Highlights
- Advice from Rowing Queensland coaching director Alan Roafe falls on fertile ground!
- CRC achieves serious rowing success.
- CRC wins every Queensland Championship Men’s 8+ from 1984–1989.
- CRC wins Queensland Championship Women’s 8+ in 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 and 1986.
- 20 Australian selections and gold is won on the world stage!
- Still ramping up revenue with pub raffles until illegal parking revenue becomes a thing.
- CRC enjoys a lot of local and regional regattas but is now also attending national regattas.
1985 – Adair Ferguson wins the World Rowing Championship LW1x — the 1st female rower in Australia to win a World Championship. Coached by Noel Langton.
1986 – Mal Batten represents Australia in the World Rowing Championship M8+. CRC photographs its monumental 7 Australian representatives!
1988 – Mal Batten competes in Olympic Games in Seoul in the M2-.
1988 – Orchestrated by Wal Hughes, CRC organises potentially illegal car parking arrangements for Expo 88 with cars directed to every available nook and cranny, including down the pontoon ramp. It provides a great boost to revenue.
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