Rowing
14 November, 2025
Remarkable regatta
THE weekend was full of activity in Dimboola with the annual regatta attracting more than 200 entries to the town.
Host Mick Salter was very pleased, calling it “a great weekend of rowing”.
“(There were) a lot of clubs from over Victoria that came, and they love coming to Dimboola,” he said.
“All up, 189 athletes came, so there was 206 entries for the weekend.”
Despite the somewhat colder and windier conditions on Saturday, he said the topography of the river still allowed the competition to have acceptable rowing.
“The river sits fairly low in the banks at Dimboola, so although it might have been windy on the top banks, where everyone's sitting and watching, but down on the water it was pretty good,” Mr Salter said.
“The racing started at eight o'clock in the morning and went through to 5.15 at night, so it was a full day of rowing.
“Socially, it was a great event – of course, there was a market around the rowing area as well, the twilight market.
“Then on Sunday, we had the head race, which was held over 6.2 (kilometres), and the weather was sensational for that.”
Mr Salter said the reaction from all who attended was extremely positive, and the quality of rowing was high.
“Feedback from the rowers, especially on the Sunday – (they were) saying, what a great weekend it was,” he said.
“Probably one of the highlights was on Sunday, where a quad four from Essendon Rowing Club set the fastest time, which included beating a number of eights.
“They came home in exceptional time.”