Archive News from March 2006

Snippets of news and events from earlier months, as shown originally on the Rowing Service News Page.
Standard results/events/etc not shown.

Friday 31st March 2006
• The inaugural Welsh Boat Race (UK) was run on Wednesday 29th March, on the River Taff. Cardiff won both the men's and women's races (2500m course from downstream of the Millennium Stadium into Cardiff Bay) by clear water.
• RowTV has video clips of crews from the men's Head of the River last weekend (UK). Broadband advised.
• Jamco Times (USA) was experimenting with live audio/video/stats/graphics at the Windermere Regatta last weekend. They're going to do it again this weekend at the San Diego Crew Classic. See the Jamco Times homepage for details and links.
• The draw (Excel format) and poster (PNG image format) for Northwich Easter Head (UK) are now online.
• Details for Abingdon Head (UK) are also online.
• There's a big Boat Race Party being held on Sunday at Clapham Grand (London, UK, near Putney) with a 3am licence.
• Jet Photographic (UK) took pictures of Blues outings on Wednesday 29th March.
• A BBC Radio 4 programme about RC Sherriff is of interest to rowers. A member of Kingston RC, he wrote a play to help them raise money for a boat. The Man from Esher and his Theatre of War can be heard again on Listen again.

  Wednesday 29th March 2006

• Fire in Sydney: Sydney Uni BC's boatshed destroyed by fire this morning. Pictures in the SUBC online gallery. About A$750,000 of damage was done, and the boathouse and 43 boats were totally destroyed. Shocking shame. Local clubs are helping Sydney find boats and training space, particularly for those invited to the National Selection Regatta in April.
• Details online of the Henley Stewards coaching scholarships (MS Word format, UK).
• Bideford Head of the River (UK, May 20th) is open for business. Details on the Bideford ARC website.
• Downing College Cambridge BC's website is now www.downingboatclub.co.uk (UK).

  Tuesday 28th March 2006

• There are two places unexpectedly available on the next Weybridge RC sculling course (UK) - this weekend (1st/2nd April). Tuition by former ltwt world champion Allan Whitwell, details on the club website. This is not a beginners course but aimed at those with single sculling experience who want to improve their technique.
• Dundee University beat Stirling in the Tayford Race. Report and pictures on the link.
• A poster for Evesham Annual & Sprint Regattas (29th & 30th April, UK) is downloadable from the Evesham RC website. Scroll down if you can't see it straight away.
• Entries are open for Wallingford Regatta (UK) - it is usually heavily oversubscribed so get going with your paperwork if you want to enter. Closing date just after Easter.
• CUBC head coach Duncan Holland is willing to make the slides of his talk at the Rowperfect (UK) seminar on seat racing, available by email. He asks for credit if anyone uses or circulates them. Email info@rowperfect.co.uk if interested.

