The race day program for the 2019 Royal St. John’s Regatta will be determined following today’s Time Trials on Quidi Vidi Lake.
The Trials get under way at 8 a.m., with 24 races scheduled. A total of 113 crews are registered — 81 female and 32 male teams (see breakdown of crews below).
Teams are slotted for Regatta Day races within their gender/age-groups based upon times they row in the Trials 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 Regatta Committee will take all of the times from the Trials and use them to create a master schedule for the Regatta, set for Aug. 7.
Outer Cove men and m5 women had the fastest times in last year’s Trials. Neither team is back to row in the 201st Regatta.
Breakdown of crews per group for 2019 Royal St. John’s Regatta Time Trials:
Masters male (rowers 46 or older as of December 31 this year) — 2
Masters female (rowers 41 or older as of December 31 this year) — 6
Senior male (open to all registered oarsmen and women) — 15
Senior female (open to all registered oarsmen and women) — 43
Intermediate male (under-21 as of December 31 this year) — 2
Intermediate female (under-21 as of December 31 this year) — 2
Juvenile male (under-18 as of December 31 this year) — 1
Juvenile female (under-18 as of December 31 this year) — 4
Midget male (under-16 as of December 31 this year) — 7
Midget female (under-16 as of December 31 this year) — 13
Squirt male (rowers between age of 10-13 as of December 31 this year) — 5
Squirt female (rowers between age of 10-13 as of December 31 this year) — 13
