The Watersportbaan is a five lane rowing race course in the Belgian city of Ghent. It is 2300 metres long and 76m wide and was first used in 1954. Despite most major international Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) regattas are designed to adhere to the 8-lane Albano format, this race track is suited for 2 medium-sized international FISA Regattas, but also for smaller competitions. The two annual regattas are Spring Regatta (Spring Regatta) and Meiregatta (May - Regatta).
The images here were taken when GLRF visited the water stadium in March 2012. The course takes the shape of a long shaft with a protuding 'head' (no pun intented ... sort of) after the finish line. The course from start to finish is in a South East direction. The images were taken from a bicycle and began at the lower left of the 'head and then proceed counter clockwise around the head and then up the northern edge of the shaft, around the base, and then back up down the course/shaft toward the head ...
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By frisbee · Posted
Joining the Regatta Event
Please I would like to register to this event. Please let me know if I can join!and how to proceed?freestud2@gmail.com
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By glrfcentral · Posted
updated your club in key words
thanks, I updated your club. It's one of the ways to search, by club in the key word search portion of the gallery. Click on the key and you'll see all the images with that keyword characteristic. In this case, just one image so far ...
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By arower · Posted
my club
By the way, I'm with Rock Creek Rowing Club, not Potomac Boat Club.
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By arower · Posted
I look really tired in this
Ha! And the coach wanted me to keep my uni up during the shoot, which I did until we were on our way back to the boathouse when I thought all the picture taking was over with.
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