Friday 30th September 2005
- Reflective gear - useless? - a Rowing Service reader's comment on the visibility problem.
- The memorial service for Kiran van Rijn (Canada) will take place at 4pm on Wednesday October 5th, at St. George's senior school, 4175 West 29th Avenue, Vancouver. A full obituary in the Canadian press (Globe and Mail).
- Godfrey Sports (UK) have decided to make Fridays a regular day when they add new items to their website, so that customers know when to check for updates. This week there are new colour combinations and more on the reflective kit page.
- Sarah Holly is raising money for a cross-Costa Rica trek (Feb 2006, by bike, kayak, raft and foot) to support the Princes' Trust (UK). In aid of this she's holding a speed-dating evening (Powerpoint format for the download) in London on 10th November. See link for details.
Thursday 29th September 2005
- The Berwick start order (UK, Excel format) has been slightly revised.
- From Pro-Athlete (UK), features and photos on the World Championships, and Richard Wearne's views on the racing. Registration required to read feature content but they have a well-designed privacy/cookies policy so you may find it worthwhile.
- Visibility part 2 - Karon Phillips of New Wave UK says they're now stocking neon yellow Coolmax and Gamex jackets for rowing, running and cycling. Not listed on the UK website yet but you can obtain them by emailing her. She goes on to say - "A number of crews bought them in Strathclyde - and could be seen all the way up at the start - and beyond, even on Friday night when racing went on so late!"
- Also in the Guardian an obituary of John Levy by Chris Dodd (UK). For those interested, Levy's memorial service will take place at St. Mary's Church, Putney at 2:30pm on 14th October, and afterwards at Thames Rowing Club.
Wednesday 28th September 2005
- Alternative answers to the "be seen in the dark" problem - Hi-Glow strips (NZ), TuffRhino's OccuLux shirts (USA), ArcNav shell lights (USA) and the Mad Marsupial's RowingBoatLights (Australia). Thanks to rec.sport.rowing.
- Start order for the Berwick Scullers Head (UK, 1st Oct) is up.
- Entries are now being taken for the Scullers' Head (Vesta, UK). OARA preferred, but printable ARA forms are also accepted. The race is on 26th Nov, entries close 5th Nov.
Tuesday 27th September 2005
- Lots of information on the 12.7km E.ON Hanse Cup event in Germany (website in German and English). It starts on Friday 30th September on the Kiel Canal, and this year's international competitors are Germany, the USA, Netherlands, Great Britain and Cambridge. Not necessarily the full crews from each, though.
- The closing date for the River Tees Watersports Centre (UK) community sports coach (rowing) has been extended to Friday 30th September. More details on the link.
- Details of the World Rowing Forum (an event held every two years) including a better PDF registration form to replace the previous less user-friendly one. Biographies of the speakers are now going up.
- Godfrey Sports (UK) are now selling reflective kit. Funky and useful.
- See the Tideway Slug (UK) for important information about the annual Richmond draw-off for Tideway crews.
- From the Times yesterday (UK) - Oxford beat Cambridge and crocs on Zambezi. Here's one of the pictures which was originally to have accompanied the story.
- Last week the Dover Rowing Club (UK) broke the cross-Channel rowing record in fours and quads. There's a press release and photos in this large Word document (1.1MB).
- Curlew (UK) are starting their new season.
Monday 26th September 2005
- Rowing Canada sent round a message which is not yet on its main website, about Kiran van Rijn. I've put it up here for now. The Vancouver Sun (Canada) published his obituary yesterday.
- A message from CD Riches about the Schools' Head 2006 (UK).
- From Rowing Canada, the Canadian results from the Bayada Regatta (the US Adaptive National Championships). No specific website for the regatta but the Bayada Nurses website has a PDF preview of the regatta on it, and the hosts, the Philadelphia Rowing Program for the Disabled (PRPD, USA) have general info including the previous three years' results.
- To celebrate their U23 M2- win, Dutch national squaddies Mitchel Steenman and Olaf van Andel shared a 10-metre Empacher Torte with their friends and relations. Steenman and van Andel were also stern pair (aged 20) of the Dutch M8+ which came 8th overall at the senior Worlds.
- Details of the Kingston Small Boats Head (UK, November 13th) are online.
- Details of the ARA's rowing club conferences (UK) this autumn.