  Monday 27th March 2006

• The ARA website (UK) has been revised, so that now if you type in www.ara-rowing.org you will end up at http://www.oara-rowing.org instead. Login for members who have activated their online codes allows them to change club affiliation listing, update membership and other useful items (a very good move). Somewhat surprisingly the Rowing Service now makes it into the list of links :-), and in another good move the news includes what your club secretaries received recently in the March mailing which may help some under-communicating committees get the information through to their crews. There are glitches, one of which is that it's not a great layout for anything other than Internet Explorer, but it is an improvement. Note that all the page addresses have changed, so those of us with ARA links in our own sites will have a wedge of housekeeping to do. One most will probably need is the link to the ARA Water Safety Code which many sites have shown. Plus, the redirect they've put on www.biro.org.uk for GB international material is incorrect - see http://www.bosonmedia.co.uk/ara/gbrowing/ at the moment if you want GB rowing news, athlete biographies and the rest of the old BIRO site.
• Vesta Vets Head final results (UK).
• The Notice of Regatta for Walton and Weybridge Regatta (formerly Walton Amateur, UK) is online. Date will be Saturday 3rd June.
• The Port of London Authority (Tideway, UK) has updated its event list for April, but if any Tideway rowing events are not on there they they should contact POLA as it means their event is not known about. They're keen to have website links too, if they don't know them. Contact for anyone who does need to announce an event is Sandra West, the Harbour Master's assistant.
• POLA (UK) is also continually updating and improving their Tideway chart.
• Details on Birmingham Regatta (Saturday 6th May, UK), with a PDF poster also available. Entries are preferred through OARA and are now open.
• The Veteran Boat Race (Oxford vs Cambridge, UK) is taking place on Thursday after all, at 2:15pm from Putney to Hammersmith.
• Leeds Univ BC (UK) have broken the BUSA team 100,000m record on ergs, on stage during the main student club night! To the sound of "The Final Countdown" and "We Are the Champions" they pulled their last strokes to set a new time of 4 hours 28 minutes 27 seconds with an average split of 1:30.5. Story on the LSweb site.
• And Monmouth Comprehensive School (UK) set a new world record for 24 hours, pulling 346,697m with a mixed junior team of ten as part of a fund-raising day for the Sir Steve Redgrave Trust. It has been officially verified by C2, and see the MCSBC website for more. Both stories in the latest Concept 2 UK newsletter, which should be in the newsletter archive in a few weeks time for those who are not signed up for it.
• Several responses from readers following my inquiries about times at the Australian National Championships last week (see Sunday 19th March, last item). It appears that after unholy head-winds for the first few days ("the wind blew dogs off chains", reported one email), the wind died for the weekend and Sunday's conditions for the interstate finals were dam' near perfect. A steady tail-wind with enough strength to quicken times without creating big waves. (Did anyone measure the speed? FISA might be interested in how hard such a wind has to be). Enough of the interstate winners had top internationals in for the times to be entirely credible: the winning men's eight was stroked by Drew Ginn. That is reassuring at least to those of us reading about it in countries where our national championships do not tend to involve those trialling for the senior international squads or aren't held at the end of a training season. Other readers tell me Lake Barrington is pretty chilly and very deep. Perhaps the depth helps stop waves being whipped up by a certain speed of wind? Thanks all for your input.
• FISA articles: International rowing in Tunisia, and Top 10 rower Steve Williams is doing it again.

  Sunday 26th March 2006

• Head of the River results (UK) have been confirmed. Leander beat Fiamme Gialle by 3 seconds.

  Friday 24th March 2006

• UK: If you haven't been watching the Channel 4 celebrity car-crash The Games, you might find it worthwhile for the odd glimpse of Mr. Toby Garbett, who is the fitness trainers for all the poor slebs. He's also launching his own personal training website shortly.
• Tomorrow's Head of the River going off at 11:30am should have results by the time the crews are all drunk in TRC. Provisionals may go up earlier on the TV screens in Tideway bars, but remember that they do not necessarily include late finishers and anyone whose number was not initially spotted for some reason.

  Thursday 23rd March 2006

• Hammersmith Regatta and Fuller's Brewery (UK) are running a prize quiz to help publicise the event. Enter online now (see link for details) and winners will be drawn on the day of the regatta (22nd April). Hint: here is the Hammersmith Regatta website.
• Cygnet RC (UK), on whose site a race committee member has put the above quiz, are blessed with a lively blog of the doings in the club. With faith in the stars they have named their top eights Aries and Taurus (hope the good old boys of Oxford Brookes don't have anything to say about the latter). Comment of the month comes from 'Mystic Smeg' on 7th February, noting that certain members of the club "would surely be better named Pisces as they will spend most of the run-up to the race, erm, Pisced." Arf.
• A press release from Concept 2 about the BUR Freshers' Challenge (UK) - Nottingham University rowers 'chase the eight' on home ground.

  Wednesday 22nd March 2006

• Regional trials results from the West Midlands (UK, Excel format) are also online, on the Pullinger (RGS Worcester) club website.
• On FISA's site, Four months of rowing later.

  Tuesday 21st March 2006

• A desperate bit of news from New Zealand: 75-year-old Peter Thomas Munson of Aromoho Wanganui RC had some kind of seizure while single sculling and is still missing. .
• Via the observant Tideway Slug, the HORR stats charts for all you nerdy statsmeisters to file away (UK). Even the most accomplished mathematicians will probably want to read the explanations to see what it all means....
• PDF poster and information for the 93rd 'Head of the Mayors Eights' in Prague (Czech Republic, 3-4 June 2006). There's also a singles competition, the 'Rossler-Orovsky Race', now in its 107th time of running. 2000m all races, I believe, closing date 22nd May.
• Results of the North-west Junior time trial (UK) are now online.
• A short while ago the Port of London Authority (POLA, UK) released a very detailed chart of the Tideway with navigation directions shown by coloured arrows. The chart, which is designed to be printed out large (A2/A1) and used as a poster by clubs, has had some important corrections made. The new version is downloadable from here - this is a temporary copy I'm keeping online until the POLA website can be updated some time this week. It's huge: over a megabyte - and can take a while to zoom in and out due to the level of detail.
• Details of the Amber Oars in Trakai, Lithuania this year (from the Dansk Forening for Rosport website). The Lithuanian Rowing Federation website also contains details of the World University Rowing Championships 2006, which are being held in August in the same location. WURCs website in English, the LIF website in Lithanian, but with plans to translate it into English at some point.

