7-8 June 2025
Organised by Lowestoft and Norwich Rowing Clubs and Yare Boat Club.
Supported by the British Rowing Recreational Rowing Committee
To ensure the tour goes ahead please indicate your interest by 1 April if possible using the 'Contact Us' facility on this page
Entries will close on - 1 May 2025
A successful Explore the Broads tour took place 17 - 18 June 2023
Great to see 10 boats and 53 rowers from 14 clubs!
Here is some feedback we have received from previous tours. !
Great fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed myself ….. looking forward to doing it all again!!
Everyone was so welcoming and helpful.
Thanks for organising the tour so efficiently.
Excellent day all round….. a huge thank you to you and your team for organising the tour this weekend. Everything was so well organised, food fantastic. You live in such a beautiful part of the UK. We met some lovely people, and everyone was so friendly and positive.
More details are available on the 'Logistics' and 'Documents' pages - see top of this page.
Full details of how to enter and pay are on the application forms.
Photos of the 2021 tour at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1WW9jnertlv9CohDC6WJIsmlb_BfzE1ji
https://ifotophilia.wordpress.com
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/recrowing
Contact Us
The 2025 tour will be on the water and leaving the Hickling Broad Sailing Club on Saturday morning, stopping for lunch at The Lion at Thurne Horning and finishing the day at the Barton Broad Adventure Centre. The tour will then leave Barton Broad on Sunday at 10am with a stop at for lunch at Horning, finishing at the Norfolk Broads Yacht at Wroxham on Sunday afternoon.
This is a remote and ambitious tour and participants will need to understand the logistical arrangements.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING!
All participants will need to have a place in a car or other passenger vehicle to get to the start and from the finish each day. We will provide taxis to ensure drivers can get to and from their vehicles. We are not travelling in a very large area but there will be some waiting time to transport people at the beginning of each day.
All boats will need to be at Hickling and trailers taken to the finish at Wroxham on the Friday afternoon or evening.
In addition, there is no large hotel central to the area we will be exploring, so participants will need to arrange their own local accommodation. We will not be offering a Saturday evening meal, but people can meet up if they wish to get together.
The event will be for stable, sliding seat ‘Explore’ type quads only, with a maximum of 8 boats. This is a rowing tour and it may be necessary at times to wait for slower boats to catch up, if necessary. There will be no times nor prizes but a memento for taking part.
The fee for the weekend is £70 per person, including the hire of the seat in a boat on both days, lunch and a memento. Lunches on Saturday and Sunday are included. Lunches and a memento can be ordered in advance for helpers or companions if required. Also, we do not wish to encourage single use water bottles in the Broads National Park so please do bring a reusable bottle with you.
Visiting boats will need to have temporary licenses from the Broads Authority. Our organising group can arrange this with information provided by the visiting club.
Entries are invited for whole boats or for a place in a boat and we will endeavour to fit in all individuals if we can. Full details of how to enter and pay are on the application forms. There is a link to the forms on the Logistics page.
Entries will close on - 1 May 2025
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