Llandaff Rowing Club
| Llandaff Rowing Club | |
|---|---|
| Location | Llandaff, Cardiff, UK |
| Home water | River Taff |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Affiliations | WARA; BR |
| Website | www.llandaffrc.com |
| Events | |
| Annual Regatta (July) Pub and Club Fun Regatta (Aug-Oct) |
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Llandaff Rowing Club is based on the River Taff in Llandaff, a district in the city of Cardiff, Wales. The Club was founded in 1946 and is affiliated to the Welsh Amateur Rowing Association (WARA), as well as British Rowing (BR).
The boathouse and facilities are based on the River Taff, in Llandaff. The stretch of the Taff that the Club rows is approximately 1300 metres long with two obtuse bends in its length. The rowable river runs from the weir up under a road bridge linking Llandaff to Llandaff North as far as a gas pipe spanning the river, where it becomes too shallow to row any further.
The Club is made up of all levels of rowing, from a novice squad to top senior level crews of all stages. This includes a large and vibrant junior squad, which has produced national level competitors (notably in recent history, Zak Lee-Green (2010 GBR squad rower) and Hannah Patterson (2011 GBR junior squad rower)).
The Club's racing kit comprises black shorts and white singlet with a black hoop around the middle of the chest with the club logo in the centre of the band. Llandaff rowing blade spoons are painted white with a black vertical stripe.
The annual Llandaff Regatta is usually held over the second weekend in July. The Club endeavours to draw new athletes to rowing both through an annual event known as the "Pub and Club Regatta", and through staging "Learn-to-Row" courses (held in 2007 and 2010).
"After World War II, returning members of Taff (1879) and Cardiff (1884) Rowing Clubs found their boathouses burnt-out, or collapsed through wood rot, and their boats and memorabilia missing.
Members joined forces to form Llandaff Rowing Club, rebuilding the old Taff Clubhouse and using the Cardiff Boathouse for temporary storage. At first, progress was very difficult because of problems in obtaining building materials in the post-war period and the absence of boats and the silt which had filled the river in places. As luck would have it, the Clubs' own boats, which had been washed up on the estuary mud flats had been rescued by residents of the lower part of Cardiff and protected under tarpaulins. After restoration work, rowing restarted at the end of 1946 and the first regatta was held in 1947.
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