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Mike Davenport from MaxRigging talks how to learn boat rigging and the tools you need. Mike wrote THE book on rowing rigging – The Nuts And Bolts Guide to Rigging. Get it on his website [...]

James coaches the New Zealand womens lightweight double scull and the heavyweight double scull, Both won gold at last year’s World Rowing Championships and are hot prospects for gold at the Tokyo [...]

Sarah Winckless is a multiple Olympian for British Rowing and a leading umpire (referee) and advocate for women’s rowing. She’s just been appointed the umpire for the 2020 Oxford and [...]

  The sport of rowing is seeing a giant growth in membership from women over the age of 40. Why? What is it about mid-life that makes a traditional water sport so attractive? Let me start by [...]

A veteran of international rowing and high performance sport, Volker Nolte is recently retired and now has time for even more rowing. He has coached for Canada and competed for Germany in his [...]

JL Racing has gone through a challenging year, moving manufacturing to El Salvador and dealing with several other issues. Founder and former National Team member Joline Esparza tells us [...]

Rebecca Caroe who founded the Rowing Chat network, has just published her book, Rowing Tales. It’s a collection of 35 short stories on rowing themes – told to her by rowers, coaches [...]

Jess Richardson is coaching para athletes in Vanuatu, the Pacific Island. Her first love is rowing and she also coaches at the local rowing club. In this interview she explains how she got [...]

Ruth Marr started the Rowing the World business to combine her passion for rowing and adventure travel. She and I discuss how she has successfully built a rowing business that takes guests around [...]

In rowing and in business reputation counts for a lot. Coming back from a bad experience is even more challenging. The JL Racing business has had a torrid year and is fighting back to the [...]