Early last Summer, with still no word about when (or even if)  Daniel Brown’s bestseller  Boys in the Boat  movie would begin production,...

Tuesday March 22 the afternoon was swept up the stairs with festive airs as boaters migrated laden with tasty treats to share. The...

Heidi Danilchik (Lucy Pocock-Stillwell’s granddaughter) shared this article with us. “Sculling for Girls” (1906) It starts out as a puff...

While the rest of us were trifling with riggers and foot stretchers during the 2015 HOTL, Ted Shoulberg, Rat Island’s Most Interesting...

Guy Harper – The Quinault shell is the very Pocock boat that started my own interest in the rowing club at Port Townsend. I had taken my...

Jane was lucky enough to study under LWRC’s Hall of Fame coach Frank Cunningham – and last Friday we were lucky enough to have her share...

We snuck this one in just under the wire during a week of gale warnings. Loading the boats was interesting as the small craft advisory...

OCT Restoration Fundraiser 2015 : Grand Prize Recipient Experience By Kathleen Sailer: Last Spring the Oct Restoration campaign was...

For the complete albums of of Mike Sweeney’s incredible photos, go here and here (and don’t forget to give him a great big thanks in...

THE RACE The 2015 Wooden Boat Festival Rowing Race for all human powered boats went off without a hitch. We had 18 entrantants in...

High rates and hard pulling, when combined with bad rowing, do not make a boat go fast. – Stan Pocock Way Enough p.239 There is so much...

By Sally Giesler A whole new interest in wooden racing shells has taken off these days since the bestselling book The Boys in the Boat by...

It was the perfect day – light wind and almost glass calm in spots. As we splashed around in our own backyard  paddling pool, a blanket...

Guy Harper – The KATHY WHITMAN (built in 1976) was originally equipped both as an eight and later equipped as a sixteen oared boat…with...

Another one for the scrapbook! Thanks to Steve Chapin and Sally Giesler, the Rat Island Regatta was – to quote Linda Deal – “A lovely day...

Lucy Pocock Stillwell  was the  older sister of rowing legend George Pocock whom she essentially raised  (George was only 6 months old...

This 3-minute video tells why the story of  the “Boats” (Pocock’s gold medal winning wood shells) stretched far beyond the 1936 victory...

It was a bit like a dream.   Lucy, Swifty (two of my grown kids) and I were standing outside the Port Townsend Maritime Center which is a...

The Frank C. was originally built for the Washington Athletic Club to compete in the trials for the 1960 Olympics. Six years earlier,...

A message from Steve Jeffries Greetings from your new Safety Officer.  The following information is suggested only for all rowers and...