Rondebosch Rowing

🚘CAR BOOT SALE-THIS SATURDAY🚘
✨A RBHS ROWING CLUB Fundraising Event✨
WHEN: This Saturday, 23 May 2026
FROM: 9am-2pm
WHERE: Rondebosch Boys’ High School (Entrance on Oakhurst road)
✨ 105 car boot sellers
✨ New & pre-loved 👗 Clothes 📚 Books 🧸 Toys 🍴 Kitchenware 🌿 Garden items 
🍪 A variety of tasty treats: samosas, biscuits, jams, nuts, pastries & more!
Bring your friends, family, shopping bags 🛍️
✨Get ready for an amazing day of browsing and bargain hunting!
✨ Don’t miss it—see you there!

Any questions, email [email protected]

Congratulations, Gents✨💛💙

🚣‍♂️ Our RBHS Rowers travelled to Gauteng this weekend to compete in the 2026 SA Senior Champs Regatta. Jonathan Dellbridge and Joshua Smith, were selected to represent the Western Cape in the coxless four, pair and scull.
Micah Rademeyer, Thomas Bassingthwaighte, Travis Suter, Nicholas Lumb, James Arnott and Liam Cass competed as part of the Western Cape Schools Rowing Initiative.
These Western Cape Rowers and returned home with excellent results! 💪🏅. RBHS’s Nick Lumb was unfortunately unable to compete, but remained a key part of the U16 team’s success.
Some of the Western Cape results🏅💙:
JM18 2- WCSRF- BRONZE
MB 8+ WCSRF- SILVER
MA 4- WCRA- BRONZE
JM16 4+ WCSRF- GOLD
JM16 2- WCSRF- GOLD
MB 4- WCSRF- BRONZE
JM18 4+ WCSRF- GOLD
We look forward to seeing some amazing Western Cape Talent as we move toward the season ahead✨

🌟Congratulations to Joshua Smith and Jonathan Dellbridge, who were selected to represent the Western Cape in the Coxless Four event at the South African Senior Rowing Championships! 🚣‍♂️
The following U16 boys have been selected for the Western Cape Schools Development Team …Micah Rademeyer, Thomas Bass, Nicholas Lumb, James Arnott, Liam Cass, Travis Suter (Cox)
They’ll be joining forces with rowers from Peninsula Girls Rowing Club and South African College Schools to compete under the banner of the Western Cape Schools Rowing Federation (WCSRF)! 🌊
These gent have put in the work, stayed dedicated, and trained relentlessly 💪 Wishing them the very best as they take on the competition at the upcoming regatta 🌟
Catch all the race action here👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/YGZLAv8ZTZ4

✨Celebrating our incredible Bosch Rowing team after their weekend at the SA School Champs in Gauteng. They showed true grit, determination and gave 110%. Well done to all our rowers on a particularly challenging regatta. This season has brought our RBHS rowing community together with true GEES and we look forward to seeing what the next season brings for our Gents. 💪✨
Our Finals Results:
U16 4+, 5th (Rademeyer, Cass, Bassingthwaighte, Lumb, Suter)
U16 2x, 5th (Rademeyer and Cass)
U16 2-, 7th (Rademeyer and Cass)
U19 2-, 7th (Ellis and Smith)
U19 2x, 6th (Wyatt and Arnold)
U19 4+, 4th (Ellis, De Beer, Dellbridge, Smith, Riddell)
U19 4x, 4th (Dommisse, Jardine, Nair, Wyatt, Pote)
U19 8+, 6th (Ellis, Smith, Dommisse, De Beer, Dellbridge, Nair, Kerschbaumer, Jardine, Riddell)

Wishing all of our Rondebosch Rowing Boys all of the best for SA Champs 2026! Row strong, row proud, Rondebosch!

Only a few portions left! Last chance to put in your order for chicken curry, rice and sambals - a fresh hot dinner waiting for you AND you get to support Rondebosch Rowing!

We know how much you support our boys - well here is a chance for us to support you while you support us supporting our boys. Know what I mean? No?