  Monday 20th March 2006

• The Tideway Guide for non-Tideway crews on the Thames Regional Rowing Council site (UK) is still applicable for crews visiting for the men's Head and vets' Head this weekend.
• There is a workshop on Explosive lifting for sports performance on in Twickenham (London, UK) on Wednesday 22nd March.
• Robert Gordon University's crew made history on Saturday by winning their first Aberdeen Universities Boat Race in the 11 years of the race (Scotland, UK). The race was postponed from earlier in the month due to ice on the river Dee. Crews listed on this preview page from Aberdeen Univ.
• Ed Slater's 2006 Trinity College Hartford (USA) banquet presentation to celebrate his clubs' achievements is as good as the last. Be very patient while it loads (not advisable if you don't have broadband/ethernet).
• On FISA's website, Ginn reappears and Le Compte remembered at Australia's national championships, and Sartori, the Italian rower. Plus the athlete questionnaire from Gifu - the full results including the issues that the changing rooms and rest areas weren't up to scratch, and launch-wash did cause a problem. While few complained about unfairness on the course, the point was made that the worlds should be "kept off rivers". Eton's World Cup came in for some blistering comments about unfairness on the final day (what's the better the organisers are already praying for good weather in August?) and there was a general feeling that if done right, most athletes would not mind cameras attached to boats. Good stuff - they should try and do this every year.
• Announced by BYM News, that while most recreational boats built in Australia will now have to carry Australian Builders Plates including details of buoyancy, amongst those excluded are rowing shells.
• Coach on the move: Man with the golden oars making for Canadian shores - Bent Jensen has landed one of the Canadian coaching jobs (Denmark.dk). Not sure how I missed the original Rowing Canada Aviron press release quite a while ago.

  Sunday 19th March 2006

• Belated catching-up on a few things which have slipped while I've been doing other jobs. Results of the Heineken Roeivierkamp (Netherlands) last weekend in Amsterdam. Skadi won the men's elite, with Rowing Canada's men just behind. And in the women's elite division Skoll/Okeanos beat Canada/Nereus.
• The adjournment debate on rowing boat buoyancy and safety which took place in the House of Commons (UK) on Wednesday is still available as a webcast via the HoC website (needs MIME plug-in). To get the broadcast, click on Archive, then search from and to Wednesday 15th March, in Westminster Hall, with the term 'rowing'. It's the third item in the cast. The full transcript of the debate is in Hansard online and the Blockleys' thoughts on the matter on their website.
• An RIP for Pat Sherwin (UK).
• The results of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race have been announced by the organisers. After calculating water penalties, the overall and pairs winners are Clint Evans and Chris Andrews. As their press officer points out, this makes Team C2 the first official British winners of the Trans-Atlantic Rowing Race, since all three of the previous races have been won by New Zealanders.
• Results of the Yorkshire Head (UK, PDF format) from last weekend.
• A reader comments that "the winning times over 2,000m at the recent Australian National Championships may make some clubs, university and school boat clubs envious": (times all eights events) Men's Interstate (winners Victoria) 5:26, Youth Interstate (NSW) 5:37, U23s (Western Aus) 5:39, Schoolboys (King's Sch Sydney) 5:40, U19s (Scotch College Victoria) 5:57, U17s (Canberra GS) 6:03, Women's Interstate (Victoria) 6:03, Women's Youth Interstate (Victoria) 6:24, Women's Open (Mercantile/composite) 6:08, Schoolgirls (Methodist Ladies' College) 6:34, Women's U19s (Western Aus) 6:39. Short course? Warm water? Hundreds of potential world champions? Anyone able to shed light? Full results on the official website.

