Coalporters Junior & Small Boats Regatta. Saturday, 5th August, 2023 - Postponed.

It is with regret, that following the weather warning and forecasted high winds for the weekend of 40pmh, we have had to take the decision to postpone Coalporters Small Boats & Junior Regatta. Usually, the Coalies course is pretty immune to bad weather and if it were our fours regatta, it would have just been very choppy around the turns. However, with the Small Boats & Junior regatta made up solely of novice scullers and under 16 athletes - many of which it may be their first race - the forecasted conditions are simply not safe to proceed. We looked at every possibility prior to making the decision including shortening the course, employing more safety launches and changing the programme running order but each scenario still came back to the safety of crews mainly on the turns and during marshalling.

Coalporters am currently looking at an alternative date which we hope will be sometime in September and hope to clarify this in the next few days. Coalporters will obviously let everyone know this and we can resubmit / amend entries. For any entries not resubmitted, we will offer a full refund as standard but we will also be open to accepting new entries which may not have been entered previously.