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Henley Masters Regatta has been held on the week following Henley Royal Regatta since 1994. Hosted and run by Upper Thames Rowing Club (UTRC) the regatta has grown into an internationally recognised event for masters crews. Competitors come from all over the world to compete over 1000 metres on the famous Henley reach..

Henley Masters Regatta is kindly supported by the Copas Partnership; without them the Regatta would not be possible.

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Please note Entries will closed on the 20th June

The minimum age is 27 for competitors in line with FISA rules, except coxswains who may be under this age.

Henley Masters Regatta is limited to a set number of races each day of the regatta. Once this number has been reached no more entries can be accepted.

To ensure your entry, we suggest that you enter as early as possible.

To give as many competitors as possible an opportunity to compete the following rules apply:

• Single scullers - each category will be restricted to the first 8 entries received and paid for. N.B this is different for 2013 – entries will not be guaranteed until payment has been received.
• No competitor except for coxes will be permitted to compete in more than two events. Coxes must ensure they have adequate time between races as no allowances for coxed doubling up will be made.
• Heats and quarter finals will be rowed on Friday
• Semi-finals and finals rowed on Saturday, although it may be necessary to hold some semi-finals late on the Friday.
• Note Events where entries exceed 4 will involve racing on the Friday.
• Please ensure you check this website for changes to the draw

Online Entries
On-line entries open from 1st May 2013 via web-site click here. English and Welsh clubs please complete an online British Rowing Online entry form (BROE). E-mailed entries will NOT be accepted.

Entries will close at midday on 20th June or earlier if the maximum number of races has been reached.

Overseas & Scottish (SARA) crews contact British Rowing at sarah.leys@britishrowing.org and give the name of the club and details of the person making the entry. British Rowing will register your details enabling you to enter online through BROE.

Boat Registration
All boats must be registered with the Environment Agency (EA). Registration can be done via the following website http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/recreation/129937.aspx - Boat Registration River Thames.

Application Form - choose the £8.00 option on the form which will give you six days. Ensure the allowable six days covers the Regatta. The Masters Regatta takes no responsibility for unregistered boats. If you are borrowing or hiring boats then please check that your boat is registered. If you have any queries on Boat Registration please contact the EA direct on boatreg@environment-agency.gov.uk "

All crews (excluding Overseas Entries) MUST ensure that each crew member is a fully paid-up member of British Rowing or Scottish Rowing .

See the British Rowing website for details of how to register and renew membership online.

Entry Fees

Entry fees are kept at last years levels.

Payment
There will ONLY be online entries this year for Henley Masters Regatta. Payment can be made either online or by cheque. All cheques to be in GBP, made payable to Henley Masters Regatta.

Cheques must be received by 20th June and should be sent for the attention of:

James Lee
27 Reading Road
Henley-On-Thames
Oxon
RG9 1AB.

Cancellation Policy

Heats, semi-finals and finals will take place in the following order:

Note: Category H & I events will be scheduled according to demand and other events by discussion.

The programme of events will be strictly adhered to. Any competitor who has entered more than one event and is then unable or unwilling to meet the regatta timetable may withdraw but will be liable for the entry fees for the events entered.

Racing will commence at 9.00am on Friday and 8.00am on Saturday. The last race each day is scheduled for 6:00pm

For the event timetable click here.

Course

The Regatta takes place on a 1000m upstream course between Temple Island and Upper Thames Rowing Club on the same reach as the world famous Henley Royal Regatta.

The course:  Two lanes, boomed with stake boats with Temple Island in the background.

Circulation pattern can be viewed here in Acrobat file format

Nearest international airport to Henley on Thames is London Heathrow. Henley has a rail station with access from Paddington Station  in London. The large town of Reading is about ten miles from Henley and has a mainline rail station with access to Paddington Station.

For those new to this Regatta, please note the Berkshire bank of the river (Berks) is the side from which you will boat. The other bank is the Buckinghamshire bank (Bucks).

You must familiarise yourselves with the normal river rules which operate prior to the Regatta and outside of Regatta hours on Friday & Saturday.

Steerspersons / coxes must be especially careful below Temple Island (remember that during the regatta you must return to the normal (Berks) side of the river below Temple Island. During the racing timetable look out for the cross-over point.

Steerspersons / coxes should be aware that lone scullers from other clubs in Henley sometimes ignore the change over times for racing and normal operation. The best advice is to look around you often.

Crews are allowed on the water for practice on Friday morning but must be off the water by 8.30am and on Saturday by 7.30am. No practice is allowed during the racing timetable.

The start is at a point about 100 metres upstream of Temple Island.

The Finish is about 3 metres below the floating pontoon in front of the UTRC boathouse.

Following racing on a launch
Following a race on a launch will be at the umpire / launch driver’s discretion. You may be able to get on a launch to follow a race – go to Temple Island where launches await their next race.

If you just want a general experience of any race then ask to get on a launch at The Start.

Parking

The Masters Regatta trailer park in Hillside car park (above the main Regatta site) does not open until midday Wednesday and the landing stages are only constructed on Wednesday or sometimes Thursday morning. Hillside car park will close Sunday at 17:00 hours. Trailers can park free of charge.

In the past, the entry fee has always included a charge for parking but this has not been transparent. As last year there will be a separate charge for parking but at a reduced rate for Competitors £8.00 per day reduced to £3.00 upon production of a reduced rate parking pass.

Each club will be provided with reduced-rate parking passes for Competitors in line with their entries. Please collect passes from the Registration marquee when registering and return to the parking area for a refund of £5.00.