  Friday 17th March 2006

• A PDF poster for the 2006 'Speed 8+', a night-time sprint eights competition being held in Mahignane (France) on 29th September to 1st October this year. What looks like huge money prizes on offer for winners.... Contact Pierre Bruno, 06.11.21.86.04, France, for more information.
• Course map and crew instructions for the Kingston Head (UK) are online, with the start order also just posted.
• The remarkable Rocat is now entering production, after several years developing the concept. Apparently quite a lot of interest already. The Rocat galleries have been considerably updated since I last looked, with interesting downloadable movie clips.
• Weybridge (UK) still have some places available on their next UKCC Level 2 Coaching COurse in May. Details on the club's site.
• North-East England crews may be interested in the Tideway Navigation Education Day (Word application form, UK) in their region.
• And also in the NRC Safety Advisors Report published this month (UK).
• Rowing Queensland Inc (Australia) have revamped their website.

  Thursday 16th March 2006

• Details of the 2006 Coastal Challenge (PDF poster with links) (UK, this summer).
• The Boat Race website has recently been expanded to include a discussion forum for the first time. It can be reached directly via forum.theboatrace.org or from the main website as linked above.
• The Tayforth race site (see yesterday, UK) also has an online poll to back your favourites. Probably requires some in-depth knowledge....

  Wednesday 15th March 2006

• The annual Tayforth derby race between the universities of Stirling and Dundee (Scotland, UK) is being contested this Saturday, March 18th at 2pm. Details and crew lists on the link.
• The draw for the Vets' Head (UK) is out. See same link for other race information, and crews (including foreign crews) are reminded they must display the three-letter, three-digit ID code - contact the ARA if your club doesn't yet have a code. Emails regarding the race to vets.head@vrc.org.uk.
• Some reminders of masters' links this summer - the FISA Masters is in Princeton (USA) on 7th-10th September, the Euro Masters is in Munich on 2nd-4th June, and the Internationaux de France (link playing up) is in Vichy on 22nd-24th September. Thanks KP for the info.
• I seem to have omitted a link to Grosvenor Rowing Club, Chester (UK) until now.
• Wilmington have changed their website to http://www.wilmingtonrowing.org/ (Delaware, USA).

  Tuesday 14th March 2006

• No sign of a formal result yet in the Atlantic Rowing Race, but organisers Woodvale Events have announced they are holding the next race in 2007 and are inviting solo, pairs and fours entries. Get in touch with them via the website if you want more information. (And start chatting up this year's successful ocean rowers, who may want to sell/loan their boats).
• Tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) the annual grudge match between the freshers of UCL and KCL will take place on the Tideway. Women 2:45pm, men 3:15pm. Visitors apparently welcome. No idea which end but it's a 2km race.

  Monday 13th March 2006

• Results of the Women's Head (UK) by time, alphabetically and by division. The handicap-adjusted veteran times are available as well. Overall winner was the top squad composite.
• On Wednesday 15th March there will be a debate in the House of Commons (UK) on the subject of Rowing Safety. It's an Adjournment Debate, in Westminster Hall, initiated by David Heyes MP, and focusing on the deaths of Leo Blockley and Sikander Farooq. Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Rowing Group have been alerted. The debate will be televised.
• Calling rowers in the Oxford (UK) area: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are in Oxford filming a documentary about prolonging human life, this week, March 13th to 17th. They want to film a 'staged' race between two crews, one aged in their 50s, and one 'college aged', in which the veterans sneak a win! The venue is unclear, but may be Abingdon, Marlow or Wallingford. The time required would be about 2 hours. The crew would need to wear matching kit. If you might be able to help, please reply ASAP direct to the TV researcher christina.heidorn@utoronto.ca.
• I didn't see it myself, but apparently Sir Steve Redgrave won the Pro-Celeb motor race at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Competitive old bugger.
• Results of the Yorkshire Head (UK) online.
• Details of the Thames Upriver Junior Inter-Regional trials are on the Henley RC website.
• The Powerpoint file of the presentation I did at TRC on Friday (UK) is now downloadable from the Rowing Service. Warning - big file.
• The Henley Boat Races website (UK) is updated with all this year's information including crew lists.

  Friday 10th March 2006

• Provisional Schools' Head results (Tideway, UK) are now available. Shrewsbury won in a time apparently a second outside the record, 26 seconds ahead of Abingdon, with Headington retaining the women's title. Shrewsbury are pictured here having already overtaken 2005 winners Eton before Hammersmith Bridge (v large file). Thanks JM.
• The Scullery Head results (Henley, UK) are also available - the sculling version of the Schools' Head. Maidenhead RC won both the women's and men's J18 quads (fastest boats), by four and seven seconds respectively.
• Ah - bless. The boys done good. Pete Reed and the Army M4- were given military sports awards recently (UK).

