs. They're kind of the secretaries or whatever back down the coast.
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  They're all waiting to see an update, are they. Once upon a
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  time people used to have to ring each club to advice, and the umpires
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  coming from different clubs to advise them. Mithagat was on or off. Now
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  there's obviously several WhatsApp chats and captain's chats on chat, so you only had
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  to put and also Facebook all out there. Okay, so you said you
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  had some good results, and so tell us about your club members. How
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  did they do on Sunday in the year. We've got a really good men's
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  junior crew. They had previously a few of them got different combination. This
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  year. They have won the Open. Last year at Folks and Champs they
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  won the Open men's Junior force and two of them plus a youngster came along
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  who's previously a novice up up to this Sunday and another lad we sort of
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  change over. There's about six that jump in and out to make the four.
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  They hadn't won. They won one at the first regatta, but unfortunately
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  the boy had popped under the boat, which is illegal, so they were
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  disqualified. Then they lost a couple, then they were in the lead when
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  the boat got swamped by Way at bex Hill, and after that the regatta
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  was canceled, but that was taken that they didn't qualify as so this time
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  they won easily. So that was our first men's junior four win. Two
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  of them Billy and Sam. They've won five men's junior pairs now so if
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  Hastings hadn't been canceled, we hope they would have won the car A Championship
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  on Sunday, but we hope with Dover on this week they will win that
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  championship. Then Maddie Y Brown who is a Folks and Hive girl. She
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  comes back every year for a birthday and for folks on Agata. She's based
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  in Slovenia and she was a novice and she worked a way up through Folkston
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  Club. So she won the junist girls. Having won last year the novice
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  ladies' gulls. She's now a junior and she won on Sunday, and I
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  think they've got a good entry. They got second in the no so yeah,
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  she won her second and she was rowing with another senior, Sarah,
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  and they got third. In the senior women's pairs, we had senior women
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  were fourth, the women's masters were third, the Masters fifty, the Open
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  Masters where we got men and women in the same boat, they were third,
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  the Open Masters forty fourth. We had novice men go out crew,
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  which it was their first for two of them. It's their first ever Regetta
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  and they rode an amazing race and they were fourth and they were up there,
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  so we have high hopes for them. The novice women, we've had
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  two that have been rowing novice for a couple of years and we had two
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  new women that just come along this year and they finished really well. That
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  was their first race. We've got junior women crew with two novices. They
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  did really well, a few issues, but they came sixth. Sam from
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  the women junior boat, he went up last year to junior skulls and he
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  came fourth. A lot of people actually had five races on the day,
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  so a very busy dayn't work. And at the end of the day we
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  had a mixed quad, so the big boats get rigged up eight oars and
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  we had ten in the race and we had two entries and we did really
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  well with the first so excellently. Do you find that there are if you
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  like, catchment areas and clubs that are kind of you know, strong livery
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  year when they come over to sid to see you. There are some clubs
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  out there that they find the rowers every year. Some stay the durations,
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  some have been rowing for twenty thirty years. I think, you know,
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  we've got people in the boats are like seventy but they've got the experience.
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  Deal is a very strong club, but they're seniors. Were at Henley Henry
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  Trials. Shoreham's are very good club. They've got the river aided to row
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  in the winter when it's rough, so they're very fortunate and they've got unis
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  around them. So there's definitely clubs out there that have got an advantage over
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  us. Yeah, for training, so you go back indoors on the urgos.
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  Okay, So the it sounds like the had a fantastic day and did
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  the Red Arrows happen to get in the way just as we had prize giving.
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  We were rushing prize giving, having had such a long program to get
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  in because of the football starting at five. But just as prize giving happened,
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  the Red Arrows went over saying games that must have been a great organized
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  especially for the brigatta. Of course you took the credit for that. Note
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  Yeah, yeah, kid, right, So let's get back to the club
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  in question. Now, how's it going generally down the club? How's your
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  membership? And how can people water training nights? How can people get in
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  touch those that wish to row? They can come down on a Sunday morning.
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  This Sunday all most of us are going to be ecked over, hopefully,
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  but Wednesday nights from six go online all the instructions there. We've got
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  very good website focused on rowing club socially. People don't have to row,
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  or they can just socially row. Don't have to compete this, No,
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  no, we're not pushing people into a voat. It's a thriving club.
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  We had a waiting list for a social members and that and we've had open
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  days for rowing and we've had some good you know, feedback and some good
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  rowers coming along this year. Right, So how was the after party and
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  the the after party a lot of drinking and the football and England you know,
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  got through and then there was music laid on, so dancing partying.
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  It was a very good day. So a few sick notes going in Monday,
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  I should think, Sally, is anything else you want to add before
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  we go. We did have the opportunity this year of applying to become a
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  gb Coastal Sculling Academy and effectively we have got the go ahead, so you
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  know that's going to be on the website and we had the opportunity of people
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  coming. We've got the fast link from London. Anyone that wants to train
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  for the coastal scarling, which is a different type obviously to people that are
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  rowing on the river or generally different type of boats, a stronger boat with
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  you know the water can flow out easily, no sinking in those hopefully,
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  and it is going to become part of the Olympics in four years time.
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  Wow, So things are looking good down at the club then aren't they.
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  Yeah, Oh, Suny, thanks for giving up your time today and well
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  it's just been an interesting chat and I love hearing this because it's a sport
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  I don't know much about, and although I've been down there on regatta days
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  and it just looks like absolute chaos, I'm sure there's some order about it.
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  Yeah, of course. Anyways, so thank you once again, Sally.
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  Let's hope the rest of the regatta season is a success. Thank you,
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  Thank you, Kevin,