Hugh Elwes, Al Davidson, Nick Digby and Rory Carnegie are preparing to row the length of the River Thames. The surnames of the ‘4 Dads Row’ may be familiar as you are likely to know their sons (or your junior rower will), who all row for the British Team and were successful NSR competitors; Sholto Carnegie won the Championship Quads for Marlow Rowing Club in 2013, Tom Digby won Championship Eights for Abingdon School in 2014, Freddie Davidson won Championship Pairs for St Paul’s School in 2016 and Charlie Elwes won Coxed Four for Radley College in 2016.  These four GB rowers have just returned from a successful weekend in Szeged at the European Championships.

The ‘4 Dads Row’ crew, are all firm friends following years of shared experiences as spectators, Hugh Elwes said

‘We have all been watching our sons from the towpath achieving amazing things for many years, but we also came to realise that none of us dads could actually row – we had all done other sports like cycling and rugby. So, this year we decided to get out there and learn to row and take on a formidable challenge of rowing the Thames, including the Tideway course, to raise as much money as possible for charity.’