Interesting #rowing fact that I found out today, the boatbuilder Carbocraft (founded by the legendary Bob Janousek) used to be owned/financed by Pink Floyd

An open letter from former Olympian Robert Lücken raising significant concerns about the departure of a number of highly experienced coaches from the Dutch Rowing team and the appointment of inexperienced or unsuitable replacements nlroei.nl/open-brief-v...

Henley Royal Regatta have just announced that the ScottishRowing championships will be used in assessing entries for pre-qualification for the 2026 Royal regatta. Great news for clubs, schools and Unis in Scotland and Northern England

Just spotted in Waze that @mattpinsent.bsky.social is Pincent!

Congratulations to @mattpinsent.bsky.social jnr on his win at the Eastern Sprints for the Harvard Lightweight 3V

A culture of fear at Rowing Australia www.news.com.au/sport/olympi...

Last minute change to the CUBC men’s Blue Boat with Tom Macky being dropped to Goldie and Luke Beever stepping up. Also Simon Hatcher and Luca Ferraro swap seats (bow and 7). #TheBoatRace

So, with Juniors on Friday, seniors on Saturday and Masters on Sunday this has the makings of the biggest 3-day #rowing festival in Britain (& maybe Europe). Potentially over 1000 crews could race during the 3 days

Big changes for the Fours ahead 2025 with the split between senior and junior events. Should hopefully free up space for all senior crews to race that want to, and also that the junior event quickly establishes itself as a major event in the junior calendar fourshead.org/2025/04/08/c...

jrn.news/the-boat-rac... My annual seat-by-seat preview of the men’s Boat Race crews

jrn.news/the-boat-rac... my annual seat-by-seat preview of the women’s Boat Race crews

Just wondering if, with everything going on in the USA at the moment, the prospect of studying and #rowing at an American University will become less and less attractive to non-Americans.

CUBC have named their reserve crews for #TheBoatRace the women’s reserve crew (Blondie) are coxed by Louis De Neve who, at 193cm, is the tallest in the crew and possibly the tallest cox to ever race in either reserves or Blue Boat

Very sad news

Goodbye repechages and hello Mixed 8’s. World #Rowing make major changes ahead of the 2025 season worldrowing.com/2025/03/17/r...

CUBC athletes studying for a PGCE have been ruled as ineligible to compete in this year’s Boat Race. This rules out U23 World Champion Matt Heywood and 2024 lightweight cox Kate Crowley cubc.org.uk/2025/03/17/s...

Strong result for both Thames Rowing Club and Molesey Boat Club, 2nd and 3rd behind a star-studded NED W8 at the Heineken in Amsterdam #rowing

Could we see mixed 2X and 8+ (with mandatory doubling-up) at the #LA2028 #Olympics ? The proposal is being discussed at the World Rowing Congress

So a pet hate of mine (one of many as I get older and grumpier) why do clubs refer to their crews as 1V and 2V this makes me think they’re rowing a 5. It usually means “Varsity” which is a University team not a club….how hard is it to write 1st VIII instead??

Watching #DriveToSurvive storylines feel a little clunky….”Sainz has to perform”…he wins “Lando no wins”….he wins….”Leclerc Monaco curse”….Leclerc wins Monaco….all feels a bit contrived

Blimey! www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Before #GoldFever there was “Olympic Diaries” featuring Pinsent & Redgrave, a fascinating insight into the dynamics of their pair #rowing youtu.be/C9GcMRsyqfk?...

Interesting to read that #Paris2024 M8 champion, Tom Digby, is planning on returning to the sport after a bit of a break and is targeting racing in the M4- at #LA2028 #Rowing

Only just realised that there are only 2 World Rowing Cup Regattas this season rather than the usual 3 (Varese and Lucerne)

Obviously those 19th Century Eton #rowing types were a bit dodgy 🤣 (taken from Viceroys: The Creation of the British” by Christopher Lee).

Right, that’s my afternoon sorted 😃 #Lego

Watching this great programme about the 1978 World Rowing Championships youtu.be/oKnZo6HWqoc?...

Very impressive results from St Paul’s School at Quintin ahead of the River, 2nd overall by just 1 second. Is there any other team sport where a junior team is so competitive against the seniors? #rowing #rudern #aviron www.quintinhead.org/wp-content/u...

On HTBS: A brief notice from the Daily Mirror of London from July 1908. The unknown article writer called for women rowing at the Olympic Games! (Thank you, @evansthestats.bsky.social) heartheboatsing.com/2025/01/16/n...

On HTBS: The world most successful female rower in the PR1, Birgit Skarstein, of Norway, has retired, she announced on 1 January 2025. heartheboatsing.com/2025/01/15/b...

Interesting British Rowing, among others, proposing doing away with men's events at international level. WR proposing just a tweak of the current rule on gender eligibility #rowing

Goodbye 4+ 😢 #rowing #congress

German Rowing Federation on the hunt for a new chief coach #rowing #rudern

youtu.be/kmitjW3PMKA?... love watching some bow-steered 8’s #rowing

Enjoying reading this history of Oxford Brookes Boat Club, but it’s a bit annoying that former Henley Royal Regatta Chairman, Peter Coni’s name is misspelled throughout the book

Congratulations to Helen Glover, the LW2X, W4X and PR2 Mix2X all of whom have received recognition in the New Year’s Honours list, but surprised, and disappointed that British Rowing’s other Olympic gold medalists (M8 & PR3 Mix 4+) miss out.

The French #rowing Federation have appointed Antonio Maurogiovanni as Director of Rowing #Aviron www.ffaviron.fr/fr/actualite...

Is there a crisis brewing for US Rowing as two major organisations, the Scholastic Rowing Association of America (SRAA) and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) both announce they will not be renewing USR membership, nor require competing clubs/athletes to be members #rowing

For rowing people this will be interesting. www.hrr.co.uk/henley-royal...

A great appointment by British Rowing www.britishrowing.org/2024/12/nico...

Netherlands Chief rowing coach steps down following their most successful Olympics ever nlroei.nl/eelco-meenho...

Interesting proposals for the future World Championship #rowing events, reduction in lightweight events, adding mixed and also reducing para events

One of the things I find really strange when watching #NFL via #NFLgamepass is all the adverts for prescription drugs, such a weird concept for anyone outside of the USA.

Excellent news!

Real shame that the Fours Bead has been cancelled, never an easy decision for the organisers but not surprising given the atrocious weather forecast #rowing

Weather really not looking too good for this weekend’s Fours Head ☹️

Congratulations to the GB Olympic rowers for winning the SJA Team Of The Year Award 🍾