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Dear All

Having spent the day setting up for the regatta and getting everything ready to go, the weather gods have turned against us. The river level is now expected to be higher than anticipated and reluctantly we have decided to cancel both days of the regatta. We feel it is unlikely that we would be able to run the races safely on either day and wanted to make the decision earlier rather than leave it to the last minute. We hope this will allow you to make alternative plans for the weekend.

Thank you for your support and I hope it will not put you off entering our events in the future. In fact we are now looking for a date to reschedule our regatta later in the summer.

Once again, I am sorry we have had to make this decision, but we genuinely thought we would be able to run. I hope you appreciate we tried.

With kind regards

Carol Lovelock ERC

Friday 2pm

Evesham Saturday Regatta will now be run over the sprint course, same draw, just slight changes in times to follow. Sunday is planned to run as scheduled. All river level dependent.

Friday 1pm

Firstly, my apologies for keeping you waiting. We are keen to give your crews a race on Saturday, but river levels will slow things down too much to allow the 1000m course to be run. We are now planning to run the same draw over the Sprint Course on Saturday. We realise this is not what you signed up for, but hope you are keen to have a race of some sort, rather than nothing.

Should you decide to scratch, we would refund your entry fee, but would ask you to consider your opposition before doing so, especially if it means a straight final is wiped out.

A new race schedule will be published. The race order will remain unchanged but the race intervals are slightly different and we will take into account the events that have been taken out.

The landing stage will be under water by a few inches, so wellies will be needed.

There is still a chance that the river will rise to a level where we have to cancel, but we hope this will ot be the case. With dry weather over Saturday, Sunday should be fine.

The good news is that we have been given permission to use the Crown Meadow, so trailers will be parked there. We hope to park cars there too, but will check the condition of the surface in the morning and monitor this during the day, and if it starts cutting up, cars may have to park elsewhere.

Anyone bringing a trailer this evening, please text me with your ETA. 07759578236.

Update Thursday Evening 2.5.24

We think that we will be able to run Sunday as scheduled. We are less certain about Saturday but there is still a strong chance that we will be able to run it with some changes, so do not want to cancel at this stage. We will have a better idea tomorrow about the river level we can expect for Saturday morning, so will update you again midday tomorrow. I’m sorry we can’t be more certain, but I’m sure you understand that we would like to run the event if at all possible.

We think it prudent to take some events out on Saturday, so are cancelling the J15 & WJ15 1x and the J14 2x. Please give my apologies to your crews, I know how disappointed they will be.

Please contact us if you have any questions.