Our facilities and fleet

 

We are based at Royal Docks Watersports at the Royal Albert Dock in East London. Our rowing water is the only 2 km straight-line course in London, with pontoons for easy boating. The centre has a large boat shed as well as changing facilities, and we have more boats racked outdoors.

The centre also has an eight-seat indoor rowing tank with pumps for technical training. We use the tank for our Otterpups Learn to Row courses as well as for our squads when conditions mean we can’t row on the water.

Our fleet

We have a large and growing fleet of boats across all classes, from our Bee singles to our senior 8+s, Rush and Muppet. For the Otterpups courses we have four wooden ‘lake boat’ quadruple sculls that provide a safe and stable platform for their first sculling on the water.

    • LOT802 Rush

    • LOT803 Robert Forbes

    • LOT804 Freyja

    • LOT805 Sappho

      Named for the Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, who wrote about loving women and hence gives us the words ‘sapphic’ and ‘lesbian’

    • LOT806 Buffy

    • LOT807 Muppet

    • LOT401 David

    • LOT402 Warwick

      Named for one of our co-founders, Warwick Lobban

    • LOT403 Rear Gunner Dai Morgan

    • LOT404 Ralphie

      Named for one of our co-founders, Grant ‘Ralphie’ Ralph

    • LOT405 Ken Locke

    • LOT406 Tarka

      Named after the classic 1927 novel Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

    • LOT407 Luke V

      Named for our original coach, Luke Vernall, on the club’s tenth anniversary

    • LOT408 Safe Haven

    • LOT409 Claret & Blue

    • LOT410

    • LOT411 Jo Jo

      Named for Alex Jones and Tony Jordan at Red Planet Pictures, who sponsored the boat

    • LOT201 Parisha Dhirendra Joshi

      Named by former chair Craig Batton, who won a fundraiser, after a long-term friend and her late father

    • LOT202 Royal Bank of Canada Pride

      Sponsored by Royal Bank of Canada

    • LOT203 Fidelity Pride

      Sponsored by Fidelity International

    • LOT204 Good Buoy

    • LOT205 Bow Curious

    • LOT206 Peter Gumpesberger

      Named for a member of the club who died in 2019 of prostate cancer, this is the second boat to bear his name after the original was retired from the fleet

    • LOT101 OU-1

    • LOT102 Bertie

    • LOT103 Honey Bee

    • LOT104 Busy Bee

    • LOT105 Worker Bee

    • LOT106 Bumble Bee

    • LOT107 Queen Bee

    • Mike Gratton

    • Hiromi Taniguchi

    • Hugh Jones

    • David Holding