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Fall Opener

The Fall Racing Season opened with The Textile River Regatta on Sunday 9/30, during Bowdoin’s Family Weekend.

On Sat. we welcomed rowing families at the Boathouse where we dedicated the Tafts’ gift of our new Pocock K4, announced a major gift to the endowment, and gave folks a chance to try a hand at the oar in the eights. Then we loaded the trailer to head to Lowell for the annual opener on the Merrimack River.

Many families made their way to the river and the great spirit of Sat.’s fesitivites made its way with them. And the crews were fast!

The Varsity Women won the Open 4 by :29 with an agressive row over the top of the course and impressive finish below the bridge.

The Varsity Men in the Open 4 zoomed to silver with a similar race plan, only :11 behind home course powerhouse Merrimack and :12 ahead of Riverside. WPI was the closest collegiate crew over a minute behind the Bears.

The Novice Men opened the medal run in the morning in the 4 with a silver, and two Novice Women’s 4’s dashed to bronze and a 5th.

Scott Mitchell powered his way to a bronze in the Club 1x, just 2 seconds out of silver.

In the eights, the both WN8 and MN8 were 4th, and the VM8 came 11th while the WV8 was 12th.

And a four full of alumni men prepping for the Charles came 11th in the Open 4!

All around, it was a wonderful fall weekend, and thanks go out to rowing families and the rowers themselves for making it so fun to race boats!

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Mid Spring Catch Up

With its strongest spring start in years, the Bowdoin Navy is anticipating an equally strong finish as we head into the championship phase of the spring.

On Sunday 4/22 the Varsity Men and Women both won their events at the President’s Cup with Colby and Bates before racing was suspended due to high winds and waves on the Androscoggin.  The day before at the Riverhawk Racing Series at UMASS, these 2 crews finished within a second of their rivals  at UVM.  Both Men’s and Women’s Second Varsity crews won their events.

At The Big Three on 4/14 Amherst hosted Bowdoin and Middlebury and the Polar Bears came away with wins in the Men’s and Women’s Varsity Fours, and the Men’s 2V4. The W2V took 2nd, and the Novice Men and Women were 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The Big Three was especially fun as we dedicated the newest hull in the fleet and captured the inaugural Cup for the M2V.  Pete and Mara Taft provided a new Pocock named Trigger to honor their longstanding canine companion, who attended and delighted the team for almost every Bowdoin race for the 4 years that Molly ’11 rowed in the Navy.  And Hunt Dowse ’69 was with us to present the Cup named in his honor for his tremendous support of rowing at Bowdoin.

With the New England Rowing Championships coming up on May 5, The Navy is excited about the prospects of fast racing in strong fields across the regatta.

We travel to Worcester 4/28 to test the waters with Amherst and Conn for one last shot at Quinsigamond before the NERC.