Welcome to Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club!
Founded in 1887, Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club has a long history of competing in the Coastal Amateur Rowing Association (CARA).
HBARC is a completely different experience from your usual sport clubs. Coastal rowing is a physically tough, deeply rewarding sport. If you’re new to the sport there’s no better place to learn and compete than with HBARC!
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Herne Bay Amateur Rowing Club
Founded in 1887 and still a thriving coastal club, training all year and competing at coastal regattas throughout Kent and Sussex each summer.
Our first regatta of the year and it was so much fun. Clubs from far and wide came to support the event and to scope out what this year has to offer with regards to competition. Congratulations to all of the clubs who did so well.![]()
All of our club members chipped in, making the event run smoothly throughout the day – we couldn’t have done it without you all.![]()
We got some great results during the day- a great start to the season:
🥇 J16 girls
🥇 J16 boys
🥇 J14 mixed quad
🥇 Women’s masters 40+
🥇 Women’s junior four
🥇 Open Masters 40
🥇 Open Masters 50
🥇 Women’s double sculls (Poppy & Chloe)
🥈 J16 girls
🥈 Open junior pair (Tom & Alex)
🥈 Open senior sculls (Luke)
🥈 Women’s novice fours
🥈 Open novice fours
🥈 Open junior four
🥈 Open senior four
🥉 Open J/S four
🥉 Women’s masters 40+
🥉 Open senior pair (luke & Will)
🥉 Open junior sculls
4th Open J/S four
4th Women’s novice four
4th Open junior sculls
5th Open novice four![]()
With regards to the Viking Shield, for the last three years we’ve held the title but congratulations to Dover for winning it on it’s centenary year, who will host the event next year.![]()
📸 Photos courtesy of a few of our club's budding photographers.
The Viking Shield regatta is ON tomorrow.![]()
Starts at 10am until about 4pm. ![]()
Please come along to support all coastal rowers from across the south coast 🚣🏻♀️
The Viking Shield has featured in the paper this week. The Viking Shield regatta event might just be 100 years old this year 😳 happy birthday 🥳![]()
The Viking shield event is taking place this Saturday (26th April) 10am. All welcome to cheer us all on.![]()
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