- It's been halfway round the rowing net already: the Saline crew's story of a splash (USA). Read all the way down - kudos to all the girls.
- From FISA, the horse's mouth story on the Chinese/Gifu.
- Photos from Durham Primary Regatta (UK) online.
Friday 23rd September 2005
- Rowing tragedy in Canada: "Kiran van Rijn, a sculler from Vancouver, BC, was training on Burnaby Lake, 22 September, 2005 when he fell out of his boat. It is reported that when rescued by his coach, he said that he had become dizzy, which caused him to tip out. The cause of death has not yet been reported." (From a rec.sport.rowing posting). It appears Kiran (a national champion) collapsed while being rescued and stopped breathing before the paramedics arrived.
- There's nothing in the online press about it, but these links are appropriate - Setting the lake on fire (a profile of him while doing a doctorate two years ago), In Memoriam on the Alberta Rowing Club website. Kiran raced for Canada in the M2x during the 2001 Princeton World Cup, coming fourth, and was in the Canadian sweep squad which won gold and two silvers at the 2002 Commonwealth Regatta. This year he was close to a place on the national senior team, coming third in the men's sculling trials in June.
- This weekend Kansas Rowing (USA) is holding its first alumni reunion - 9am Saturday at Burcham Park. Email kucrewalumni@yahoo.com for more details.
- Start order for the Rowers' Revenge Triathlon is on the newly revitalised official website (UK).
- UK notice: "Irish made [Celtic oars] Traditional rowing wooden sweep oar, painted light blue spoon, found in the Thames at Putney the day after the Great
river race. Now in Westminster School Boat House. david.riches@westminster.org.uk."
- JET Photographic has Great River Race and Boston Marathon pics online (UK).
- From the ARA Executive Report to the ARA Council meeting of 1st October: "A contract has been agreed with Yachting Press who will start production of the new look magazine in January 2006, which will be known as Rowing & Regatta."
Thursday 22nd September 2005
- News from the Putney Winkle (UK) - "Battersea Bridge was hit by a large heavy sea-going ship on Tuesday evening. The damage to it is apparently worse than originally thought, with several cast-iron segments cracked and needing to be replaced. London news sources are saying that the bridge will be closed to road traffic and at least one arch closed to river traffic for some time. Rowers beware - even if you avoid the bridge, this area will be full of work barges and other maintenance vessels.
- A (UK) reminder that Beauty and the Boats, an exhibition of art and artistry in early British rowing at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley, closes on October 2. Chris Dodd, the museum's rowing historian, says 'This selection of material from the Thomas E Weil collection is the most important show of rowing art since Thomas Eakins's rowing paintings were shown in Washington ten years ago. It's a must for anyone interested in rowing and the arts. Weil has spent 30 years collecting images, medals, trophies and ephemera of rowing, and the selection in Beauty and the Boats depicts the seminal years of our sport in its mother country'.
- £2m Lotto boost for Olympics 2012 (BBC News, UK), with a picture of Bert Bushnell and Sir Matthew Pinsent.
- London (UK) notice - "Found floating on the Tideway last Sunday (18/9) oneY?new Concept C2 scull (bow side). To claim, please contactY?Martin Carr - Quintin Boat ClubY?on 07931 540235 or martin123@carr12331.freeserve.co.uk."
- The new Queen Elizabeth High School RC (UK) website has a neat report from the Boston Marathon which anyone who has been away to a long-distance British race will feel some sympathy with.
Wednesday 21st September 2005
- Results of last weekend's Italian Championships on Canottaggio Vero (Italy), in which most of their national team duly won gold.
- Results of the Boston Rowing Marathon (UK) are online by event and by time. The website promises that the records page will be updated later this week.
- The Ocean Rowing Society says there have never been five solo rowers on the world's oceans outside a race before, as they have now. Alex Bellini left Genoa (Italy) two days ago heading out through the Straits of Gibraltar and across the Atlantic to Brazil. Pavel Rezvoy is picking up where his son's attempt to row the Indian Ocean left off, and is eight days out of the Cocos Islands (Australia) heading for Madagascar/the Seychelles. Leven Sinclair Brown is now 26 days into his attempt to row his ancestor Columbus' route from Spain to Trinidad while managing a stock portfolio, after a repairs-required restart. And Emmanuel Coindre is now nearly ninety days and more than halfway from Choshi (Japan) across the north-eastern Pacific to San Francisco. Completing the five ORS is tracking is Oliver Hicks, close to completing his W-E Atlantic row, and nearing Cornwall/NW France. This does not include Dom Mee, who left Canada recently to row W-E to Devon (UK).