Well you know how Friday rolls around and you wonder what am I going to cook for dinner tonight? Well, take this Friday off as a special treat from Rondebosch Rowing. Just get your order in by Wednesday the 18th and consider your dinner sorted. Hot, fresh, fragrant and delicious - order your Butter Chicken Curry from the link below, fetch it on the RBHS campus outside the ergo room between 4.30 and 6.30. Dinner. sorted!

This offer is open to all in our extended community - and if you do not know where the Ergo room is - it is behind the Carlton Lloyd Stands next to the Rugby Fields. You actually cannot miss it. And you won't want to miss out. Order 1, 2,3 or even 4 portions - we all know curry is even yummier the next day! Info and links below and as always - thank you for supporting our boys!

Support Our Rowing Boys 🍽️🚣‍♂️
raise funds for their end-of-year Crabs Dinner — and you can support them and skip cooking on a Friday!

🍗 Butter Chicken with Basmati rice & sambals Meals

👉 Order here: https://www.rondeboschrowing.co.za/shop/butter-chicken/
Details:
•⁠ ⁠R100 per meal (500g of deliciousness)
•⁠ ⁠Halaal from Nawaal’s Kitchen
•⁠ ⁠⁠Orders close on Wednesday 18th Feb
•⁠ ⁠Collection: Next Friday, 16:30–18:30
•⁠ ⁠Pick-up point: In front of the ERG room (behind the stands)
•⁠ ⁠Perfect timing for family dinner!

Thank you for supporting our boys 🙌

We know how much you support our boys - well here is a chance for us to support you while you support us supporting our boys. Know what I mean? No?

Well you know how Friday rolls around and you wonder what am I going to cook for dinner tonight? Well, take this Friday off as a special treat from Rondebosch Rowing. Just get your order in by Wednesday the 18th and consider your dinner sorted. Hot, fresh, fragrant and delicious - order your Butter Chicken Curry from the link below, fetch it on the RBHS campus outside the ergo room between 4.30 and 6.30. Dinner. sorted!

This offer is open to all in our extended community - and if you do not know where the Ergo room is - it is behind the Carlton Lloyd Stands next to the Rugby Fields. You actually cannot miss it. And you won't want to miss out. Order 1, 2,3 or even 4 portions - we all know curry is even yummier the next day! Info and links below and as always - thank you for supporting our boys!

Support Our Rowing Boys 🍽️🚣‍♂️
raise funds for their end-of-year Crabs Dinner — and you can support them and skip cooking on a Friday!

🍗 Butter Chicken with Basmati rice & sambals Meals

👉 Order here: https://www.rondeboschrowing.co.za/shop/butter-chicken/
Details:
•⁠ ⁠R100 per meal (500g of deliciousness)
•⁠ ⁠Halaal from Nawaal’s Kitchen
•⁠ ⁠⁠Orders close on Wednesday 18th Feb
•⁠ ⁠Collection: Next Friday, 16:30–18:30
•⁠ ⁠Pick-up point: In front of the ERG room (behind the stands)
•⁠ ⁠Perfect timing for family dinner!

Thank you for supporting our boys 🙌

In the grand theatre of rowing, while the rowers look like the action heroes—muscles flexing, oars slicing, sweat flying—the true mastermind sits facing the wrong way and somehow runs the entire show. Yes, the coxswain.

The coxswain is part tactician, part motivational speaker, part meteorologist, and part benevolent dictator. They weigh less than your average gym bag but carry the psychological mass of a small planet. With nothing but a mic (and sometimes only their voice above the wind) and supreme confidence, they command four or eight towering athletes who could bench-press them without breaking rhythm.

Need strategy? The coxswain has splits memorized like sacred scripture - which sometimes even makes it on board. Need steering? They thread that toothpick shell of a hull through chaos with the calm of a Formula 1 driver. Need motivation? They can transform “I’m tired” into “I would row through a hurricane for you.” There is a valid reason our coxes get carried!

In short, the coxswain is the only person in sport who can yell “POWER TEN!” and be universally adored for it. Rowers may move the boat—but the coxswain moves the rowers.

Let's hear it for the amazing COXES of Bosch rowing!

While we gear up for SA Champs - who wants more photos from Buffalo & Selborne Sprints??