The Head of the Lake 2018 Regatta—the 39th annual—hosted by the University of Washington was a winner this year, coinciding with a gorgeous fall day, nothing like last year’s wintery hydrothermia-inducing event that was ultimately cancelled...
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...
We have heard so much about the working-class U.S. Olympic rowing team from the University of Washington—the “boys in the boat”—that defeated Hitler’s finest in 1936. We know about its important connection to George Pocock who...
Saturday, May 5, at the Windermere Cup 2018 in Seattle’s Mountlake Cut, the Bainbridge Island Rowing Men’s Masters 8+ in the 55+/65+ age category squeezed across the finish line a mere five tenths of a second before Station L Rowing...
When the Port Townsend Rat Island Rowing & Sculling Club (RIRSC) Board donated the historic, cedar-built Pocock shell Quinault to Bainbridge Island Rowing in October, the BIR Board knew it was historically significant: The University of...