- The book Oar-Some has now been published, detailing the first four-man ocean row (UK).
- The UK Sculling League turns out to be the brainchild of a Tideway rower who is tells me he is not yet sure about whether it's a good idea or not. He says "of course the fact that we are thus far anonymous is a distinct short coming - that will be addressed asap". Perhaps the thoughts of UK rowers might be of interest to him, via the email contact on the site.
Tuesday 20th September 2005
- It looks as if Ghana's getting a Rowing Association (GhanaWeb), following the creation of FASA (the Africa Rowing Federation).
- Items from the recent FISA circular not previously as widely publicised: a) the 2005 Congress authorised FISA to confirm Strathclyde as the venue for the 2007 Under-23 World Champs on receipt of the financial guarantees from local government. b) A W8+ was added to the Under-23 programme. c) Following the 2-boat entry this year, authority for a vote on the lightweight men's eight issue was transferred to the 2006 Congress (which will be held at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton next summer). d) A test event for ergometer teams (pairs and fours on slide-linked C2's) will be held at the Euro Open erg champs on Sunday December 4th 2005, to launch a World Rowing Challenge on ergs. There's more information at the event website. e) Gifu (worlds 2005) apparently had more than 37,000 spectators attending the second finals day. f) The 2008 World Masters Regatta will be held in Trakai, Lithuania. g) New members are being sought for the FISA Umpiring, Materials and Athletes' Commissions, following resignations. NFs should provide application letters and CVs for candidates by 31st October, and must be able to guarantee financial support for the Commission member's work and travel. h) Bids are opened for the 2009 U23s and Masters, and 2010 Worlds and Juniors regattas, and must be declared at FISA HQ by 15th October.
Monday 19th September 2005
- Nick Ablitt tells me that he's extended the expiration date for the Ratecoach software he wrote for mobile phones a few years ago, so that it is still useable. The Java midlet is two files, Ratecoach.jad and Ratecoach.jar, both of which are needed. Save both to your phone, then run the jad file, which will install the jar file.
- Results for the Great River Race (UK) are out. The winners, Masters International DBC, set a new record of 2 hours 6 minutes 23 seconds (a couple of minutes down on the old mark).
- Yare Boat Club (UK) is holding its first ARA open head race, the Yare Cup (23rd October). 3700m, two divisions, info on the boat club link above.
- A weekend of racing on the Clyde (Glasgow, Scotland) - Saturday 8th October the St. Andrew BC head race and Sunday 9th October the Clydesdale 4's and 8's. Info on the SARA website.
- From mid-October, Nick Suess is merging his two businesses, Scull Success and Elite Boatworks Aus. They will trade together as Elite Boatworks Australia and the SS name will be dropped.
- Julian Clary (ex-Kingston RC - UK - cox) is on Desert Island Discs (created and originally presented by KRC member Roy Plumley) next Sunday (25th September, 11:15am BST) and repeated the following Friday (30th September, 09:00 BST) on Radio 4. D.I.D. programmes are not archived online for copyright reasons so anyone who wants to hear will have to listen live.
- The poster for Northwich Autumn Head (UK) is online.
- From FISA, Junior coaches conference set for October, Head coach wanted for Tasmania Rowing, and Masters Worlds Scottish style.
- Applications now open for the Central England Rowing Conference 2005 (UK).
Friday 16th September 2005
- A busy and regularly updated website for The Auckland Rowing Club (New Zealand).
- The 2006 FISA World Masters Regatta will be held at Mercer Lake, Princeton, New Jersey (USA), on September 7th-10th next year. The website for it will be www.fisamasters2006.com.
- Entry deadline for the Cambridge Small Boats Head (October 1st, UK) is Monday 26th September, 9am. (Lucky them to get their post delivered so early by Royal Mail standards!)s
- Information on the Dee Autumn Head (29th October, UK) has been updated. Note the date, which was apparently changed as a late decision at the NW Rowing Council.....
