Greeting fellow open water racers! This group is an attempt to give us a place to discuss races, training, tips, equipment, and whatever else may come up related to open water racing. Welcome and

This Saturday is the San Juan Challenge. On the list of recommended safety equipment are things like aerial flares, smoke flares, VHF radio, etc. All of these things are certainly good to have. My

Anyone have a used concept2 erg to sell or have advice about the easiest way to find a used one for sale? Thanks. Hugh Conroy Bellingham, WA

We made it across the country and successfully dropped the boat off in Buffalo, NY. We survived high winds, severe thunderstorms, hail, lightning, just missed a tornado, avoided bison, moose,

Sound Rowers member Robert Meenk is competing at the USRowing National Championships, taking place July 22-27 on the Cooper River in Camden County, N.J. Thus far, Robert has won both his heats in

Hi All, I will be offering a Maas boats demo day on Bainbridge at Waterfront Park following our race. One of each Maas boat will be on hand for folks to try (sign up for 40 minute rows). I'll also

Looking forward to this Saturday's race. My son and I will be on a double surfski ("Millenium") owned by the Bellingham Race Club. We've never been in salt water or in the boat more than a

They are a bit soggy, but they can be viewed at http://snorlax.lampi.org/images/030809/HTML/INDEX.HTM and photos Beverly Torok-Storb took can be seen

Late season "row-down". The Bellinghamster surf ski flotilla will be out for this. The flat water tends to favor the fast rowers. Micky runs a very efficient race (just ask him) and you'll know

The race is September 27 and not September 20. This reflects a change made between the original but tentative calendar and the final calendar adopted after the Annual Meeting. Hope to see you in 8

Need finish-line-timer-persons or other logistics helpers. I've discovered that I'm the race director! This should be wonderful personal growth experience. Disregard the earlier post about my son

The Sound Rowers annual meeting in December will take place at the Cascade boathouse in Renton - NOT at the Pocock center as in prior years. Date and time are the same: December 6th at 10 a.m.

Will there be an outing on the water after the meeting? --Michael Lampi

Round Shaw results are now on the website - thanks to Jeff Knakal for his persistance in tracking them down!

The Medina-Mercer Sausage Pull photos I took are available now at http://snorlax.lampi.org/images/031011/INDEX.HTM. Since there are 180 photos, it takes a while to download before clicking on the

Ok, so due to technical difficulties I was not able to take photos at the start of this race. However, I *did* manage to take some during the race. My wife had intended to enter using our Escapade,

Has anyone used this new paddling outerwear? In my surfski workouts my lower body and extremeties suffer for the cold. Also interested in Glove/footwear reviews. I know of one Bellingham guy

The next newsletter will go out to the printers on Monday, Nov 10. This is the last newsletter before the annual meeting. If anyone would like to put in a plea to the membership to take over that

I've sorted the results from all of this year's races and assigned points equal to each person's percentile rank in each race. Here are this year's top 100 finishers (there were 411 competitors)

Shane has compiled a tentative race schedule for 2004, which will be discussed and (mostly) finalized at the annual meeting this Saturday. I've updated our webpage to reflect this, if anyone wants