Founded in 2004, 'Gold Coast Master Rowers Inc.' is a Community Rowing Club that has been based at the Varsity Lakes 'Sports House' on Lake Orr since January 2009.
The Club supports rowing at all levels including people who wish to develop their rowing skills for competition, to those who simply wish to keep fit and healthy.
The Club welcomes applications for Membership from current and previously experienced rowers regardless of gender or background.
“Easy oar”, “let it run”, “bow pair” and the slightly alarming “I caught a crab”. 🦀 To rowers, it all makes perfect sense. To everyone else, we may as well be speaking another language. Our latest blog translates some of the strange things you’ll hear around GCMR and what rowers really mean when they say them.
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We check the wind before our messages, secretly celebrate the occasional cancelled row, blame the boat and have definitely raced another crew who had no idea they were racing. 😂 It’s time to come clean. Confessions of a Masters Rower reveals the habits, excuses and little secrets that every rower will recognise… even if they won’t admit to them.
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