The 203rd Royal St. John’s Regatta will go ahead August 4, depending on the COVID situation and whether public health officials give the annual event the go-ahead.

Brad Power is in the second year of a two-year-term as Regatta Committee President, but has yet to oversee a Regatta due to COVID.

Power jokes he hopes his tenure as Regatta Committee President won’t go down in history for the wrong reasons. He says he’s been connected to the Regatta his entire life, and was excited to make his mark. Unfortunately, the pandemic has not yet provided him with that opportunity.

The committee held its AGM this week and selected Wednesday, August 4 as the date, but Power says anything can happen.

Tely 10 Bumped to Late October

Meanwhile, the race director with the Tely 10, Randy Ball, says the annual running event is being pushed to the fall in hopes that the COVID situation will have subsided and it will be able to go ahead.

The NLAA, the governing body that oversees running events in the province, met over the weekend.

He says they’ve set October 31 for the Tely 10, which had to be cancelled last year because of the pandemic.