Entries Set for Trials

Winning Independence Day Regatta in the LM4x, last 20 strokes or so.

USRowing Non-Olympic Senior World Championship Trials starts next week.  Our Light Men's Quad is entered at Malta Boat Club/Seattle Rowing Center composite, and we will be racing, at most, two other crews both from Vesper Boat Club.  Andrew Hashway, a good friend and one of the scullers who worked with us earlier this summer, will be rowing in the Light Men's Eight trials with Community Rowing Inc./Riverside Boat Club composite, possibly against an entry from Vesper.


My writeups are almost, ALMOST as exciting as this thrilling re-cap from Elite Nationals:  "The lightweight men’s quad was won by the composite entry from Malta Boat Club and Seattle Rowing Club in a time of 5:57.947, followed by Ottawa in the two-boat race. " - USRowing.org.  Wow.  Heart be still.  I should have braced myself before reading, didn't know I was in for a sneak peak akin to a mashup of The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man.  Here are some pics from the dock at IDR, photo credits row2k.com:

Like Kangaroos and most shark species, we are incapable of backward motion.

Sam brings all the good looks to the crew.

This year - when you win you get a cold water bottle.  2nd place, etc?  You get heat stroke.

"Hey, you guys actually looked really bad out there, anything to say for yourselves?"

Shane does a quick gun-check.  Yup, fully armed.