Hello Everyone & Happy New Year!

 

I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of a great opportunity...

 

WinTech Racing's 2005 Coxswains' Clinic, hosted by Temple & Stetson Universities will be held on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at The Florida Mall Hotel (formerly The Adam's Mark) in Orlando, FL.  We will have an all-star line-up of speakers:

 

Mike Teti - Head Coach of the US Men's National Team

Pete Cipollone - Men's National Team 8+ Coxswain; 2004 Olympic Gold medalist

Joey Hansen - Men's National Team Oarsman (8+); 2004 Olympic Gold medalist

Yasmin Farooq - Former Women's National Team Coxswain; World Champion; NBC Rowing Commentator 2004 Olympics

Marcus McElhenney - Men's National Team Coxswain; World Champion

 

They will be discussing many of the aspects of being a coxswain, including: safety, steering, communication with coaches & athletes, racing, and much more!

 

Attached is all the information that you'll need (registration form & information page), or you can visit the WinTech web-site at: www.wintechracing.com  

 

This seminar is open to everyone - collegiate coxswains, scholastic coxswains, coaches, rowers - anyone who wants to learn from the best, have a little fun, or just to have the opportunity to hear these superstars of rowing.  The cost of the clinic is $75.

 

We will also be holding a raffle.  We will have 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners, and the grand prize will be a new cox box!  Raffle tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10!

 

We hope to see you there!

 

Chris Deatrick

Director of Rowing

Stetson University

cdeatric@...

Anybody interested in tackling this please reply directly to
MargotZalkind@....

-----Original Message-----
From: MargotZalkind@... [mailto:MargotZalkind@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:32 PM
To: rowingmasters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [rowingmasters] question from a club:

1.  Do most clubs have a letter of agreement or contract with their coaches?

We have a concern about a coach who alienates certain master and junior
rowers....and will limit or exclude them from races and fair coaching.
These are
not slouches but very hard workers in the gym, on the water and with club
committments. The coach may not like them for one reason or another and
simply
ignore them.  This does not follow our mission statement.

This a very capable racing coach who delivers fast boats but ..... at what
cost? Your thoughts?

2. What are coaches being paid these days? And how, by the season? by the
hour? by the year?

Dear Coaches I would like to inform you about Winter Sprints -
February 27, 2005. Coaches\ Coxswain meeting will be on Sunday,
February 27th at 7 Am.
Entries Must be received Friday, February 11, 2005

P.S All Regatta information is at www.rowmiamibeach.com
Thank you
Coach Boban
#305-861-8876

-----Original Message-----
From: AUGUSTINS@... [mailto:AUGUSTINS@...]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:23 AM
To: Brice.Crossley-1@...
Subject: FSRA website

Hi Brice,

 

Not sure if you're the right one to address this, but, I just received an email from you so I thought I'd start with you!

 

I tried to access the FSRA website yesterday and today, and got the response "the domain has been suspended" -- are you aware of the situation?

 

Thanks.  Let me know if there is anything I can do for FSRA.

 

Maria Augustin

Vice President, Power Ten Rowing Club (Bishop Moore Crew)

The Bolles School in Jacksonville, FL has an immediate opening for an
assistant boys rowing coach. Bolles is a nationally renowned private school
with a rapidly growing high school rowing program.

Our spring season begins on January 25 and runs until the end of April.
Practices are Monday - Friday from 4:15 - 6:15, and Saturday mornings from
8:00 - 11:00. We also have opportunities to coach adults and summer rowing
camps.

Please send your resume and coaching experience via email to
riedeburgt@... or call 904-256-5082 to set up an appointment.

Maclay School is holding it's 4th Ergomania on Saturday, January 29th,
utilizing E-row system from Concept to link 10 model C's with a video
display as used in CRASH-B's and Southern Sprints. High school, collegiate,
and masters events.

Information and entry packet available at:
http://www.maclaycrew.org/dailyannoouncments/Big%20Bend%20Ergomania%202005.pdf

Information:
Jane Bixler Conn 850 545-5738
                  fax  850 877-7992
jbixconn@...

Brian Sprague 850 591-0359
brianisacoxswain@...