- ....And for anyone confused by the north-west England event dates check this page on the NWRC website which should be fully up to date and has the NW heads fortnights apart, as was decided. To fit this Northwich Spring Head is on 1st April and Warrington Head of the Mersey on 15th April.
Thursday 15th September 2005
- UK notice posted on behalf of a third party: - "A qualified, practicing lawyer, who has specialist knowlege of Marine Law and in particular the Col Regs and their interpretation and force in law, is sought by an unincorporated client body for advice on pro bono terms (with indemity provided by the client so no call back if the advice proves wrong). The ideal person will be a yachtie/motorboat person who is also a rower and is familiar with the practice as well as the legal interpretation of the Col Regs. Email via RQ please in confidence."
- Due to lack of water Monmouth Autumn Head (UK) has been postponed to Sunday 6th November with entries closing at noon the Sunday before. Details on the link.
- The Victory Day Regatta in Valletta (Malta, 8th September) was attended by BigBlade Photography (UK) - looks like a fun day out. Historical info on the first of the two links. Marsa Regatta Club were the overall winners of the aggregate shields for both Open and Reserves categories.
- Results of the Cambridge Autumn Regatta (UK) now up.
- Entries for the Pairs Head (15th October, UK) close on 3rd October, and the updated website (link above) includes an Excel entry sheet to use. If you have a double or pair you'd be able to loan/hire out please contact Ali Elliott who is liaising with competing clubs seeking boats.
- Details of Marlow Long Distance Sculls (UK) are now online. There's a downloadable notice for clubs (Word format).
- Agecroft RC has rejigged its website. Can also be found at www.agecroftrc.org.uk, to which the .co.uk address redirects.
Wednesday 14th September 2005
- News from Germany that a touring rowing boat swamped under large wash and one member of the crew did not survive. I haven't yet managed to ferret out a proper news report in English or German so see the thread on rec.sport.rowing for the main details. Henning Lippke's translation of various news pieces is particularly informative.
- Worcester RC's Autumn Head is on October 9th (UK) and now open for OARA entries. Details on the events page of the website.
- There is a chance that the new Hammersmith redevelopment (London, UK) will include new rowing facilities, though plans are not yet finalised. A public consultation is being held from 23rd-25th September - details on the website with a little more information on the TRRC website (MS Word format).
- News from a UK div rep that at the West Midlands Rowing Council it was stated the 2006 Schools' Head will be split into two (8th/9th March) with the sculling events at Henley over 3.5km and the rowing events on the Tideway as usual.
- New from Godfrey (UK) - women's strappy all-in-one which I gather is "made from moisture-wicking supplex lycra and includes Inner Support". Very enticing.
Tuesday 13th September 2005
- The River Tees Watersports Centre (UK) is re-advertising its Community Sports Coach position. The advert is available from the website (MS Word format) and anyone interested can contact manager John Whyte (see contacts page) and request an emailed application pack.
- The Asian Rowing Championships will take place in Hyderabad from October 18th to 23rd.
- A website for Virginia Boat Club, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
- It's very encouraging to see that the Queensland schools championship regatta in Australia included adaptive children's events.
- World Rowing Championships: Aftermath from FISA.
Monday 12th September 2005
- TVNZ in New Zealand has coverage of the Great Race - see "Rowing on a high" under the Video submenu, halfway down. If that doesn't work try this link instead. Interestingly, the official website doesn't yet have the results up, despite it being Monday night in NZ as I write this (pull your finger out, Rob!).
- UK plea: - "Could the person who borrowed a black Resolute single from Dorney Lake last weekend please return it, as it is regularly used.Y? If anybody sees a black Resolute single around, please could they contact Terry Hunter at the lake on 01753-832756, who will be able to eliminate it from the list."
- More nuts stuff - the Making Waves duo are 'training' for the Atlantic row by doing the Great River Race, then the Boston Marathon, then just for fun rowing the length of the Thames, this coming weekend (UK). The first two links are the right ones for the two big events.
- A cracking picture of the Atlantic Race boats from Explorers' Web.
- Northwich RC (UK) has shifted to http://www.northwichrowing.co.uk/ and their Autumn Head is now on Sat. 15th October with information on the website.
Saturday 10th September 2005
- Friday results (PDF format) now available for the FISA World Masters' Regatta website (Scotland). More going up at intervals during the weekend.
