Stan Pocock Legacy Rowing Center – Bainbridge Island Rowing

BIR’s Rowing Center Gets Its Bones

BIR’s Rowing Center is all framed up in Waterfront Park and about to be sealed. The plein-air cement foundation that for several years has housed the rowing club’s boats, team meetings, and erg sessions now has a second story, walls, and...

January 16, 2020

Dream Big 2018: A Dream Well Caught

On a chilly Saturday evening in November, almost 200 Kitsap County rowers and regional supporters of rowing came together at Bainbridge Island's Wing Point Country Club to enjoy a night of fine food, excellent company and stirring speeches in...

November 28, 2018

Stanley Richard Pocock’s Legacy—From UW to BI

Stanley Richard Pocock’s legacy spans some of the most successful decades of rowing at the University of Washington and extends from the UW boathouse across the Sound to the site of the future BIR boathouse on Bainbridge Island. Stan Pocock...

August 15, 2018

Top Ten BIR Facts You Didn’t Know

You know Bainbridge Island Rowing for its great competitive and Learn-to-Row programs, its active role in the community, and its Stan Pocock Legacy Rowing Center, which is in construction at Waterfront Park. But here are the top ten BIR facts you...

July 31, 2018

25 More Rowers Get in the Boat on National Learn to Row Day

Twenty-five people gave rowing a try for the first time during National Learn to Row Day last Saturday, June 2nd, with Bainbridge Island Rowing. These new rowers joined the ever-growing cadre of people on Bainbridge who have taken a step closer to...

June 7, 2018

Our Mission: Get You on the Water (Let’s Start with Saturday)

Because Bainbridge, home to our new boathouse in progress, is an Island, you’d think that most Islanders would have regular occasion and opportunity to be out on the water. But they don’t. Bainbridge Island Rowing is dedicated to...

January 31, 2018

BIR Auction Record Broken, with More to Come

The BIR auction goal was to raise money for the partly completed Stan Pocock Legacy Rowing Center and succeeded in spades, generating a whopping $153,000

December 1, 2017

On Giving Tuesday Support Construction of First Rowing Center in Kitsap

Bainbridge Island’s future rowing center, The Stan Pocock Legacy Rowing Center, will be the first of its kind in Kitsap County. The Center will provide much-needed support for rowing programs in the greater West Sound community. But the Rowing...

November 28, 2017

2017 BIR Auction Attendees Dream Big: Slideshow

Last night, November 17, a crowd packed into Wing Point Golf Club for the Bainbridge Island Rowing 2017 dinner and auction and to dream big about the future of rowing on Bainbridge Island. The attendees, who spanned some 70 or 80 years in age...

November 19, 2017

Purchase Tickets Now for Dream Big 2017 Dinner & Auction November 18

Join BIR at Dream Big for a memorable night of great food and community at Wing Point Country Club!

November 12, 2017

Bainbridge Rowing Center Plan View North

BIR’s Rowing Center Gets a BIG Name and Major Donation

Bainbridge Island’s future rowing center, which will be the first of its kind in Kitsap County and provide much-needed support for rowing programs in the greater West Sound community, has got a name: The Stan Pocock Legacy Rowing Center. The...

November 12, 2017

Historic Pocock Shell QUINAULT Donated to BIR

We are excited to announce that the Port Townsend Rat Island Rowing & Sculling Club (RIRSC) Board has generously donated the historic, cedar built Pocock shell QUINAULT to BIR. This rowing shell has great significance to many rowers in the Puget...

October 15, 2017