I am sorry to say that, as the Chairman of the Club and the Regatta Organiser, I am cancelling the Ross Regatta this year.

The cancellation is unprecedented and the Regatta Committee has done everything it possibly could to allow the event to proceed. However, with the low water levels on the river and the forecast August heatwave, it would be unsafe for us to allow competition on such a small amount of water.

There are some moves afoot to still make some use of the weekend but there will be no racing events taking place.

I know this is not news you wanted to hear, but I’ve tried everything I could think of to still hold the regatta, even looking into the release of water upstream by the Environment Agency but all efforts have failed.

Cancelling two weeks before allows me to not forfeit heavy cancellation fees to services that we lease for the regatta and there really is no expectation of heavy precipitation across mid-Wales in the next few weeks. Also cancelling now means that clubs can plan to do other things with the bank holiday weekend.

Tim Davies

Chairman

Ross Rowing Club