We are delighted to announce that City of Cambridge RC are the winners of the 2025 Davison Award. This discretionary award for the standout performance from a small club was created in 2018 in memory of Noel Davison, who was Honorary Secretary of…
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Weather Update: Storm Claudia
We are aware that considerable amounts of rain are forecast on Thursday night and on Friday. We are monitoring the situation, but at this stage do not expect that this will impact the Fours Head on Saturday, 15 November 2025.…
Fours Head 2025 entries now suspended – next steps
Entries for the Fours Head 2025 were suspended as planned on Thursday, 23 October. The race is FULL and we do not expect to re-open for additional entries before the Official Close of Entries at noon on Friday, 31 October…
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Pre-order your Fours Head sweatshirts now and save!
Our stylish Fours Head sweatshirts are available now at £30 each, but the price will be going up to £35 from race day and onwards, so pre-order yours now and save! You can collect your order from the Rock the…
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Join the Fours Head Committee!
The Fours Head Committee is keen to take on one or two new general members with a view to succession planning for a number of roles and responsibilities. As well as supporting in person on race day in November, the…
RIP Richard du Parcq
The Committee of the Fours Head was very sad to hear of the death of Dr Richard du Parcq earlier this week. He had been ill for some months. Richard served the Fours Head as Entries Secretary for 18 years…
Fours Head Entries: Changes for 2025
This year’s Fours Head will take place on Saturday, 15 November 2025, at the centre of the three-day ‘festival’ of fours racing that also includes the new Junior Fours Head on the Friday and the Veteran Fours Head on the…
Changes to Fours Head Events following the launch of the Junior Fours Head
The Committee of the Fours Head warmly welcomes the addition of the Junior Fours Head to the racing calendar. As our race has been over-subscribed for many years, it is clear that more racing capacity is needed for high quality…
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2024 Fours Head refunds
The Fours Head Committee is pleased to announce a refund of £70 per crew from the entry fee of £80 paid. When deciding the level of refund, the Committee sought to strike a balance between being fair to competitors and…
Thanks for joining the Virtual Fours Head today
The weather outside was indeed frightful, but Fours Head Chairman Richard Phelps was delighted to welcome lots of members of the rowing community at the Virtual Fours Head this morning. During the warmup, Martin Cross interviewed Olympic Champion James Rudkin,…
Row the Virtual Fours Head with ZoomErgos on Sunday (9am)
Following yesterday’s disappointing news that the Fours Head 2024 has been cancelled, the Fours Head Committee are pleased to announce the virtual Fours Head in conjunction with ZoomErgos and featuring a special Crossy’s Corner. Anyone can attend; those that had…
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The 2024 Fours Head is CANCELLED
We are very disappointed to announce that the 2024 Fours Head is cancelled due to a combination of wind strength and wind direction associated with Storm Bert, which is forecast for this weekend. We have been monitoring a number of…
Weather update: Tuesday, 19 November 2024
The committee is closely monitoring the weather forecast for Sunday. We will make a further announcement by 22:00 on Thursday, 21 November 2024.
THANK YOU to the host clubs
With 344 visiting crews from 100 different clubs taking part in this year's race, we're totally dependent on the generous hospitality and hard work of the 21 host clubs along the Tideway for enabling the Fours Head to take place.…
Fours Head sweatshirts now on sale!
£5 from the sale of each sweatshirt (retailing at £30) will be donated to the race by Rock the Boat, who have produced the sweatshirts in association with the Fours Head. This will help to keep entry fees down. Order…
Fours Head 2024: Entries now CLOSED
At noon today (Friday, 8 November), we reached the official Close of Entries for the 2024 Fours Head. 465 entries have been accepted, from 127 different clubs. We are very, very sorry that we couldn't fit in the other 230…
WOX webinar on navigating the Tideway
Experienced coxes from ‘The Winning Cox’ (aka WOX) are hosting a free webinar at 20:00 on Friday, 15 November about Navigating the Tideway. Join Zoe De Toledo, Morgan Baynham-Williams and Matilda Horn to enhance your marshalling skills and lock in…
2024 Fours Head Waitlists by BROE ID
463 crews have now been accepted in BROE. Crews that still have the status "Submitted" are on the waitlists. There are 4 separate waitlists - for Open Senior, Women's Senior, Open School/Junior, and Women's School Junior (keep scrolling down this…
Entries suspended at noon on 31 October 2024
According to the plan set out on our Entries page, entries were suspended at noon on Thursday, 31 October 2024, having opened 10 days earlier. 695 entries were received, meaning that the race is oversubscribed by 54% overall above the…
Entries status (as at 2pm on Sunday, 27 October 2024)
As has been the trend for many years now, the race is substantially over-subscribed, particularly for junior entries. We are sharing the following information so clubs and crews can manage their expectations, and also to remind Entries Admins to check…
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Fours Head Entries: Changes for 2024
Following major changes to our Entries Process for the 2023, race, we have made some further, minor adjustments for 2024 based on feedback and learnings. Summary of changes We will use the higher of the crew’s RowingCRI or ScullingCRI, irrespective…
2023 Fours Head refunds
The Fours Head Committee met earlier this evening and is pleased to announce a refund of £60 per crew (75% of the entry fee paid). When deciding the level of refund, the Committee had to strike a balance between being…
2023 Fours Head is CANCELLED
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…
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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Jim Hopkins
The members of the Committee of the Fours Head are sad to hear of the death yesterday of Jim Hopkins of Auriol Kensington RC, the competition's President. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family. Jim first took up coxing…
The Fours Head 