Boatclub Kit

Club blazers and stash

Club blazers

M1 rower Ross Buckingham (left) wearing a Mays First Boat Blazer, and 2015-16 Captain Jon Swain (right) wears an M1 Lents Blazer
  • General Club Blazer: black blazer with yellow trim, Clare College crest on the pocket. Need to have rowed in Lent or May Bumps in order to be eligible.
  • First Lents’ Crew: black blazer with yellow trim and coronet on the pocket. Need to have rowed in a First Boat in Lent Bumps to be eligible.
  • First Mays’ Crew: white blazer with hazard tape trim and coronet on the pocket. Need to have rowed May Bumps in a first boat in order to be eligible.

Other symbols: Both Men and Women’s Captain’s are allowed Captain’s buttons.

Competing at Henley Royal Regatta will be defined by the Clare Boat Club Committee if and when needed.

The 2014-2015 committee photo shows all the CBC blazers. White First Mays blazers; the Lents first boat blazer on 2014-15 Captain Richard Gunning (bottom center left); and the general Clare Boat Club blazer, with the crest but no coronet, on Social Secretary Maria Harvey (bottom right). Top left, Social Secretary Callum McKenzie wears a first boat bowtie with his blazer.

You may continue to wear a certain blazer, even if you are no longer eligible – e.g you are eligible to wear a First May’s Crew as long as you rowed/coxed a first boat in a set of May Bumps.
Note: you can order blazers before having rowed in the Bumps competitions, but you cannot wear them before being eligible. It is also worth remembering that it normally takes at least 3-4 weeks to get blazers made at Perry Uniform, but during peak times (before the Boat Race, which is in April, and then before May Bumps) it will take considerably longer.
It is also relatively easy to change the embroidery on the pocket and trim, so ‘upgrading’ a blazer will be fairly easy. [Please note, however, that the hazard tape trim is not allowed on black blazers].
Prices depend on the choice of fabric. A poly/wool blazer costs £215 and pure Wool costs £260.

Bowties and ties:

  • First Boat: plain yellow.
  • Henley: black and yellow, equally thick stripes.

The black bowtie with thin yellow stripes and the white one with thin yellow and black stripes are Clare College bowties, respectively winter and summer ones. As for the bowties, the black tie with thin yellow stripes and the white one with thin yellow and black stripes are Clare College ones.

First Boat bowtie: plain yellow
Henley bowtie: black and yellow, equally thick stripes
Clare College bowtie: black and yellow, thin yellow stripes
First Boat tie: plain yellow
Henley tie: black and yellow, equally thick stripes
Clare College tie: black and yellow, thin yellow stripes

Zephyrs:

  • First Boat Mays: hazard tape and coronet, white shirt.
  • Second Boat Mays: yellow trim, white shirt.
2015 Mays W1 at the boat naming ceremony wearing first boat mays zephyrs. Alumnus Peter Jones wears a Henley tie with his first boat Mays Blazer.
M2 Mays 2016 in lower boats zephyrs

Other stash

Garters:

  • First Boat: thin yellow and black stripes.

Cap:

  • First Mays/Lents: plain yellow
  • General Clare College (although theoretically cricket): yellow and black

StrawBoater:

  • Clare Boat Club: a yellow ribbon is added ontop of the black ribbon

Scarf:

  • Clare Boat Club wraps: plain yellow. It used to be bought just after Clare Novices Regatta, when novices became senior rowers.

Socks:

  • Clare Boat Club: Black socks with two yellowstripes at the top

The stripy black and yellow socks are actually rugby ones, but people do buy them.

Euan Beck (overall captain 2016-17, bottom left) in his cap with Mays M2 2018
2015 Mays W1 show off their garters