Friday 9th September 2005
- Lots of new UK notices up, including some which may be matches for one another. Please note that it is your responsibility to read the anti-spam/anti-scam page and take appropriate steps to disguise your email address when posting notices. Make no assumptions about people answering your ads until you have checked out who they are.
- Sad UK news about Jonny Fraser, former Merchant Taylor's School and recently St. Peter's College Oxford student, drowned in India while rescuing a friend in trouble. He rowed in the SPC men's 2nd eight who went up one bump and one overbump this summer.
- A brief feature on the Dubai Rowing and Sculling Club (Dubai).
- And one on the Windsor Three's annual Thames row in memory of their schoolfriend and crewmate (UK).
- From rec.sport.rowing originally, artist Sam Halperin made a short (MPG) rowing animation for film competitions.
- James Cracknell and Peter Craske have raised an impressive 2.2% of their £50,000 target for Access Sport so far. Well done chaps. A good cause, though, with a decent range of sports covered so far and 20 more clubs planned to be added in the new year.
- University College Worcester (UK) has now become the University of Worcester and has finished its rowing club website - at www.freewebs.com/ucwrowing/ currently. I like the sound of their "Destruction Derby" for singles and doubles in December.
- Ted Hale Rowing (Australia) has new products and information on the bow-mounted wing rigging system in their September bulletin (sign up on the website).
Thursday 8th September 2005
- For a little bit more Kiwi action, visit the TVNZ website and click on "NZ rowers on song" in the video section, top right.
- The organiser of the Rowers' Revenge Triathlon (UK) has been hijacked by his ISP not dealing properly with the domain name renewal. As a result the best way to access the RRT website is via the Marlow Rowing Club site (events menu). Specific queries can be sent to rowersrevenge (at) marlowoldmen.co.uk until normal service resumes.
- A Word press release from the camToo project (UK).
- Mortlake Anglian & Alpha (UK) have appointed Merv Lee and Piers Robinson as coaching replacements for Richard Tinkler.
Wednesday 7th September 2005
- A link to Lakeside Rowing Club, Mexico, founded by John "Lakeside" Phillips and the Reverend Thomas Sherlock after the emigration of English engineers to Mexico to exploit the silver mines there.
- The FISA World Masters Regatta 2005 starts in Strathclyde on Thursday (Scotland). Results should be going on the website regularly, and if not, I may be able to get them. The PDF draw has been available for some time.
- The Swiss Rowing Federation is looking for a new National Junior Head Coach. Descriptions in German and English in PDF format.
- A website for the FISA Coastal Regatta in Noli on 2nd October - in Italian, French and English.
- Vesta Rowing Club (UK) have devised the inspirational Vesta International Coxswains' Challenge (24th September, Putney). As well as the less obvious coxing skills listed on the poster ('blade run, donut run') it includes Tideway steering, and rigging tests.
Budding/novice coxes don't take it too seriously though: there are a lot of things rowers pretend or wish they could get us to do (cooking/cleaning/clearing up after them, to quote only some of the most savoury.) Being a good cox is not really about gophering obsequiously: it boils down to 'can you help them win races?' and little else, though of course there are many skills involved in that alone. Why not turn it round and make them audition for us? I've often thought about devising a competition to see which club most deserves to have good coxes. Challenges could include how many times the rowers and coaches can actually give constructive feedback during a month (no point doing it during a week or an outing, as zero is not a statistically useful number in this context); a cox-lifting competition to stop your poor already-cold steersman's feet getting wet stumbling in and out of tidal rivers on wintry mornings; and a memory test to see how long it takes for the coach to forget the cox's name. Bonus points for clubs which think of getting proper cox-sized kit, actually teach the skills they want them to have, and occasionally say thank you for making someone turn out in vicious winter to freeze their a**e off for two hours coxing a grumpy crew without getting any exercise themselves - and then being binned before the head because the captain's significant other wants to steer in the race. By the way nearly all the UK/US veteran crews I have ever coxed are laudable exceptions to all these grumbles. (If they aren't, I haven't been back.) - So, if any young learning coxes want to be cheered up and bring on their careers, go and steer a good masters' boat, they'll make it well worth your while and you'll feel a valuable member of the crew. RQ
- BBG Bootsbau (originally from Germany) now has a UK website and representative (John Maxwell) to sell the boats in the UK. They're visiting the FISA Masters this weekend to exhibit their shells.
