By Kathleen Sailer. Photos and video by Emily Adams. On a radiant morning in late July, RIRSC hosted Seattle guests Mike and Kathy...

Today is the Day of joy and trepidation for we shall do a procedure which has risks : We will be cutting 3/64th relief lines in the hull...

In the past couple of weeks two events happened in my rowing life : One joyous and the other curious. Each has its path to convergence...

March 30, 2023 Hi Folks, I have been around a wide circle of people who enjoy working on wooden racing shells, and have never heard...

March 22, 2023 Hi Folks, We are living our own History as we preserve History. I am the last of the founders who is still actively...

March 10, 2023 Hi Folks, 7 or 8 of us are sanding away when who should drop by but Steve Chapin...... I can't focus on my task, I have...

In the midst of rain, clouds, darkness, Stan Pocock (or maybe Neptune?) opened the skies for a glorious day for the de-naming of the...

Stan Pocock Way Enough, p. 109 The Huskies finished a close second to Cornell, who nipped them at the finish. John “Gimp” Halberg went on...

Stan Pocock Way Enough P.299 The pause before the catch, which we always insisted upon, was designed to eliminate the tendency of some...

Stan Pocock Way Enough p. 71 Two of the frosh came into the shop one afternoon, each complaining that his feathering wrist hurt like hell...

This one’s for our own pilot Ed Kirkpatrick who donated the Riverside to our club and graciously agreed to renaming her the Stan Pocock....

Stan Pocock Way Enough p. 286 I was resting on the bank of the Seneca River at Syracuse, enjoying a respite from the goings on around the...

Stan Pocock Way Enough p. 162-165 I couldn't go along with that style.[pause in the bow, rush up, snatch and grab] …For one, I wanted my...

Stan Pocock Way Enough p 237 1968 was also the busiest year we ever had in the shop. During those eleven months we built 125 boats of all...

Stan Pocock Way Enough p. 258 After we took Dad home, I moved in to be with him and give support to Mother as best I could. Mrs. Blix, a...

We are honored to announce that on May 6 at 10am (at our boathouse) one of the last shells Stan built for the Olympics will be renamed...

Berlin 1936 Raw Footage from Lenville ODonnell on Vimeo. UW Rowing Practice For 1940 Games (1939) from Lenville ODonnell on Vimeo.

2022 Update: Steve Chapin's boatshop is no longer located in the Point Hudson Marina. ONE OF A KIND There are only three National...

Standing l to r. siblings Richard (Dick), George and Lucy. Seated sister Julia (Ju), Kathleen (Kath) and father Aaron (Fred) Pocock....

In the closest finish ever recorded in a trial, Harvard defeated this mighty Pennsylvania crew at Long Beach by less than a foot, earning...