Looking good, Nashie!

Our team was there as well, crazy conditions! The main issue was the cold in addition to the rain, together it was a miserable combination, almost dangerous.

what's crazier - the number of boats or the lines to the bathrooms?....

PAINT IT BLACK!

Now, I realize everyone loves their Empachers and their Vespolis, but in all seriousness, this picture brings up the question: What if rowing (at the collegiate level or higher) were like stock-car racing or sailing – everyone (within a category) rowing the same hull? FISA, for the purpose of accessibility to poorer nations, considered this some years back for international racing, and had Klaus Filter design a whole set of hulls with the plans made available to boatmakers for free. Boats at Worlds and the Olympics these days are weighed and must be sectional hulls (amongst other specifications). A universal hull would have to be something that offered reasonable performance (but not in trim lines e.g. "Millennium," Elite, etc.), was customizable within a certain range, and would be inspected before competition to make sure it hadn’t been modified. What says y'all? /no points awarded to the person who points out that three of these boats are not Vespoli E-hulls.

Can it hippie! Go General!

I agree! Anyways, my crew at least, works differently depending on the hull - the differences between boats are so minimal. AND I would like to point out - as a sailor - that not everyone has the same boats! Differences in sails can make the slightest difference! It's really a matter of how the crew can perform, not what they perform in.

Row.with.wings, do you realize in your paragraph you contradicted yourself in each preceding sentence? I chose to agree with your last sentence: "It's really a matter of how the crew can perform, not what they perform in."

I am confused by row.with.wings post. Are you saying that the differences between boats are already minimal, so why bother standardizing? Or that differences do matter and that we should standardize things? I also agree with the last sentence, in that how the crew performs is the point - but is that achievable with crews rowing different hulls?

I'm bow #71 on the far right. It was a mess!

What a mess. The chase is only getting bigger, and needs another launching/landing area. Major equipment and safety hazard.

get your blades off the water, port side!

hey jen

At Wisco, everything is a seat race...sounds like Simon won this one.

...so is Toto in the coach boat?

They are actually sea lions

seals + rowing = best combination ever.

So many times we tried to do that with the bouies on the Mohawk without success.

buoys

The Brazos River in Waco is ALWAYS smooth! SIC EM BEARS!! When you northerners get tired of your ICE water, come to central Texas in January and February where you need only long sleeve shirts and shorts to be out doors. ;)

I was bow. FML

The Brazos River in Waco was so calm and had so little traffic that our coach had to wake us in practice so we would be able to row on rougher race courses.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. You could lose an eye doing that. But seriously, when you have to cheat to beat the frosh, it's time to rethink your traditions.....

I think it's hilarious

The varsity are helping the alumni, from the launch, beat the frosh. Row on the Ohio and shoot a barge wake, that wake is nothing. Hope the alumni won, Go Mc

Whoever was in that launch was an idiot. I've seen 8+'s snapped in 2 by wakes like that.

Now how is the coach going to insist that the team take good care of the equipment?

Whichever coach did that is a complete wanker.

wether there is a lunch close or not that's still really unsafe. the entire bow is under water.

i was actually most worried about the boat

Before anyone says this isn't safe I would like to point out there is obviously a launch close by.

sharpie marker, it really is a piece of art.

what this design really needs is a picture of Matt Muffelman

Hope that's just a vinyl decal... otherwise I wouldn't have the heart to sand into that if they crushed it on the dock.

Well, there you go... now you've jinx-ed it. Mind as well give it to the novices now.

Frame it and put it on my wall.

THEY'RE NOT FOOLING ME, SOMEONE THROUGH A BANANA IN THE LANE!!

I think that this photograph is about love. Love of rowing, the pure simplicity and grace of this beautiful sport is right here in front my eyes.

theres that beautiful sharrow

One of these rowers is not like the others

A golden morning row.

Wuz this picture taken in Australia with an american camera?

That photo makes me dizzy.

I once saw a boat where every SEAT was named. Names down the whole boat. Don't know what you'd call that for short...

Our high school program has an 8+ where each seat has a name decided by the top 8 donors for that boat. Some have the names of their daughters who were seniors, others have the names of the donors. The nice thing about this is that the names are inside the gunwales, so it doesn't look like a floating billboard. It is a nice incentive to raise money for new equipment.

I've seen a college's boat where every seat had a label for the name of each rower who had rowed over a million meters that winter, and the number of meters they'd rowed. Talk about intimidating -- a whole boat of guys who worked really hard off the water all off-season to come beat on you in spring.

Don't they do that to honor donors. Iv'e seen high schools and colleges do that. I've seen names at every seat when a crew wins something big (i.e. Henley). They put the rower's name so the next guy remembers who's seat he's sitting in and what kind of shoes he is filling. Stanford also did something similar except they put each rower's parents' names to remember Honor et Familia.

