Putney Town Rowing Club

Putney Town Rowing Club is a rowing club on the tideway, the tidal reach of the River Thames in England. Its official ARA registered colours are navy and white.HistoryThe club was founded at the Half Moon Hotel, Putney in 1922 where it decided to base itself underneath the Duke's Head pub in Putney.Since 1986 PTRC has occupied a boathouse in Kew. This allowed the club to expand, but its one-storey building was burnt down in 1992 by arson. The current boathouse was purpose-built in 1995 to create a large hall, bar, meeting room, changing areas and racking for a large number of boats, inside and outside.On 26 October 2005, Putney Town had celebrated 10 years of the new boathouse with "Phoenix Party", where the entire fleet was taken out and rowed past the clubhouse, in front of a number of old members and local dignatories.Equipment and facilitiesThe club house is at Townmead Road, Kew, just upstream of Chiswick Bridge on the southern (Surrey) bank of the river. The ground floor consists of a boatshed and a weight lifting area. The first floor has a large gym, bar, kitchen and changing rooms.All the Men's crews are equipped with Empacher 8's (5 in total, 2 wing riggered) and 4-'s (3 Empacher, 1 sims, 2 Janies). The Women's crews have access to a new Filippi and an Empacher 8. Also available to all members are a number of Empacher/Sims/Eton Racing Boats/Janousek eights, fours/quads and pairs/doubles and singles.