The Regatta relies upon the local landowner (Copas) for use of its facilities and fields for parking and boating. These facilities include clean toilets and generally keeping the boating area secure, clean and litter free for Competitors and spectators.

Copas need to ensure that the cost of providing these facilities at least breaks even and so they charge for parking. It is important for the Regatta to continue to make use of the Copas facilities for without them and their continued support the Regatta would be quite different. It is also important that the Regatta covers its costs and makes a small profit so that it can continue to maintain its high standards and improve.

Overseas Crews may:

• Rack boats at Upper Thames Rowing Club (UTRC) on Tuesday to Thursday evening. This is on a first come first served basis as space is limited.
• Boat out of UTRC from Tuesday to Thursday evening. (Boats can be left on trestles on the grass in front of the car park or on the lawn in front of the clubhouse. They are the responsibility of the rowers not UTRC).
• Park at the club until Thursday evening – please do not block any trailers / vans as they may be moved at any time.
• BUT you must use Hillside car park during the Regatta. Hillside carpark gates will be left open for access, and you can leave boats on the racks in Remenham Riverside (Rememham Farm area) from midday Wednesday onwards if you prefer to base yourselves there rather than at UTRC.
• Remember we need the UTRC car park on racing days for officials, support crews, safety crews and the medical team and ambulance.
• Tea, coffee, etc are available at UTRC (donations gladly accepted).

Please Do not:

• Boat out of UTRC on Sunday or Monday before the Regatta as the site is being cleared after Henley Royal Regatta (HRR). (Boating by arrangement at Henley RC, Reading, Wallingford or Marlow rowing clubs could be available but you will need to make your own arrangements).
• Do not enter Hillside car park before midday Wednesday and do not interfere with ANY locked gates..
• Deliver trailers to UTRC on Sunday or Monday (keep trailers in HRR car park or elsewhere.
• Park your trailer on UTRC lawns in front of the car park or near the down stream boat shed. Marquees are erected at UTRC on Thursday afternoon and access must be maintained.

If you are borrowing a boat that has been used at HRR, load the boat on to the UTRC trailer in the HRR car park – it will be taken to UTRC on Monday evening. You cannot leave boats in HRR tents overnight on Sunday or on Monday following HRR.

Camping
NO camping is allowed at UTRC and no competitors are allowed to stay overnight in the clubhouse – all camping MUST take place in the campsite behind Remenham Church. The campsite is operated by the Copas Partnership and will open Wednesday to Sunday evening.

Details and booking forms can be found here - http://www.ticketline.co.uk/henley-masters-regatta#bio
To prebook camping please ring +44 (0)1628 499988 also please note that you can also pay on the day.

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Information on accommodation in Henley: 

Henley Visitor Information Centre
Telephone: + 44 (0)1491 578034
email: vic@henleytowncouncil.gov.uk
www.henleytowncouncil.gov.uk
www.southernoxfordshire.com

Changing:
Facilities for men & women will be found in the Regatta Field as well as limited facilities at UTRC Clubhouse.

Catering
During the day food and drink will be available from the facilities adjacent to the boating area at Remenham Farm.
http://www.templeislandmeadows.com/rowing-masters.asp#tab1 – general link including catering

There will be high quality catering provided by Mossimans on Friday & Saturday. For those of you at the Finish refreshments will be available in the UTRC Clubhouse.

Trade Stands:
If you are interested in exhibiting at Henley Masters Regatta please contact regatta@copas.co.uk or call 01628 474 678 for further details and booking.

1. The regatta is affiliated to British Rowing and held under British Rowing rules.
2. All competitors must comply with the British Rowing’s Row Safe Guidelines
3. The Environment Agency (EA) requires all boats, including those from overseas, to clearly display their EA identification number on the sides of the boat.
4. Crews must proceed to the Start and leave the course after racing in accordance with the circulation pattern (PDF). Crews crossing the course must not impede races in progress.
5. The first named crew in each race will take the Berkshire station (towpath side)
   
6. Crews must be attached to the stake boat 2 minutes, before the time of their race
7. No practising will be allowed on the course from 30 minutes before the first race.  No practice starts will be allowed on the course during the Regatta.
8. Winners - medals will be presented at the Presentation Raft as crews return from the finish of their final race.
9. The order of events will be strictly adhered to for heats, semi-finals and finals.
   
10. Heats and Quarter finals will normally take place on Friday and Semi Finals and Finals generally on Saturday.
11. When the number of entries for the Regatta exceeds that which can be accommodated, the Organising Committee  may restrict entries by determining a cut-off date for the acceptance of entries.
12. Crews or individuals  who are unable or unwilling to comply with the Programme of Racing may withdraw from an event but will forfeit the entry fee for that event.
13. Where appropriate the Masters Handicap System will be used in accordance with the Operating Notes in the British Rowing Almanac.
14. The Organising Committee may suspend any crew whom in their opinion cannot demonstrate competent watermanship or safe rowing technique.
15. The decision of the Organising Committee on any aspect of the operation of the Regatta will be final.

FAILURE OF COMPETITORS TO COMPLY WITH THESE RULES MAY LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION FROM AN EVENT OR FROM THE REGATTA

These can be seen at:

• Big Blade (2012)
• Big Blade (2011)
• Wokingham Photographic (2004 only)
• Big Blade (2004 -> 2009)

• 2012 (PDF)
• 2011 (PDF)
• 2010 (PDF)
• 2009 (PDF)
• 2008 (PDF)
• 2007 (.XLS)
• 2006 (PDF)
• 2005 (PDF)
• 2004 (PDF)