CHISWICK REGATTA
Saturday 3rd May 2025
REGATTA – KEY DETAILS
Course: 1000 metres with the tide
Three-abreast racing when status and tide are suitable
Open • Women • Junior (J14 and above) • Masters (B and older)
All boat types (including octuples)
PRIZES: GLASS-BOTTOMED PINT PEWTER TANKARDS
Free parking on site will be only for trailers, towing vehicles and minibuses. Other vehicles can be parked at a charge.
Events and Entries
Expected opening of entries is 12 noon on Tuesday the 1st of April.
Entries close on Thursday 24th of April at 12 noon.
Draw and timetable published by Monday 28th of April.
Chiswick Regatta is normally based at the Quintin boathouse site but the boathouse is being rebuilt. As a result, much of the site is now occupied by the contractor’s compounds and by temporary boat storage, leaving very limited space to accommodate the boats of visiting crews. We are therefore running a slimmed down regatta this year. In particular :
- There will be slightly fewer races than normal, with racing from 9am to 5.30pm
- Apart from someone coxing two crews, doubling will generally not be allowed. A competitor may enter more than one event but a priority must be assigned to each of those entries by inputting a crew letter into BROE. If we hold more than one of the events entered by that competitor only the entry with the highest priority will be accepted. (In occasional cases we may allow doubling if it can easily be accommodated within the timetable.)
- Because of the limited parking space, we may reject entries from clubs bringing trailers with only a few boats on them
Entry Types
For each boat type, senior entries (i.e. entries that are neither junior nor masters) may be split into two or more bands determined by the ranking indexes of the entries. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of each such band.
Two adjacent Masters age classes may be combined to form an event. The handicapping system will be applied to any such combined events.
Any doubling up of boats must be notified.
Entry Fees
£18 per seat (excluding coxes). Crews withdrawing after the close of entries are still liable for the entry fee.
Pay through BROE2 or send cheque payable to Chiswick Regatta to the Entries Secretary:
Malcolm Cook,
15 Seychelle Court,
Foxgrove Road,
Beckenham,
Kent
BR3 5XU
Day Tickets
The regatta is accepting day tickets. Bear in mind that British Rowing will refund the cost of an unused day ticket only if the refund is claimed within 7 days of purchase. Entries may be rejected if there is no opposition or if the regatta is over-subscribed.
Entries close at noon on Thursday 24 April and any entries that have to be rejected will probably be notified on Monday 28 April. Thus if you intend to use day tickets you should ensure that they are not bought until shortly before the close of entries. Otherwise the buyer may find that it’s too late to claim a refund.
Enquiries
e-mail: chiswickregatta@btopenworld.com
tel: 020 8658 0908 (home phone number – don’t use on regatta day)
Malcolm Cook, Entries Secretary
Mobile for contact on regatta day :
07502 755437 (Entries Secretary)
07793 532372 (Regatta Secretary)
Procedure in case the regatta is over-subscribed
If the regatta is over-subscribed, your entry may be rejected. The basis on which this will be done will depend on the entries received but we may:
– reject entries in events with smaller numbers of entries, particularly where crews do not appear to be adequately matched as to enable competitive racing, but giving some priority to events for larger boats in order to maximise the number of individual competitors able to race;
– (if we are heavily over-subscribed) limit the number of entries in each event from a single club, prioritising a club’s entries according to the crew letter input into BROE (i.e. A, B etc).
Competitors’ Information
The draw, timetable, competitors’ instructions, course diagrams and safety plan will be available in this section closer to the day of the regatta.
Before the details for the upcoming regatta are available the details for the previous year will still be available below to give competitors new to the regatta an idea of proceedings.
Competitors new to the upper tidal Thames should watch the Port of London Authority video which may be found here on YouTube.
2024 documents below are for information purposes until the 2025 documents are available :-
Parking
Parking on site will be free for trailers, towing vehicles, vehicles with boats on top and minibuses but only if their registration numbers have been notified in advance through this form. The parking is policed by our landlord’s ANPR cameras, so any vehicles whose numbers have not been notified will automatically incur a penalty charge from the car park operators.
Access to the site is no longer via Ibis Lane. Instead, you should drive through the gate on Hartington Road marked ‘River Gate’, which is about 50 metres from the junction with Great Chertsey Road (A316). That takes you into the car park.
Vehicles not entitled to free parking will be able to pay by phone to park in the car park. It’s £2 for 4 hours, with higher rates for longer periods. There is also some free parking in the local streets, but beware of the restriction outlined below. People coming to collect crew numbers or to have coxes weighed should note that there is no parking charge for vehicles that arrive and leave within 15 minutes.
As last year, non-local vehicles are not allowed to go northwards over the mini-roundabout at the junction of Hartington Road and Cavendish Road (arrowed on the map here). Driving southwards over the mini-roundabout is allowed. Furthermore, access to Staveley Road and Burlington Lane from the A316 is restricted. Thus if you want to park in Cavendish Road or the roads leading off it you must go northwards up the A316 to the Hogarth Roundabout, west along the A4, left into Sutton Court Road and then via Grove Park Bridge and Grove Park Road. Don’t park in Ibis Lane, which is a private road.
Please ensure that all your crews are aware of the parking arrangements.
Refreshments
The regatta will not be providing competitor catering but there will be an independent food van on site from which refreshments can be purchased. The bar in Mortlake Anglian’s boathouse will also be open.
In 2024 Chiswick Regatta was kindly supported by the following sponsors.
