Regatta champs dock in Totnes

Dart Totnes Rowing Club staged the third regatta of the West of England Amateur Rowing Association’s 2025 nine regatta championship series on the river Dart at Totnes.

Totnes & Bridgetown Royal Regatta attracted 183 entries, necessitating 103 races at four minute intervals.

Needless to say, the river conditions were superb over the 1,000 metre course, producing some excellent racing.

Torbay clubs Paignton and Torquay produced some surprising results in both Championship and supporting events.

Paignton again won the Open under 14 double sculls with Oscar Chambers and Ollie Higgs following their win at Wimbleball the previous week. Oscar and Ollie were also second and third in the Championship Open under 14 single sculls.

The Championship Open Novice coxed four of Simon Baxter, Jason Higgins, Mark Ballard, Jeff Badman and cox, James Tookey, were second and the Championship Open Senior C coxed four of Simon Baxter, Jason Higgins, Ben Smith, Jeff Badman and cox, James Tookey, were placed third in their event. The club also took third place in the Mixed eights.

Torquay were winners of the Mixed eights and the club had two third places with William Jackson-Heritage at Championship Open under 16 single sculls and Sophie Evans at Championship Women’s Novice single sculls.

The next Championship Regatta is at Exeter on July 12.

Totnes & Bridgetown Royal Regatta results:

Championship events:

Open Senior A coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes 2 Bideford Reds

Open Senior B coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes/Bideford Reds 2 Exeter 3 Bideford Reds

Open Senior C coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes/Bideford Reds 2 Bideford Reds 3 Paignton

Open Novice coxed fours 1 Dartmouth 2 Paignton

Open Masters coxed fours 1 Falmouth (F) 2 Plymouth (D)

Open under 16 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Dart Totnes 2 Exeter 3 Falmouth

Open under 14 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Exeter 2 Dart Totnes B 3 Dart Totnes A

Open Senior A single sculls 1 Bennett – Bideford Reds 2 Frost – Dart Totnes 3 Fanson – Bideford Blues

Open Senior C single sculls 1 Fanson – Bideford Blues 2 Keir – Exeter 3 Brew – Plymouth

Open Novice single sculls 1 Bartle – Dart Totnes 2 Middlewick – Falmouth 3 Sullivan – Exeter

Open under 18 single sculls 1 Middlewick – Falmouth 2 Brew – Plymouth 3 Brueton – Dart Totnes

Open under 16 single sculls 1 Long – Exeter 2 Malone – Dart Totnes 3 Jackson-Heritage – Torquay

Open under 14 single sculls 1 Stokes – Exeter 2 Chambers – Paignton 3 Higgs - Paignton

Women’s Senior A coxed fours 1 Bideford Reds 2 Dart Totnes 3 Bideford Blues

Women’s Senior C coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes B 2 Dartmouth 3 Bideford Blues

Women’s Novice coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes A 2 Exeter A

Women’s under 18 coxed fours 1 Dart Totnes 2 Exeter 3 Plymouth

Women’s under 16 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Dart Totnes A 2 Dart Totnes B 3 Falmouth

Women’s under 14 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Dart Totnes 2 Exeter

Women’s Senior A single sculls 1 Manning – Dart Totnes 2 White – Exeter 3 Hallett – Dart Totnes

Women’s Senior B single sculls 1 Darnley – Dart Totnes 2 Cope – Dart Totnes 3 Cresser – Exeter

Women’s Novice single sculls 1 Silvester – Plymouth 2 Warner – University of Plymouth 3 Evans – Torquay

Women’s under 18 single sculls 1 Cope – Dart Totnes 2 Silvester – Plymouth 3 Ormesher – Exeter

Women’s Under 16 single sculls 1 Darnley – Dart Totnes 2 Wollaston – Dart Totnes 3 Riggs – Dart Totnes

Women’s under 14 single sculls 1 Hamilton – Exeter 2 Hosegood – Plymouth 3 Barker – Dart Totnes

Supporting events:

Open eights 1 Dart Totnes 2 Bideford Reds

Women’s Open eights 1 Dart Totnes 2 Exeter

Women’s Masters C/D eights 1 Dart Totnes (D) 2 Exeter (C)

Mixed eights (Beginners) 1 Torquay 2 Dart Totnes 3 Paignton

Mixed Masters eights 1 Falmouth (E) 2 Exeter (D) 3 Dart Totnes (E)

Open double sculls 1 Dart Totnes 2 Falmouth 3 Bideford Reds

Open Novice double sculls 1 Dart Totnes/Bideford Reds 2 Dartmouth B 3 Dartmouth A

Open Masters double sculls 1 Exeter (E) 2 Dart Totnes (J)

Open under 18 double sculls 1 Dartmouth 2 Dart Totnes 3 Plymouth

Open under 16 double sculls 1 Exeter 2 Dart Totnes

Open under 14 double sculls 1 Paignton 2 Dart Totnes 3 Exeter

Women’s Open double sculls 1 Dart Totnes/Falmouth 2 Exeter 3 Dart Totnes

Women’s Novice double sculls 1 Exeter 2 Falmouth

Women’s Masters double sculls 1 Falmouth (F) 2 Exeter (D) 3 Dart Totnes (D)

Women’s under 18 double sculls 1 Exeter 2 Plymouth

Women’s under 16 double sculls 1 Dart Totnes B 2 Dart Totnes A 3 Falmouth

Women’s under 14 double sculls 1 Exeter 2 Plymouth/Bideford Reds

Mixed double sculls 1 Falmouth 2 Plymouth

Mixed Masters C/D double sculls 1 Falmouth 2 Castle Dore

Mixed Masters F/G double sculls 1 Dart Totnes A 2 Dart Totnes B

Mixed Masters double sculls row off 1 Falmouth (C/D) 2 Dart Totnes (F/G)

Masters D single sculls 1 Clarke – Falmouth 2 Lewis – Plymouth 3 Hwang – Exeter

Masters F/G/I single sculls 1 Coote (I) – Falmouth 2 Snelling (G) – Exeter 3 Cox (H) - Bideford Reds