150th Jubilee

The Event Registration Form for attendance at the jubilee celebration is now available to complete. You can do this by filling out the Microsoft Forms document via the following Event Registration Form link;   Event Registration Form

Registrations close on 1 July 2025. Email invites have gone out to those from whom we have managed to obtain email addresses.

When filling out the form with a device other than a mobile phone, use the tab and arrow keys to move between answer options, or to move to the next question until you get to the submit request.

What to expect at the jubilee events ........

Friday the 1st of August 2025

Registration entitles you to;

• Event packs, available to pick up from the rowing clubrooms from noon onwards.
• The afternoon and evening will be a casual meet and greet, with memorbilia, photo displays, and many of the club’s older wooden skiffs available to view.
• Tables and chairs will be available for you to sit at and enjoy canapes and nibbles in the evening, to go with your BYO drinks.
• A courtesy coach will be available to get you home within the Invercargill city boundary, if you need it.

Saturday the 2nd of August 2025

• Registration packs will continue to be available to pick up in the morning from the clubrooms.
• Those that showed an interest in the registration forms to have a row, (and there are quite a few so far), there will be a booking roster system to enable this to take place, if the weather allows it.
• Past photos and memorbilia will be remain on display within the clubrooms.
• A Southland style lunch will be available for all those who are wearing registration name badges.
• Decade group photos will be taken, along with one that includes all those registered from 1pm onwards.
• The Saturday evening jubilee function and buffet meal will be held at the Ascot Park Hotel. (Further details about activity format will be added later) There will be an opportunity to have past crew group photos taken at this event.

Sunday the 3rd of August 2025.

• There will be a further opportunity to have a row from 9.00am onwards  
• Everybody welcome to gather at the clubrooms for a final catch-up of past and present members and enjoy some more delicous food on offer, along with some informal BYO drinks.

Jubilee costs

• Three days of hospitality and celebrations at the IRC clubrooms $50 per person
• Saturday night jubilee function and meal $65 per person

Merchandise as per images below ordered via registration form:

• Jubilee badge $15
• Jubilee challenge coin* in presentation box $30
• Jubilee cap with embroided logo $40
• Jubilee bucket hat with embroided logo $45
• Jubilee polo shirt with embroided logos $80
• Jubilee hoodie with embroided logos $95
• Jubilee decade photo, A4 size laminated with logo and names $20

* The Challenge Coin has originally come from the military and has expanded into a wide range of agencies and groups. The idea behind a coin is to bond together the group with a common item, In this case its the coin.  Any time any number of the group meets together someone can produce their coin with an expectation that the others in the group will also produce theirs and if not certain rules or consequences apply.  For example : If the group meets at a bar for a drink, the challenge is made when someone puts their coin on the bar, whoever doesn’t or can’t put their coin on the bar too, pays for the round of drinks.  If all coins are presented the one who laid the challenge down with the first coin buys the round.  

Please reach out to as many of your past crew members as possible and encorage them to join you at this milestone club event

The invitation to complete the Event Registration Form has been sent out to as many past members and supporters as we have email address for, but this is only a portion of the many rowers who have been members over the last 150 years. The jubilee committee is relying very heavily on those who have received the invitation to spread the word to as many others as possible and get them to visit the club's website for information and fill out the registration form.

There are paper copies of the Event Registration Form available via current members and at the clubrooms to fill in and return via post, or deliver to 85 Conyers Street, Georgetown, Invercargill 9812, (for those not confident in the use of computers and online forms).