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Motto
  
Rowing for all

Home water
  
President
  
George Hunter OBE

Location
  
Founded
  
1846 (1846)

Captain
  
Robin Collings

St Andrew Boat Club

St Andrew Boat Club (SABC) is the oldest amateur rowing club in Scotland, and is located at Meggetland on the Union Canal, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Contents

A brief history of the boat club can be found here.

SABC is affiliated to Scottish Rowing, the National Governing Body for rowing in Scotland.

Training

Training on the water usually takes place on a 1600m stretch of the Union Canal during the week. At weekends regular training sessions take place at Auchinstarry, the River Clyde in Glasgow or Strathclyde Country Park, Scotland's Olympic standard regatta course.

Land sessions take place across the road from the boat club, at Energy Gym.

Squads

  • Beginners and Novices
  • Juniors (J13 - J18)
  • Senior Men
  • Senior Women
  • Masters (Aged 27+)
  • Silver Rudder

    The Silver Rudder is the annual boat race between St Andrew Boat Club and Clyde Amateur Rowing Club (Glasgow), and takes place on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

    References

    St Andrew Boat Club Wikipedia


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