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• RBC Horrorshow: Halloween on the Charles
  I get all misty eyed thinking of the 30-deep field for the Armada Cup Boston: a Hawaiian tourist here, a bumble bee there-oh look, there's a dude in gold sequined flashdance 4ss pants! And what's this? What do my keen ears detect? Could it be the Bee Gees' "Stayin Alive" drifting out across the field?

• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
  Junior lightweight rower Samantha Brecht makes her row2k debut with an essay on high school rowing in Philadelphia from the rower's perspective

• The 2K
  If you are one who participates in the "legendary" sport called crew, you certainly know the one aspect that is dreaded by all, the 2k.

• Kerry Encounter at the 2006 Head Of The Charles Regatta
  I stop, look at him, and said, "Dude, you look a lot like John Kerry" He responds; "because I am".

• Tell Me Rowers
  Tell me rowers eight and strong, why do you pull the boat along?

• Best Lesson I Ever Had!
  

• Christening of the Charlie Grimes
  Comments from David H. Wight of the 1956 Olympic Crew

• Note to the Rowing Community from John and Phoebe Murphy
  

• Orange and Maroon Effect Day at SIRA's
  

• Misty Morning
  ...a boat gliding across the water, the movement of the crew reduced by the fog. A boat of the dead, the Flying Dutchmen of Townlake.

• Eight Tough Minutes: Lindsay Meyer
  US JW1x bronze medalist Lindsay Meyer's account of her Jr. Worlds semifinal; in 2006, Meyer was the first U.S. junior women's sculler ever to medal at the World Championships

• Vires et Honestas
  "Attention!" This is it. Are you ready?

• Head of the Fox Salutes Matt Fox
  The 17th annual Tail of the Fox Regatta in was about a lot more than a great day of racing on the Fox River.

• Next thing I know, I am under water
  We proceeded at stately pace through the basin, in a two story tall power boat, with an orange Van Dusen perched across the rear guardrails, gently waking everyone and everything

• 8,999 Meters
  Nothing quite like a warm bath in the morning...

• Camp Reflections
  "We learned from the coaching; we learned from each other:" Jim Preston recalls a week at The All American Rowing Camp masters camps

• If you're rowing in Texas while Dick Cheney's out hunting, what boat should you row?
  

• Early Morning
  

• Coxswains Can Fly
  This is not the story of a first practice, or a novice race, or a monster crab. No.

• An Ode to the 8
  Heavy, outdated, full of wood/You gave us the best that you could.

• The High School Rowing Life
  My friends think I’m crazy.

• The Colgate Snow Coxed Four
  Ready all - melt - please...

• Sully's Rowing Christmas Carols
  

• Torque gets first!!!
  

• Otter Attacks Coaching Staff
  Otter terrorizes rowing coaches

• Rowing in Iraq
  Letter from Iraq, Diane F. Godorov, D.O. CPT MC, US Army

• A crab in the life of a novice eight
  Whoah, Coach never told me that could happen

• The Worst Erg Music
  Stop asking me why we build castles in the sky - I'm trying to erg!

• A Rowing Billet-Doux
  Darling...

• Shakespeare on Morning Practices
  To bed, or not to bed: that is the question:
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to linger
  Twixt sheets and pillows of luxurious fortune,
  Or to take oars to row a sea of honors,
  And by stroking win them? To row--or sleep...