ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Edited to show Courtney Langmead and Maryn Klien Beernink Work are new members of The Cahill Group crew and that Ben Colbourne is the coxswain
They have a new sponsor, a new stroke oar, one new crew member, a cox who once was the spare, a rower who once was the coxswain and a complete reshuffling of positions in the boat. Otherwise, the three-time defending men’s champions of the Royal St. John’s regatta looked very much like their old selves as they posted the top time of the Regatta Time Trials, held Saturday at Quidi Vidi Lake.
Fine Strokes, with James Cadigan on stroke oar and Daniel Cadigan, Mark Perry, Colin Stapleton, Mark Hayward and Adam Kavanagh rounding out the crew, posted a time of nine minutes, and 23 seconds, the fastest of the 15 senior men’s crews that took to the pond Saturday.
Coxing is Craig Whittle, who is both the owner of Fine Strokes Painting and Plastering and who had been the spare during the team’s three-year championship streak when they competed as Outer Cove. Whittle takes over steering from Hayward, who had been the coxswain of the crew, which rowed a time of 8:55.90 in the 2018 Regatta, third-fastest in the history of the event and about four-and-a-half seconds off the men’s course record, set by Crosbie Industrial in 2007.
Kavanagah is the newcomer as he and Hayward replace Brent Hickey and Brent Payne, the former stroke and No. 5 oars, respectively. As part of the change, the four returning rowers moved up two places in the boat, with Hayward and Kavanagh at No. 2 and No. 1.
Hickey is now the team’s spare.
Belfor (stroke Eric King, Jamie Traverse, Steve Sweeney, Chris Sweeney, Kenny King, Nick Duke, spare Wayne Walsh, coxswain Kenneth King) had the second-fastest time among the senior male crews, almost nine seconds behind Fine Strokes,
Belfor had been fourth in last year’s men’s championship race.
Outer Cove’s three-year run of championships coincided with a winning streak by m5 on the women’s side. But after setting a new women’s course record of 4:56.10 in 2018, m5 isn’t back this year.
Hyflodraulic established itself as the favourite to become the new women’s champ by posting a 5:09.50, the fastest female time Saturday. The crew — stroke Catherine Kelly, Tracy Roche, Wendi Young, Teresa Butler, Amanda Butland and Jennie Wadden — is basically the same as that of the Smith Stockley entry that finished second to M5 in last year’s championship, with the one oar change seeing Wadden taking over for Tina Ring.
There’s also a switch on the tiller, with Whittle the coxswain here, too, replacing Paul Ring
The Cahill Group,, which was third which was third in last year’s Regatta women’s final with a lineup of stroke Hilary Sinclair, Shannon Driscoll, Lindsay Denine, Carla Chaytor, Stephanie O’Quinn, Jennifer Krysak and cox Frank Norris, also moved up a place. With Courtney Langmead and Maryn Klien Beernink Work in the lineup, Chaytor and Sinclair out and Ben Colbourne steering, they had a time of 5:17.50 Saturday, exactly eight seconds slower than Hyflodraulic.
There were 107 teams that posted times in Saturday’s trials, with 77 — or more than two-third of them — in female categories.
The aim of the trials is to have teams in various age-group/gender divisions with comparable times grouped together for individual Regatta Day races, in an attempt to create more even competition.
Teams are slotted for Regatta Day races within the division based upon times they row in the trial heats. The crew with the fastest time in its time-trial division gets to select the boat and stake of its choice for the Regatta, with the process continuing with the crew owning the second-fastest time, and so on.
The times from the trials will be used create a master schedule for the Regatta, set for Wednesday, Aug. 7.
Many of the crews competing in St. John’s will also take part in fixed-seats regattas in Placentia (set for July 2o this year) and Harbour Grace (July 27).
Time Trial Results
Final times for crews participating in Saturday’s Time Trials at Quidi Vidi Lake for the 2019 Royal St. John’s Regatta. Crews are listed in order of their times.