I kinda like the idea of adding the parents name.

How do you walk boats down those ramps? I'll be cheering for you at HOCR - you all deserve a medal just for figuring out a way to practice!

Mesmerizing. Now I'm eager to see the photos of Ellen at work, with torch in hand...

Thanks from Ellen to everyone for these encouraging comments! Yes, I did breathe during the month-long installation this summer, but it was indeed a delicate operation...

Uncanny, but did anyone actually breathe during the hanging of this (FRAGILE) work of art?

May I have one please???

gorgeous. unbelievable - love it.

I've seen a lot of rowing "art" over the years; this is one of the most original and beautiful pieces I've ever seen.

My mind is thoroughly blown.

Amazing. So appropriate. Simple, elegant, evocative.

What a beautiful sculpture!

The Mile High Rowing Club is a Denver, Colorado based club for HIGH SCHOOL Students.

What's it take to join the mile high club?

This photo really captures the big sky and wide open spaces. I still find it hard to believe that a muddy riverbed has become and is continuing to evolve into a fantastic rowing venue for the Great Plains. Yes, the winds can present problems (we have lost two, or is it three, tents), but when the winds cooperate the folks in OKC do an amazing job. Thank you OKC for providing this venue and so many youth rowing opportunities. From Dallas, we have two options -- Austin and OKC. Both are staffed by amazing folks.

You're lucky the weather cooperated. I've been up there for three regattas and all three were canceled because the high winds made the river unrowable.

One question, Mr. Wood; Rumour has it that the CRASH-B sprints were originally called "the charles river association of Scullers -has-beens". is this true?

Help Me Please.......My nose itches! Tomorrow when I dress up as a Battleship I won't have that problem........

You should see the guy he shot down.

This looks like a good way to drown.

I like the old skool van dusen. Just like the one I used in the jr16 single in Los Gatos in 1984.

I think mine was the model with the retractible landing gear though

I have to ask... Why?

Keep Tiff away from anyone named Arthur Brown. He might sink.

FLUGTAG!

If you are an Olympian and have a World Championship Medal, you can wear whatever you want...

You'd definitely need to keep your elbows up at the finish in this rig, whew.

Absolutely Fabulous! ... I'm left to wonder: Will he wear this on the Charles come Oct. 17? If I'm not mistaken, TIff will scull in Event #1... Grand Masters Single.. regards, ~~ Baron von Leftover

Actually, that's 14X, my mixed Summer Rowing League team. I'm in 7 seat so it's not all women, ha! Don't mess with us, Mr. Freighter!

"Gimme 10 to move guys - we're almost at their bow!" Actually, I know this team - Western Reserve masters women. Freighters like this are a normal occurence on the Cuyahoga & we're all EXTREMELY safe rowers b/c of it. This team is made up of some pretty phenomenal women, on and off the water!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

The deep-water shipping channel - runs from SF to Stockton, through Sacramento. I was out in a 1x, looking over my shoulder at what should have been blue sky and a bridge but looked like a gunmetal-gray wall. It was a chip-ship (like a container ship, but for wood chips). The little musicbox in my head was playing "nowhere to run to..." because that was the truth. Starboard oar on the rocks, port oar bouncing in the turbulence (which was thankfully minor). I don't know who was more terrified - me, or the captain who was probably imagining his license going up in flames right then and there.

Many of us who row on urban rivers have to contend with water of questionable quality. I've always been amazed that anyone is able to row in Cleveland on the same water as lake freighters like the one on the left in this photo. I cannot imagine what it must be like to be in a single next to one of those.

Try rowing in the Anacostia River in DC - esp. after it rains. Not only does it look like a logging mill is pushing timber to market, we get raw sewage, tons of plastic bottles, the occasional refrigerator and 100gallon drum, upholstry (both attached to items and on its own, remnants of furniture, condoms, needles, food wrappers, plastic bags, iridescent sludge,half-dead and completely dead animals and so on. Its water though, and it works for rowing. Better than the erg.

The coach of a friend of mine said he rowed in that filth. Tons of old condoms, sewage and garbage floating in there. Even saw a bloated dead raccoon floating by at one point. He apparently got pink eye after some water splashed in his face. They ought to bar rowers from there before someone gets really sick. Cleveland is a dump!

"We have alignment...Sit Ready...."

That is some pretty nice looking water.

Who knew the Hudson could be so flat...

Kudos to Marist for reenaacting this history. A good read for more rowing history of this era is Susan Saint Sing's "The Wonder Crew".

Agreed. That is a good book.