LAKELAND Rowing Club fielded a record entry of boats and enjoyed its most successful day of competition ever at Talkin Tarn Regatta on Saturday.

Thirty crews from the Derwentwater club took part in the annual blue-ribbon event held at the country park near Brampton.

Lakeland rowers aged from 16 to 66 years old competed in single sculls, doubles, pairs and quads, taking winning tankards in six categories against crews from across the north of England.

Club chairman Chris Pratt said: “Saturday was a great day for Lakeland Rowing Club.

Our members’ commitment to the club and the sport was represented by a huge turnout at both senior and junior level and an enviable collection of winners’ trophies.

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Windermere Rowing Club was also in action at the weekend’s the regatta.

Windermere women’s Masters quad got sweet revenge over Talkin Tarn Women’s quad in the closest of finishes.

These two crews battled at Durham Regatta in June with Talkin Tarn just getting ahead; this time Windermere sneaked into the smallest of leads in the last 10m of the 700m sprint race taking the race by a few centimetres.

A brilliant result that comes from great coaching and sustained training by the women’s squad.

Talkin Tarn Regatta is in its 159th year, being one of the oldest rowing events in the north.

Attended by 400 rowers from Junior u14s through to Masters aged 70+, across 200 starts one every three minutes in a 10-hour day, it is a real spectacle of racing.

Clubs from Swansea to St Andrews, Lancaster to Loch Lomond and all across the north east ensure lively competitive, but friendly rivalries.

Windermere also had men’s Masters double and quad racers, who fought hard but did not get beyond the heats.

However, all this is part of the club’s growing racing presence in the north.

Windermere RC now heads into a period of serious training in preparation for the Northern Sprint Championship at Hollingworth Lake in September.