What a big weekend of rowing at Lake Wendouree in Ballarat for the 2024 Rowing Victoria State Championships. Beautiful weather on day 1 got things off to a great start! Tune in to hear Alan from Rowing Regatta Form Guides and Chat and Binky Kfouri, our very own "Rowing Tragic" give us the Goss on the racing from the weekend! Not to mention, some possibly concerning news re the Barwon River only 11 days out from racing for the 2024 Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta. Also, be sure to tune in on Thursday the 14th March when The Coxswains Journey and RowMann Repairs proudly present our fist Facebook ..read more

Join me live from the "cockpit" for this MM8+ race (MM8+ is Masters 8's, and the + is the coxswain), we raced 2 Melbourne Rowing Club Crews in a tight battle with one of them. The recording is on from pushing off the staging, but if you want to shortcut, we move to the start at 16.30, the race start is 18.10, and race finish is at 22.15. So tune in to hear the action from the Coxswains seat. Great to listen to as you doze off at night ..read more

What a weekend! 3 big regattas in Victoria, the crowd favorite; Australian Henley; and in my view one of the big three for school rowing (HoY, HoSG/ HoR and the Australian Henley). Not only that, we had the 2024 RV Junior Girls State Championship Regatta and to finish it off on Sunday was the 2024 BAS Head of the Lake. We are very fortunate to not only have Alan Crutes expertise covering these events but also Binky Kfouri's insightful input. The exposure that Alan has given Head of the Lake has made me tune in, this really is an impressive event! Its like combining Head of the river (boys) wit ..read more

Well this one didn't go right to plan, Alan, Binky and myself did a fantastic Regatta Review, we covered all bases, gave some great insights from the course and of course all our other great content! That was until some clown realised he hadn't pressed the record button! Yes, that would have been me. At 50 mins in we were winding up the podcast I had noticed the little "recording" image in the top left hand corner wasn't actually on. What a goose! Anyway, Alan and Binky saw the funny side and we launched straight into doing it all again. This time a lot shorter! So enjoy tonight's Regatta Revi ..read more

When a visionary and sport collide we often see great change in the winds! I feel we are on the precipice of that happening right now; vision, passion and motivation have all come together. In this "Casual Convo" I am fortunate enough to be joined by the Honorable Mr Patrick McNamara AM to discuss the Nagambie Gold events at this weekends Nagambie Regatta. This event injects unprecedented prize money into the sport of rowing like has never been seen before globally! The concept is brilliant and because of this vision we will get to see not only some of Australia's best rowers, but the words be ..read more

A big weekend in rowing both on the Barwon in Geelong; where the Junior and Intermediate girls had a hit out at the RV Firbank Regatta; but also in NSW at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith for the NSW State Championships. Alan from Rowing Regatta Form Guides and Chat and I are thrilled to be joined by a special guest tonight; A true "Rowing Tragic"; Binky Kfouri who brings not only an insiders view of rowing as a previous rower herself but very much involved for many years as a parent of two rowers. I hope to have many more episodes gleaning her wisdom! So be sure to tune in ..read more

In this exciting "Casual Convo" we have a great chat with Mario Laing rfom Lake Eildon Rowing Club, the newest Rowing Club in the country! What an exciting journey he has been on as he embraced his amazing location and encompassed his love for rowing into that space. Tune in to hear Mario's story, his motivation, and how it all came about. We don't often get the chance to talk to people who are as passionate about their rowing and sport as Mario. As I say at the end of the episode, if only more people in the world were like Mario and made things happen! Great Job Mario ..read more

The conditions could not have been better at Lake Wendouree on Saturday for the Ballarat JG King Homes Regatta. The weeks Regatta Review covers the racing from Saturdays racing action and gives us a good look into the season ahead. Of course Alan from Rowing Regatta Form Guides and Chat doesn't miss a beat covering all the action from the schoolgirls racing and gives us some great insights from last Saturday and what we can expect from the season ahead ..read more

Welcome to one of my recordings of the Hawthorn Rowing Clubs Female Masters Quads, first and final at the 2024 Barwon Regatta. There's a few takeaways from this recording; firstly these guys were a good crew, and we won this comfortably, so it made keeping the crew motivated and racing more challenging as they were competing with themselves for the most part. So why not back away and take it easy? well I brought them back a little, only enough to reduce risk of errors, but not enough to stop them working; never forget, anything can happen so always treat it as a race and always race hard. The ..read more

The Season kicked off in earnest last weekend with the 2024 Barwon Regatta, from Geelong, a certain favorite for all rowers and spectators alike. Saturday was dominated by the school rowers and Sunday saw the clubs and Masters all having a paddle. Tune into this weeks Regatta Review where Alan Crute from Rowing Regatta Form Guides and Chat fills us in on all the Schoolgirls rowing action from that banks of the mighty Barwon River on Saturday ..read more