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Spring Tune Up

The unmistakable pink sleeves of Croker.

Boing! It’s Spring!

Spring. Time to get serious about getting serious about this thing called rowing. Or at least it’s time to look like you’re getting serious. So, start practicing your best race face for SportGraphics and in the meantime, also consider the rest …

If you’re on the member listserv, you know that if you act right now, you could have a new set of Crokers next week or even get your old sculls resleeved.  Croker rep Greg Doyle’s contact information is …

2013 Annual Meeting, Report of the Racing Committee

PBC racers from across the competitive programs and the club in San Diego at the San Diego Crew Classic.

The following is the Racing Committee Report for the 2013 Annual Meeting, submitted by its Chair, Penelope Wrenn. If you have any questions regarding this report or about the Racing Committee, please contact Penelope at racing[at]potomacstar.com.

On behalf of the Racing Committee, I would like to thank the entire club for your ongoing support of PBC Racing!  From a racing results standpoint, we’ve already started …

Finish Line looks to be the last word in boat repairs

Finish Line's Dan Reardon shows off an impressively long paint booth

The area’s rowing community has been eager to take advantage of a new competitor in the shell repair space, and now it can.

Finish Line's trailer pulls away from Potomac Boat Club with its first round of pick ups

Strategically located between the rowing hub cities of Washington and Philadelphia …

Special Reports and Polls

Don’t worry. Only 38 percent of you will need therapy after reading this.

Yep. Those are definitely PBC top hats.

Gosh.  So funny.

Remember that time you were filling out your security clearance paperwork and you had to ask your mom for a copy of her passport and you found out that not only was she 10 years older than she had been telling everyone your entire life, but that her birth name was something only she and her sisters could pronounce?

Oh.

Well, welcome to our world, Potomac Barge Club founded in 1859!  Click here to read yet more about …

Save the date! Dec. 13 – Public Info Mtg re Non-Motorized Boathouse Zone along G-town Waterfront

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING FEASIBILITY STUDY TO IMPLEMENT A NON-MOTORIZED BOATHOUSE ZONE ALONG THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK AND ROCK CREEK PARK

TIME/DATE: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Tuesday, December 13, 2011
PLACE: Washington Harbor, 3050 K Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20007

The National Park Service (NPS) will conduct a public information meeting on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, regarding a feasibility study to examine implementation of a non-motorized boathouse zone along the District of Columbia’s side of the Potomac River waterfront …

The Race Report

This week! National Selection Regatta 1

So, now that we’re back to the start of another four-year Olympic cycle, PBC Open Scullers are once again a mix of successful National Team veterans and fresh new talent.  The plan this year is to go all out for the honor of representing the United States at World Championships in South Korea.
 
But as we know, this step, although formidable, is just one more on the journey towards the ultimate goal of representing the nation at the Olympics in Rio.
 
This week, our PBC Open Sculling Program led by …

Crushing it coast to coast

Potomac BC Winners Men’s Masters A, 2013 San Diego Crew Classic

Seems a bit early in the year to be talking about destination rowing, let alone multiple wins, doesn’t it?  Well, we’re sure as heck not complaining. 

That’s right, PBC, with the Cherry Blossoms still intact back home, our racers hit it from sea to shining sea (or man-made venue to the bay, if you’re gonna be all technical …

san dieGO, PBC!

For the 2013 SDCC race schedule, click here … four PBC 8s to race!
To watch PBC race live, click here.
To get live Tweets of the results, click here.

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And they're off!

[The following is based on actual events. Only the names, locations and events have been changed.]

Sources reveal organizers of the west coast regatta currently known as the San Diego Crew Classic have …

Snap. SHOP results have gone multi-media. Sort of.

Until next year ... out.

[Correction: "Snap" should now read "Boom."]

From our regatta volunteers to the more than 400 participants who showed up at this year’s Charlie Butt Annual Scullers Head of the Potomac, thanks to everyone for making it such a huge success! 

Please visit the official results page linked here for all of the official results. 

Member Robert Shaffer took some great video of the races and posted them on Youtube here.

Finally, for a bunch of random photos from an afternoon at the finish line, please …

Coach Matt Madigan’s final update from London

Our Sarah Trowbridge makes the most of closing ceremonies. (Thanks to Scott Gault for giving her a lift!)

This is my final entry. Debated about sending it, but figured I better close it out.

Thanks for the support and great work on the ‘Star. Great stuff.
-Matt

We’re glad you sent it, Matt. We couldn’t have ask for anything more than you and the girls gave us during these Olympics Games. We’re so proud of you all.
-TPS

There is a picture that one …

Coach Matt Madigan from London: On to the A Final … in incredible fashion

Margot Shumway and Sarah Trowbridge are interviewed after a come from behind finish to get to the Final in the W2x in London.

What an incredible day of racing with come from behind victories and advancements more the norm than the exception. With racing in the Light Men’s Four, less than three seconds of margin between 1st and 4th in both races and with only three to go forward, and the Men’s Double with 3.07 seconds separating the six boats …

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