- The draw for Cambridge Autumn Regatta (UK) is up on the Nines website.
- Stourport BC (UK) is holding a new event, the Stourport Veteran & Junior Head, on Saturday 24th September. Details on the SBC website.
- Wallingford Long Distance Sculls (8th October, UK) is now accepting entries and this year is adding a mixed 2x event (please advise status with your entry).
Monday 5th September 2005
- FISA Congress 2005: The main decisions were - a) Poznan (POL) will get the 2009 Worlds, b) Brandenburg (GER) will get the 2008 Under-23s, c) Brive-la-Gaillarde (FRA) will get the 2009 juniors, d) Denis Oswald was unanimously re-elected as FISA President for another four years with Anita DeFrantz remaining his Vice-Pres and several other re-elections, e) W8+ will be added to the Under-23s from 2006 onwards, f) Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were added as the 119th and 120th members of FISA. No comment in the FISA press release about lightweight eights....
- I did a long-ish feature for the Telegraph before the Worlds, about two of the British team. Annoyingly, they never got round to printing it. So here it is.
- James Cracknell's going to be a busy boy over Christmas - he's rowing the Atlantic with TV presenter Ben Fogle. There's an interestingly wrong version of the Pinsent/Cracknell pair story. I wonder how easy Crackers will find it to come back after 18-24 months off full-time training, if he decides, mid-ocean, that Beijing is worth a shot. The Ocean Rowing Society page has links, news and a lot more about ocean rowing as well as the previous races. The official website is less informative, no list of entrants yet, for instance.
Sunday 4th September 2005
- Sunday live-written RQ commentary from the Worlds second finals day.
Saturday 3rd September 2005
- Important message from FISA re: start times for Sunday's racing. They've decided to try and avoid wind and thunderstorms forecast for the middle of Sunday, so are beginning racing 3/4 hour earlier than planned and squashing the B finals up more. A finals will start at 9:30am local time (GMT+9), for anyone intending to watch the race tracker or the online streaming (outside Europe). The updated timetable can be found here as a PDF file.
- From the Worlds - live-written RQ commentary.
- An announcement from FISA on Saturday morning: "Based on the recommendation of the FISA Athletes Commission, the FISA Council determined that race times recorded on regatta courses with a significant water mass flow will not be considered as World Best Times.
Based on this principle, the race times recorded here at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu will not be considered as World Best Times and the World Best Times up until these Championships will be returned to the record books.
The FISA Council and relevant Commissions will start a study to determine the threshold level of water mass flow for future FISA Events."
- For those who aren't already aware, FISA have said they will be awarding a full medal set where possible, so the men's pair-plus and lightweight eight all get medals, wherever they finish.
- Worlds coverage of various types on FISA, NLRoei (Netherlands), Row2k (USA), Canottaggio Vero (Italy), Rudern1 (Germany), and various national federations are keeping their team stories updated.
- There's an online radio interview with Mahe Drysdale (done before his final) in which he reveals his eclectic taste in music including that classic rowing choice 'Eye of the Tiger'. Niiiiiice.
- On a much more serious note, I saw a newsfeed a little while ago which said that 39-year-old Captain Mike Seares, MBE, an RAF Jaguar pilot and former British junior cox, was found dead at his Oxfordshire home on Wednesday. No details of the cause yet released. I suspect from his age a lot of current British rowers may have overlapped with him, and this is clearly tragic news. The full bulletin is reproduced in the Norwich Evening News (UK).
- Latest on Hacker and that log - Tree stops Hacker - Fin broke out of the boat (Rudern1, Germany, translated into English).
Friday 2nd September 2005
- A short Wibble from the Worlds from RQ.
- Bulletin no. 2 for the Eton 2006 World Championships can now be downloaded as a PDF from the 2006 website. It's in English - translations to follow.
- Weybridge's website (UK) has details of the Silver Sculls (22nd October) and Weybridge's 125th anniversary dinner (19th November).
- Godfrey Sports (UK) have new breathable performance t-shirts, and matching shorts, as well as black and white Lakotas.
- Team Sevenoaks (UK) are four rugby players rowing the North Atlantic next year. Brave stuff.
- NLRoei's Worlds photo-album is filling up.
Thursday 1st September 2005
- On Row2k, a heartfelt letter from a Tulane rowing coach (USA).