Notes: (1) Senior, masters, intermediate and juvenile male crews row full course; senior, masters, intermediate, juvenile and midget women’s crews as well as juvenile male crews row a half course. Squirt crews row a quarter of the course; (2) In order to fill out the lineup for some individual Time Trial races, crews from varying divisions were placed together
Key: * — won an individual Time Trial race; X - No finishing time
Senior female (44)
- * Hyflodraulic Limited, 5:09.50
- The Cahill Group, 5:17.50
- Steers Insurance, 5:24.40
- Dawe and Burke, 5:32.70
- Pouch Cove Pharmacy, 5:37.20
- * Atlantic Towing, 5:39.74
- Kennedy Cleaning Services, 5:44.81
- India Gate, 5:49.00
- Veuve Clicquot, 5:50.27
- First General, 5:57.59
- * Sisters in Fitness Rowing Crew, 6:09.15
- PF Collins, 6:10.26
- * Stewart McKelvey, 6:12.21
- Kvaerner, 6:12.83
- Hazmasters, 6:13.22
- * Medavie Blue Cross, 6:16.00
- Domino’s Pizza, 6:17.78
- Yetman’s Shingles Ltd., 6:21.13
- * Discovery Center, 6:31.61
- Universal Corporate Wear, 6:33.21
- * Avalon Animal Hospital, 6:34.57
- Premium Waste Services, 6:35.44
- A Fitness, 6:41.60
- Go! Store-Petroservice, 6:42.24
- Yoga Therapy NL, 6:44.41
- * Home Hardware St. John’s. 6:45.95
- Ziggy Peel Good’s, 6:47.93
- RestNL Mattresses, 6:49.40
- United Steel Workers, 6:49.45
- The Telegram/Robin’s Donuts, 6:50.05
- IG Wealth Management, 6:53.44
- * Avara FAST RNs, 6:54.30
- Island Insulation Inc, 6:59.40
- The PaceMakers, 7:01.62
- Key Assets, 7:20.10
- Splash Center Harbour Grace, 7:20.40
- Newfoundland Power, 7:23.80
- Equinor Canada, 7:28.83
- Speuata Security, 7:29.80
- College of the North Atlantic, 7:38.10
- Astro Roofing Rowing Crew, 8:13.30
- Morrow, Morrow and Crosbie, 8:36.00
- X Thorne’s Trailer Park
- X Triple E Painters
Senior male (15)
- * Fine Strokes, 9:23.00
- Belfor, 9:31.90
- NTV, 9:38.40
- Smith Stockley, 9:59.60
- Ricanna Petroleum Consulting, 10:09.30
- * NF Power, 10:25.30
- Team Broken Earth M5, 10:54.20
- * Geotech Services, 11:14.00
- Piatto Pizzeria, 11.40
- Jenn’s Crew, 11:41.00
- Domino’s Pizza, 11:45.10
- Madsen Group, 11:55.60
- Newfoundland Herald, 12:24.00
- Smith Stockley Lakers, 13:41.64
- Curbex Signs, 13:50.04
Masters female (6)
- * Wedgewood Physiotherapy/Power Conditioning, 5:58.45
- TLC Home Care Incorporated, 6:04.33
- John Callahan Realty, 6:35.85
- Boulder Books/McDonald’s Home Hardware, 6:43.53
- Compulsult, 6:51.30
- * HorizonAire, 6:53.60
Masters male (2)
- * Lamb’s Rum, 10:28.86
- Hearn Distributing, 10:30.75
Intermediate male (2)
- * Embrace Orthodontics, 10:48.79
- Harbour Grace Ocean Enterprises, 11:53.34
Intermediate female (1)
- Hampidjan Canada, 6:28.60
Juvenile female (4)
- * Dominion Securities, 6:04.30
- Keep Cool Refrigeration, 6:06.10
- Martin Surveys, 6:21.00
- St. Bon’s Girls, 6:48.00
Juvenile male (1)
- All-Star Rebar, 12:22.16
Midget female (13)
- * O’Leary Stables, 6:24.80
- Smith Stockley, 6:45.50
- Freightway International, 6:58.20
- * Big Ben’s, 6:58.09
- Conner’s Construction/Oceaneering, 7:13.40
- Black and McDonald, 7:13.60
- East Coast Mortgage Brokers, 7:40.99
- O’Keefe’s Roofing. 7:47.60
- Mary Brown’s Avalon Mall, 7:48.00
- Jost Winery, 7:57.78
- Tim Horton’s/Caul’s/Sam Roberts Cement Finishing, 8:08.49
- Harbour Grace Midget Girls, 8:26.00
- X Orthodontics Associates
Midget male (6)
- * Hickman Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, 5:36.16
- Wilkins Auto Repair, 5:58.91
- TargaNL, 6:08.91
- Western Start Trucks, 6:12.64
- Crosbie Engineering, 6:29.99
- X Baccalieu Trail Animal Hospital
Squirt female (12)
- * Universal Corporate Wear 2, 2:58.66
- * Action Insurance, 3:03.33
- Matrix Construction, 3:04.38
- St. John’s International Airport, 3:07.58
- Evans NewLeaf, 3:11.10
- Outer Cove Tacten Industrial Services, 3:12.31
- RBC Rowing Raptors, 3:16.09
- Martin Surveys, 3:21.00
- * HydroWise, 3:44.19
- Universal Corporate Wear 1, 4:29.34
- The Cabinet Maker, 5:13.32
- Frontier Subsea. 5:59.39
Squirt male (5)
- * Stroke And Bow Rowing Club, 2:54.89
- Boland And Associates Chartered Professional Accountants, 3:18.65
- TD Bank, 3:25.65
- Madsen Group, 3:39.59
- JMJ Holdings Limited, 5:01.80
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