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Announcement, including statistics
General information
Newsgroups for discussion
Regatta results and information
Boat clubs and crews
Organizations
Information from individuals
Related sports information

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General information

• On-line dictionary definition of the word "row"; or Webster's definition - also available on-line. (Take your pick! :-) See also:
  • UK-US Rowing Glossary by Rachel Quarrell.
  • Various rowing terms at Oxford and elsewhere.

• An explanation of "bumps" and a photograph to show how it is done are available.

• Regatta is a leading specialist rowing magazine. See electronic contact information and an article on virtual rowing.

• The River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, UK. Rowing memorabilia, reminiscences, anecdotes, offers of help, etc., are welcome. Please contact the Director, Jane Bowen, via bowen@comlab.ox.ac.uk if you think you can help in any way. Information on the proposed galleries (with pictures), recent news, and a brief history of the sliding seat are available.

• The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races including 1995 information and Official Boat Race Page.

• The Independent Rowing News is a new US-based rowing newspaper established in October 1994.

• A Collection of Rowing Quotes from Dan Richman.

• Things Your Coxswain Should Never Say (anonymous!).

• Weight/Sex/Age Adjusted Ergo Ladder from Abingdon Rowing Club.

• The first generally available MPEG movie clips of rowers, warming up before the Head of the Charles. For UK and other European sites, one of the MPEG clips is here. Acknowledgement: Multimedia Communications Laboratory, Boston University, USA. (Beware: large files!)

• FISA International Regatta Calendar.

• UK rowing calendar, Irish rowing calendar, and UK contacts (except Oxford) by Rachel Quarrell.

• Personality Traits in an Eight by Mike Sullivan.

• An on-line international rowing address book, including email addresses, is available.

• 1996 Olympics rowing information: venue and ticket prices.

• Blades of the World including an on-line blade which can be downloaded, edited, and uploaded back to the same place. Email James Locke jlocke@wsnet.com with details of further blades.

Newsgroups for discussion

• The rec.sport.rowing newsgroup is the main electronic forum for discussing rowing:
  • Original result and charter from Dan Richman, February 1993.
  • Rowing FAQ (other versions in the US here and here). Frequently Asked Questions message by J.W. Younger, younger@stsci.edu.
  • Rowing in Cyberspace by Edward Hewitt - an article on the rec.sport.rowing newsgroup.

• A rec.boats.building newsgroup has been established in 1994 (see result and charter). See also the following USENET newsgroups:
  • rec.boats
  • rec.boats.paddle
  • rec.boats.racing

Regatta results and information

• The Henley Royal Regatta: 1994 results (also in brief).

• Lucerne: international 1994 results from Switzerland.

• UK National Championships: 1994 results from Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.

• World Rowing Championships: Eagle Creek Reservoir, Indianapolis, USA, 1994 results.
  • Monday, 12 September 1994
  • Tuesday, 13 September 1994
  • Wednesday a.m., 14 September 1994
  • Wednesday p.m., 14 September 1994
  • Saturday a.m., 17 September 1994
  • Sunday, 18 September 1994
  • A selection of results and information (large!)

• The Thirtieth Annual Head of the Charles Regatta results, October 1994 (large!). See also MPEG movie clips.

• Bedford Autumn Head results, UK (16 October 1994).

• The Fullers Head of the River Fours, UK (1994).

• USRA Test Results, USA (December 1994 / January 1995).

• CRASH-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships results and information, USA (1995).

• New England Rowing Championships, USA.

Boat Clubs and Crews

Canada:

• Montreal rowing, Canada, including rowing pictures and:
  • McGill University Rowing Club
  • Montreal Rowing Club
• University of New Brunswick Rowing Club, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Germany:

• Ruderklub am Wanssee e.V. Berlin (also in German).

Netherlands:

• AASR SKOLL, University of Amsterdam (also in Dutch).
• Amsterdam Student Boat Club "Nereus" (in Dutch; in English soon).
• De Delftsche Sport (DDS, in Dutch).
• DRV Euros, Drienerloo (in Dutch).
• Delft Student Rowing Club "Laga" (in Dutch).
• GYAS Boat Club, University of Groningen (also in Dutch).
• KGRV De Hunze, Groningen.
• NLroei national rowing service including a list of links to Dutch rowing clubs, etc. (in Dutch).
• ORCA, Algemene Utrechtse Studenten Roeivereniging (in Dutch).

Sweden:

• Academic Rowing Club, Stockholm. See also Akademiska roddföreningen in Swedish.

UK:

• Cambridge news (from Oxford :-)
• Halton College Squad Rowing & Liverpool Victoria Rowing Club. Contact Paul Watson Halton.College@cityscape.co.uk.
• Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames.
• Nottingham Boat Club.
• Oxford rowing, including information on OURC, OUBC, college boat clubs and from individuals. See also the current stream condition on the river, possibly the first such service in the world. London rowing/A>
• Wallingford Rowing Club.

USA:

• Bay Area Rowing Club of Houston.
• Cambridge Boat Club.
• Case Western Reserve University Crew.
• Columbia Crew.
• Georgia Tech Crew by Hody Crouch, Atlanta.
• Montgomery Rowing Club, Alabama. Includes many blades of the world.
• Mount Holyoke College Crew, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
• Open Water Rowing Center, Sausalito, California.
• University of Pennsylvania rowing.
• Princeton Crew (large graphics), including pictures.
• Rensselaer Crew including events, results, photos, cartoons and many other links. A good place for net surfing when you have exhausted this page!
• Rice Crew including photographs (28-29 October 1994) from Hannes Hofer.
• Riverside Boat Club, Boston.
• Washington College rowing.
• Three Rivers Rowing Association, Pittsburgh.

See also a list of crew clubs in the US.

Organizations

• Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), UK. Publish Regatta magazine. Email details here.

• Quinsigamond Rowing Association, MA, USA.

• USRowing Association, USA. Email USRowing@delphi.com.

Information from individuals

• Rachel Quarrell's Rowing Page including a list of rowing URL's.

• Rowing in the North of England (under development), including UK racing results.

• Rowing at Nottingham, UK by David Evans.

• Rowing information from Andy Squires, USA.

• 9th Traverse de Paris (8 October, 1994) including many rowing photographs by Arnd Gehrmann (in German). The best collection of rowing photos on the Web so far! [Acknowledgement: the nice rowing vista above was extracted and processed from one of the photographs in this archive.]

• Montreal rowing, Canada, by David Kabal.

• A section on rowing by Geoffrey Stanton Knauth, Massachusetts, USA.

Related sports information

• World Wide Web of Sports, including rowing and the option to create your own sports page.

• Other water sports in the WWW Virtual Library Sport page.

Bill Eager, Using the World Wide Web, QUE, 1994. Chapter 18, Sports, Games, Hobbies, Travel Cooking and Recreation, pp 534-5.

Further information, preferably on-line, is welcome for inclusion.

This service is brought to you by Jonathan Bowen as part of the OUCL archive. It was started as a result of the establishment of the River and Rowing Museum, and is supported by the museum.