Open rowing started at 07.30 today, a gruesome time. A bunch of photographers were shivering outside the pub as I arrived, and one of them...

Went rowing with the Dinghy Cruising Association today, from Itchenor to Sandy Point, the spit of land on the Hayling Island side of Chich...

Went rowing in the pilot gig Heart of Hayling on Boxing Day morning, a lovely crisp windless midwinter day. Chris Bream played the mouth o...

Paul Fisher has sent me a design he has had on his drawing board for a while, from one of those projects that starts with enthusiasm and t...

Taking a 30ft galley up a narrow winding river with oars sticking out either side is not easy, so on our jaunt up the Hamble to the curry ...

Talking of carbon oars, I am finally refurbishing the second hand pairs I bought for Langstone Cutters' sculling boats.  The rubbis...

Oars are such a nightmare. To carry, to photograph, to wrap, to send in the post.... Anyway, Steve Woods has a number of practically-ne...