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Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024
Regattas+ Seat Search Feature Goes Live
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Seat Search as a concept began at the 1998 Gay Games when the WHOars needed a coxie for their 8+ and 4+. With the launch of Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation website in 2003, we offered a Seat Search feature for featured regattas. The idea of using a database was not really feasible for the website tools we were using at the time so the capabilities were limited.
Fast forward to December 2024 and now Rower Seat Search and Club Seat Search is a default feature in any Regattas+ listing. For example, if a GLRF member added the Head of the Yarra in Melbourne as a Regattas+ listing, a rower could submit a seat search to race in a boat, and a rowing club or program could list a Club Seat Search for an opening in their boat maybe for a cox or for 6-seat.
What’s the difference between a Rower Seat Search and a Club Seat Search? For a rower whose club is not going to a regatta or who wants to race in more than just one entry, the Rower Seat Search helps a rower announce that they are looking for an open seat in a race. For a club or program that perhaps wants to enter two races but only has rowers for one boat and is short one or more for a second race, the Club Seat Search helps a to fill a boat.
Each Seat Search entry leverages the GLRF member profile to display key rower and coxie profile of data that is important for filling a boat. The Seat Search feature provides for three categories: sweep, scull, and cox. Seat Searches can be made for each category, “rower looking for …” and “club seeking a …”
If this was available in 1998, the WHOars would have submitted a Club Seat Search for a coxie.
Regattas+ is part of the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation community platform that enables members to add their own regattas, ergattas, and rowing camps/clinics. Every Regattas+ listing creates community for LGBTQ rowers by providing a RSVP-like members going feature, comments feature, upload files, and share images.
Whether it is the Head of the Mississippi regatta or the Covered Bridge regatta or a Eurogames regatta, GLRF is helping to create community among LGBTQ+ rowers.
Of course, allies can join GLRF and add a Regattas+ listing. GLRF doesn’t ask anyone’s sexual orientation.
Fast forward to December 2024 and now Rower Seat Search and Club Seat Search is a default feature in any Regattas+ listing. For example, if a GLRF member added the Head of the Yarra in Melbourne as a Regattas+ listing, a rower could submit a seat search to race in a boat, and a rowing club or program could list a Club Seat Search for an opening in their boat maybe for a cox or for 6-seat.
What’s the difference between a Rower Seat Search and a Club Seat Search? For a rower whose club is not going to a regatta or who wants to race in more than just one entry, the Rower Seat Search helps a rower announce that they are looking for an open seat in a race. For a club or program that perhaps wants to enter two races but only has rowers for one boat and is short one or more for a second race, the Club Seat Search helps a to fill a boat.
Each Seat Search entry leverages the GLRF member profile to display key rower and coxie profile of data that is important for filling a boat. The Seat Search feature provides for three categories: sweep, scull, and cox. Seat Searches can be made for each category, “rower looking for …” and “club seeking a …”
If this was available in 1998, the WHOars would have submitted a Club Seat Search for a coxie.
Regattas+ is part of the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation community platform that enables members to add their own regattas, ergattas, and rowing camps/clinics. Every Regattas+ listing creates community for LGBTQ rowers by providing a RSVP-like members going feature, comments feature, upload files, and share images.
Whether it is the Head of the Mississippi regatta or the Covered Bridge regatta or a Eurogames regatta, GLRF is helping to create community among LGBTQ+ rowers.
Of course, allies can join GLRF and add a Regattas+ listing. GLRF doesn’t ask anyone’s sexual orientation.
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2025 Sin City Erg Regular Registration Deadline Regattas+ Seat Search feature is now active
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GLRF membership drive – refer rowers and earn a free t-shirt
Last Chance for Lifetime recurring OnTheWater fee
Follow Us on Bluesky
Share A Link - an international database of inclusive rowing clubs
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glrfcentral,2025 Sin City Erg
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The Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation will host our fourth indoor rowing event, an ergatta, on Sunday 19 January 2025, in Las Vegas. The Sin City Erg is presented for the worldwide LGBTQ+ indoor and outdoor rowing community, age 13 and over. The event is inclusive to the broader rowing community and everyone is welcome so bring your straight teammates to compete! The ergatta is part of the Sin City Classic, the largest annual LGBTQ+ multi-sport event in the world.
If you're looking at the tags and wondering what the 2X, 4X and 8+ is all about, that's because this event is offering standard individual races as well as team events. Everyone registers, then we get a line up for the team events and plug it in the computer. The race runs just like an individual race, except the lineup for each boat is calculated by the computer to show the combined time of the team boat compared to other team boats. First across the line wins, just like on the water. Sounds like a great challenge for university teams, for junior teams, for club teams ....
If you're looking at the tags and wondering what the 2X, 4X and 8+ is all about, that's because this event is offering standard individual races as well as team events. Everyone registers, then we get a line up for the team events and plug it in the computer. The race runs just like an individual race, except the lineup for each boat is calculated by the computer to show the combined time of the team boat compared to other team boats. First across the line wins, just like on the water. Sounds like a great challenge for university teams, for junior teams, for club teams ....
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