  Thursday 9th March 2006

• A Community Sports Coach (Rowing) position in Plymstock (UK). Closing date is 17th March. And more in London - closing date 10th April.
• Plus a vacancy for a Coaching & Devt Officer in South/Southeast England (UK).
• Reminder of a notice from UL (UK): "If you have left your single scull or any other boat at ULBC in the outside racking can you please contact Jill Cobbett, boathouse manager asap as unclaimed boats are being scrapped. All unclaimed boats will be taken away on Friday 10th March. Likewise regarding bikes. Contact ulboathousemanager@yahoo.co.uk or call 07968 399273."
• Roz Savage has finished rowing the Atlantic - a brief report from BYM News (UK).

  Wednesday 8th March 2006

• Stop press: - FISA this morning announced the decision on Bulgarian rower Milka Manchorova (Tankeva). She has been suspended from competition for two years (until 8th June 2007) after testing positive for an S2 list substance during an unannounced test in Plovdiv on 3rd May 2005, which was confirmed on 9th June 2005. Manchorova (Tankeva) was unable to demonstrate that she had no significant fault or negligence to reduce her suspension and so it goes ahead. She is not listed in the FISA athlete database but was presumably trialling for the Bulgarian national squad and therefore on the drug-test list.
• The second Scullery Head press release (PDF format, UK). The start list is on the Scullery website, where results should go at some point. Note - heading up Division 3 in the start order is MSRA, presumably not a particularly nasty form of dyslexic antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, but Molesey Schools RA.
• Godfrey Rowsports have revamped their website, with their new ranges including limited edition garments. There's a particularly neat trick if you're looking at the new Performance range - you can spin the photographs round and see the kit in 3D round 360 degrees. Cunning as a fox.
• A profile for adaptive rower Tony Theriault (Canada).
• Roz Savage has been on her sea anchor this week, so unable to make much progress, but should be finishing the Atlantic Rowing Race pretty soon. At that point the organisers are expected to announce the various penalties for water ballast broaching, and the final ranking order in each category.
• London RC have a PDF of some boats for sale (UK).

  Tuesday 7th March 2006

• Gordon Glyn-Jones is after a specific kind of picture. He says: "I'm editor of a magazine called In London, which goes out to 120,000 Australian, New Zealand and South African professionals living in London. I'm seeking an image to illustrate an article I'm doing on how to start rowing. I do not have any budget for images, but am willing to credit the photographer and send them copies of the mag. I'm looking for an abstracted or generic image, evocative of the shapes, beauty and grace of rowing. Can anyone help? Please email me at editor@inlondon.com."
• The draw for the Hammersmith Head (UK) is out.
• FISA has released the names of the Thomas Keller Medal finalists - Agostino Abbagnale (ITA), James Cracknell (GBR), Juri Jaanson (EST), Elisabeta Lipa (ROM) and Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski (GER). An interesting crop!
• FISA has also announced the event juries for this year. And Linz in Austria as the venue for the first World Cup of 2007.
• Details of this year's Boat Race Ball (Hurlingham Club, UK, Sunday April 2nd) are on the OUBC website. A PDF of the ticket application form can be downloaded and a 360-degree tour of the Hurlingham Suite is available on the ehouse website.

  Monday 6th March 2006

• Now that's showing off - the Heineken Roeivierkamp draw was done live this year from the Nereus club boardroom (Holland). The actual draw is in PDF format while NLRoei has comment and photos.
• Results from Reading University Head (UK) by time and by category. Winners were Oxford Brookes (men, by 20.6 seconds) and Leander (women's, by 1.7 seconds).
• Vesta RC (UK) would like to remind veterans that entries to the Veteran Eights' Head close this Saturday, 11th March. Since it's Women's Eights Head day Vesta will gladly accept hand-delivered entries at the club. (Plus they have a hospitable bar so that thirsty entry-deliverers can stop for a quick pint).
• For anyone wanting broader-reaching tide-tables outside just the Tideway, the Port of London website has times and tides on a range of locations.
• More usefully, the EasyTide website does free predictions for 6 days for UK and worldwide tidal locations, and shows them in a particularly graphic and useful format. Based on what I saw yesterday, high tides at Hammersmith of over 5.5m are roughly lapping the top of the sloping Hard at Putney. Remember landwater may have an extra effect, at times of heavy rain.
• A link I'd previously missed - Barrie Rowing Club in Ontario, Canada.

