Welcome to the new committee!

18 Oct

Following our recent AGM, the club would like to welcome the new committee elect to their posts:

President: Damo

Vice-President: Jason

Secretary: Jess

Treasurer/Registrar: Stef

Committee: Chris, Bill, Darren, and Garry.

Stay tuned for more action from these folks.

Start of the new season and AGM

31 Aug

Training for the 2011-2012 season starts on Tuesday 6th of September at 6pm. Now is the perfect time to come and try the sport, or to ease yourself back in – just drop us a line. We will be training Tuesdays and Thursdays 6pm and Saturdays 8am. We have 1o weeks of training before our first regatta in Tasmania on the 11th-13th of November! So let’s see if we can hold on to our Zone champion trophy…

Our AGM will be on Saturday the 17th of September, and the trophies from the 2010-2011 season will be presented.

Geelong Regatta 2011 – Results

15 Feb

What an awesome weekend of paddling by the Melbourne Outrigger Canoe Club team, some of the highlights were:

  • MOCC took out first place in every OC6 event, men’s, women’s and mixed
  • Our Master Men’s team raked in maximum points
  • We took 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Men’s OC1 Sprint
  • 6 of our open men finished in the top 10 in the OC1 Marathon
  • MOCC took out the Victorian Zone Championship Trophy
  • The Opens Men’s OC6 team took out the Glen Noonan Trophy
  • MOCC awarded lifetime memberships to Warwick Ford and Brendan Condon

We have set ourselves up to take the overall Victorian Zone Points Championship Trophy off Tassie’s hands this year if we can get a strong contingent over to the Adelaide Regatta, the last of the Zone Grand Prix Regatta’s for this season. Adelaide Regatta is on the 12th – 13th March, so lock in the dates and get ready for an epic road trip to SA.

Some photos from the event:

Our open men's team: winners of the men's marathon and the Glen Noonan trophy

Women's marathon team take to the water

Women's marathon team bring it in to finish

Our mascot takes a break

The history and future of our sport, a lovely festival day down in Geelong

Our OC2 mixed teams: James and Andrea, Erica and Steve at the starting line

The starting line for the mixed marathon

Our winning team in the mixed marathon coming in to finish

Geelong Regatta January 2011

23 Dec

The next regatta will be held at Eastern Beach, Geelong on the Australia Day weekend, 22nd-23rd January 2011.

The program includes mens, womens and mixed OC1, OC2 and OC6 marathon and sprints. Nominations are due by the 8th of January through the AOCRA website.

There will be a come and try for new paddlers at 2pm on Sunday the 23rd, all members of the public welcome.