Archive News from January 2003
Snippets of news and events from earlier months, as shown originally on the Rowing Service News Page.
Standard results/events/etc not shown.
There is a full Rowing Service archive index online.
January 31st 2003
- Ed Hewitt of Row2k put a link on the rec.sport.rowing international newsgroup describing a study into water-induced hypothermia which may be of interest to rowers.
- Derek Gordon has one solution to the problem of attaching lights to boats (UK).
January 30th 2003
- It has been announced in the UK House of Commons that while it will become an offence to operate a vessel in British waters while impaired by alcohol or drugs, rowing boats and sailing dinghies are likely to be exempted.
January 28th 2003
- An ingenious solution to the ratemeter problem - Cadence Rowing in the USA.
January 27th 2003
- Details of the UK Rowing Foundation from the ARA.
January 23rd 2003
- Steve Redgrave's personal website has now been revived, after its initial sponsor Breathe.com collapsed last year. Thoroughly back in action, it includes news and information on all the projects he is spearheading, and if interested you can use the sign-up form to register for regular news updates starting in February.
January 20th 2002
- Mark Pollard has a regatta scheduling freeware program (MS-DOS systems), which he has just sent out to those he knew were interested. If anyone else would like a copy, please email him directly.
January 17th 2002
- In the UK, rowing clothing company Redhead have started up a design it yourself page for their tops (uses Java, may require x-wav plugin to play sound).
January 13th 2003
- Florian Caspari has done a new version of his German/English rowing dictionary, in PDF format and with phonetics. Visit http://www.rowing-xpert.de/ to try it out.
- Chris Boothroyd has put up more pictures of the floods at Henley (UK).
January 8th 2003
- UK flooding pictures - Richard Packer has taken a bunch showing Staines to Weybridge, Anu Dudhia has been snapping the Isis floods in Oxford, and there are 1, 2, 3 and 4 pictures from Peter McConnell of the flooding at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley. PMcC does say that despite this, the Museum is still open, and welcoming visitors.
January 7th 2003
- Now that UK flood waters are subsiding enough for clubs to be able to get to their boats, some Tideway hints for clubs thinking of visiting the reach.