  Friday 3rd March 2006

• Late UK newsflash - Cracknell's Olympic medals stolen (BBC News, UK). Poor thing. I hope they weren't at home when the burglar broke in, and that someone manages to help get everything back.
• Davies Rowtech (UK) have just launched a new product, a wind speed meter (aka an anemometer). The delux model also measures temperature including wind-chill. Handy stuff.
• Results and information for Cambridge's Lent Bumps (UK) are all online.
• And for Torpids likewise including live bumps updates (Oxford, UK).
• For those engaging in Oxford bumps this week, Edd Edmondson's glossary may be useful. It could also ring a few nostalgic bells with those who used to chase each other up the Isis in boats at this time of the year, but now are much too sensible to do so.
• The 2006 Head of the River start order (Men's Head, UK) is published. Interestingly, the note of which trophies clubs are eligible for has Brookes (but not Reading) eligible for the Page trophy despite being a university, which is specifically excluded from the awards rules. A mistake, or have things changed again? The former I suspect, since St. Paul's and other schools are not listed as being eligible for the Vernon despite being Tideway clubs.
• Thames Regional Rowing Council chairman Chris George is doing a sponsored million-metre erg for the charity Water Aid (UK).

  Thursday 2nd March 2006

• Oarsport (UK) have the new Nielsen-Kellerman Cadence T1 wrist-rate watch in stock and available to be ordered immediately.
• The Schools' Head website (UK, Tideway sweep race only) has been updated with the entry list. Schools are asked to check it is correct.
• Chester-le-Street Regatta is being held again for the first time since 1992 (UK). Details on the NERN website - note OARA or postal entries only.
• BUSA Head (UK) finally has the points results (Word format) online, but not the full results yet.
• A website for Piermont Rowing Club (USA), in New York State on the west bank of the Hudson River. One of the most useful links in the website is to real-time river water temperatures, which can be redone for any state in the USA. Does any other country do this on such a scale? I know some coastal areas can get real-time sea temperatures from their local observation stations' websites, but it's rarer on rivers.
• The club RIC Amsterdam tells me it a new web address at www.ricamsterdam.nl (Holland).
• Bournemouth University BC also has a new website, at www.bubc.co.uk (UK).

  Wednesday 1st March 2006

• UK late newsflash from Tuesday night: - I hear that poor Jurgen Grobler has had an accident in Spain while on the GB men's training camp, and was flown home last night with a suspected leg/ankle break or sprain. He's due to have an operation - let's hope it goes/has gone well.
• The Thames Regional Rowing Council (UK) would like representatives from all clubs in the region who cater for juniors to fill in a survey on junior rowing. Thanks.
• A note on the Thames Upriver Junior Inter-Regional trials (UK) on the TRRC website.
• Two announcements from the National Schools Regatta (UK - it's the day for under-18s, clearly). First, a letter from Chairman Peter Politzer, outlining the new head-race style qualification for all races with more than 12 entries. Secondly, a note included in the letter that the sculling boat prizes have been withdrawn not by the Regatta, which never donated them, but by the Rowing Foundation which no longer has funds. And the letter also asks for views on the NWSC and its possible drop in funding/closure.
• Results of the Hammersmith Women's & Juniors Head (UK).
• Southampton University Boat Club (UK) have just redone their website, to be found at www.subc.co.uk.
• FISA have announced the Eurosport broadcast times for this summer. So far: Saturday 27th May 10:00-11:45 and 13:00-14:45 live Munich World Cup; Saturday 17th June 10:15-12:45 live Poznan World Cup; Sunday 9th July 11:00-12:00 and 13:30-16:00 live Lucerne World Cup (on Eurosport 2); Monday 10th July 13:30-15:00 Lucerne highlights; and World Championships at Eton Thursday 24th August 12:00-15:30, Friday 25th August 12:00-14:00, Saturday 26th August 12:00-15:00, Sunday 27th August 12:45-16:30 all live. All Eurosport main channel unless otherwise stated, and all Central European Time (will be GMT+2 in the summer).
• From Ken Hastie, who runs the NERN website, a video of some normal waterlife going on right at the foot of the Progress Boards during Henley Royal Regatta. Aaaaahhhhh....
• From the Empire State Rowing Association, historic images of rowing on the Harlem River 100 years ago (USA). Thanks JS.
• The latest press release on the CamToo project (UK).