Annual General Meeting Minutes: 2 Feb 2025
News, Articles and Noteworthy Goings-on at City Barge
Arriva la San Pierota!
The first Venetian boat of its kind is being constructed in the UK.
Cloning the mascareta “Settemari”
We bought our delightful little mascareta “Settemari”. from the Settemari club for €1,100 in March 2006. She is light, easy to launch, and responds quickly. Tim Williams has offered to lead the club in crafting her twin to create a matched pair.
Visit to ASD Canottieri Sile
In June 2022, I met a group of rowers from Treviso’s SILE club when I joined the CIVV rally in Padua. Earlier this year, the SILE club contacted me to say they were coming to Oxford for the 2023 rally on 19-22 July. Stefano Melanotte invited me to visit the club during our March training with Settemari.
2023 CIVV Rally in England
I would like to report on a stupendous event which has just taken place in Oxford. Thirty-one rowers and four supporters travelled by air to take part in the annual rally of the International Community of Venetian Rowers, or CIVV—this year in England and hosted by City Barge.
Piero demonstrates the Valesana
A Wednesday morning in July was a pleasant, sunny day to spend at the old swimming pool area beside Longbridges Boathouse, the perfect location to demonstrate and document the rowing technique known as la valesana.
Safety & Revised Rowing Rules
This recent addition to our website is a dedicated page for Safety and Rowing Rules which you can always reference in the ? dropdown list from the main menu.
First Row of 2023!
The sun was shining the temperature was 12° C—perfect for the first row of the year!
Henley Royal Regatta 2019
In July Henley Royal Regatta was in progress involving about 660 competing crews, many from abroad.
Vignettes: Richard Norton
RICHARD NORTON studied physics at Hertford College Oxford. He became a rower and aspired to be in the blue boat to compete against Cambridge.
My Early Days in City Barge, by Nick Birch
“What a great idea”, I thought to myself while looking at an old photograph taken in the early 1900’s of a gondola on the river at Stratford-upon-Avon; “…to put a gondola back on the river again!”