SUNDAY OCTOBER 20TH 2024

DIVISION 1 FINISH: TS Orion (about 1200 m below Lady Bay Bridge - see map below).

DIVISION 2 FINISH: flagpoles outside County Hall (about 100 m above Trent Bridge  - see map below)

ENTRIES are via BR Online Entry at £12 per rowing seat (online payment only). 

ORDER OF RACING: the first ten competitors in Division 1 will hold their places from the previous year as far as possible, otherwise competitors will race within their allocated bands. For safety reasons, the number of entries in each division will be capped (priority given to paid entries).

MASTERS' EVENTS: for each boat class, if an age category has two or more entries then a trophy will be awarded to the fastest crew in that category. If any age category contains only a single crew, then that crew will compete for the boat class's 'headship on handicap', which they will win if they beat, on handicapped time, all other masters crews in that class of boat. Separate open and women's headships on handicap will apply.

JUNIOR EVENTS: the organisers reserve the right to amalgamate Junior categories as appropriate to form a race, or to move to an appropriate Senior event. 

BEGINNER EVENTS: all competitors in these events will have a PRI of 10 or less and have been rowing or sculling for up to two years. Please see the note below for more clarity.

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES will be in Nottingham Rowing Club after each division. Prizes will only be awarded for an event when at least two crews actually race (except for 'masters headships' as above).

CLOSE OF ENTRIES: Noon on Sunday 13th October (or earlier if the event is full). The draw will be at 13:00 in Nottingham RC.

CONTACT: nottmautumnhead@gmail.com

Note on Beginner events

We run Beginner events in order to provide meaningful competition for people who've only recently taken up the sport  - they wouldn't be appropriate, for example, for someone who's been rowing for a decade but has only recently started sculling. Because it's impossible for us to definitively enforce our 'two-year rule', we ask the submitting administrator for a crew to confirm on entry that the crew fully meets the Beginner criteria. We are well aware that this is open to abuse and we trust the integrity of submitting administrators in only entering eligible crews into Beginner events. If you have any questions please get in touch.

Course map - Division 1

In 2022 we moved both the start and finish points downstream by about 1000 m in order to avoid a persistent patch of very shallow water. The course distance remains approximately 6000 m.

Course map - Division 2

Division 2 now finishes above Trent Bridge for all boats, a change that was made on safety grounds. The long course is therefore shorter (by about 200 m) than the 'traditional' course that finished outside the clubs.