At 6am today (Saturday, 4 November) the PLA Ebb Tide Flag Status was changed to RED. We expect this status to remain in place through tomorrow due to the stream conditions upstream. As a result, with much regret, the 2023…
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Update: Friday, 8.00pm
The Fours Head Committee continue to carefully monitor the forecast for Sunday. As of 2000 on Friday, 3 November the Committee are still hopeful that the competition may go ahead on Sunday. However, if it does go ahead, it will…
Update: Friday 9.30am
The Fours Head Committee continue to carefully monitor the forecast for Sunday. As of 0930 on Friday, 3 November the Committee still hope to run the competition on Sunday but anticipate that it will be necessary to reduce the size…
Race status: Thursday, 9pm
The Fours Head Committee currently still intends to run our race as planned but will review the situation on Friday morning.
Tideway on PLA Yellow Flag
The Committee is aware that on Monday evening (30 October 2023), the PLA changed the Ebb Tide Status to yellow. You can check the latest status on the PLA website (scroll to the bottom of the page). We are monitoring…
Entries closed: Next steps
At noon today (Friday, 20 October), we reached the official Close of Entries for the 2023 Fours Head. 475 entries have been accepted. This means that: No more crews will be accepted off the waiting lists. Crews that have not…
Entries accepted: Next steps
Further to our previous announcement after entries were suspended as planned on Thursday, 12 October, we have accepted 468 crews at this point. BROE administrators will have received email notifications of which of their entries have been accepted. Entries that…
Entries now suspended
As set out in our 2023 Entries Process, we suspended for new entries at noon today, 12 October, 10 days after entries opened. Payments and substitutions can still be made: note that crews are not baselined for subs untill the…
2023 Entries – some further notes
We opened for entries at noon today (2 October) and have been delighted that so many clubs continue to want to race at the Fours Head but that you are all also 'keeping calm' and entering at any time over…
Changes to the Fours Head entries process for 2023
Recognising that the Fours Head has been substantially over-subscribed in recent years, the Committee has introduced significant changes to the entries process for the 2023 race. The full entries process for 2023 is set out on our Entries page. Please…
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