Dear Coaches I would like to inform you about WinTech Racing Boats.
At this moment at the Miami Beach Rowing Center we have 12 different
boats from WinTech as a Demo.
If you are interested in trying them you can Call at # 305 710 0301
At this moment we have 8+, 4+, 4-, 2x, 2-, 1x in all different sizes
Coach Boban
Thank you

E-mail boban_rankovic@...
        # Cell 305 710 0301
        Office 305 861 8876

Please reply directly to Dan at kempinger@...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Kempinger [mailto:kempinger@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:30 PM
To: Brice.Crossley-1@...
Subject: RE: [FSRA] Floridarowing.org back online

Brice-  Can you send this out to the group?

University School is looking for a dual/tri race on April 2nd.  We are a new

program in Fort Lauderdale and only have novice rowers.  We would be willing

to travel, but are interested in locking down an annual race.  Contact Dan
Kempinger with any questions: kempinger@...

Thanks.
Dan

Please reply directly to Marty at martycrotty@...

-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Crotty [mailto:martycrotty@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:41 PM
To: bricecrossley@...
Cc: dsnewman99@...
Subject: RE: Junior National Team ID Camp -- Tallahassee 2/27

What:  Junior National Team ID Camp II
When:  Sunday, February 27, 2005
        10am - 3pm
Where: Tallahassee, Florida
        Leon High School
What:  2k erg for score
        Two rowing sessions, + lunch
Fee:   $20  (all checks made out to NRF)

**All rowers must be members of USRowing for insurance purposes.

For more information please contact Head Coach Marty Crotty at
martycrotty@....  You MUST PREREGISTER for the camp by
sending Marty

Rower name
Rower school/DOB
Rower DOB
Rower email
Rower address
Rower phone
Side rowed
Height
Weight
Coach name
Coach phone
Coach email

**if you participated in the Pinecrest ID Camp, you are welcome to come to
Tallahassee.  You must email Marty to preregister, but you need not send all
of the info requested above.

Marty Crotty
Executive Director, PIRA
609-799-7100
609-658-8239 cell

Take a tour!
www.princetonregatta.org

For those looking for some entertainment during social gatherings this
spring...

List of rowing scenes appearing in media, as suggested on RowingMasters
listserve.  In many instances, more information is available at
www.imdb.com.  This
list is by no means exhaustive, and accuracy is not guaranteed, but it's a
start!  Listed in order of production.

College, 1927.  A Buster Keaton movie in which a hapless Keaton tries to woo

the girl by being manly and sporting - fails terribly at track, then finds
his
niche as a coxswain for the college crew team. He doesn't "fix" the boat
during the critical race, but he does resort to drastic measures to stay on
course
. . . See this movie if you love rowing and if you love athleticism and
laughter - Keaton is an amazing athlete and physical comedian.

Eight Girls in a Boat, 1934.  About rowing -- featured women of the ZLAC
rowing club

Freshman Love, (also released under the name Rhythm on the River), 1936.  It

is similar to many college films of the era that carry the theme: Dimwitted
athletics vs nerdy academics. The twist is that this is Billings U., with a
rowing team that lacks any punch.

Olympia Part 2, A Festival of Beauty, 1938, directed by Leni Riefenstahl.

A Yank at Oxford (1938).  Lionel Barrymore in a tale of the crass American
who crosses the pond to save the day.

Blondie Goes to College, 1942.  When Dagwood decides to enroll in college,
Mr. Dithers suggests that Blondie join him. Funny situations don't stop
coming
as Blondie gets attention from the university's top athlete and Dagwood
joins
the rowing team and finds favor with a pretty coed. Arthur Lake, Penny
Singleton, Janet Blair and Larry Parks star. 68 min.

A Hard Day's Night, 1964.  Ringo along the shore during the "This Boy"
number, while a couple of scullers are off in the background.  Look hard for
the
sculler who has flipped.

Half a Sixpence, 1967.  Tommie Steele stars as a lower class bloke around
the
turn of the century who inherits a lot of money.  The stiffs then invite him

into their rowing circle.  For those rowers who think that life is just one
big musical, there is a Gilbert and Sullivanesque version of Henley not to
be
missed.

Thomas Crown Affair, 1968.  The original movie with Steve McQueen/Faye
Dunaway.  Rowing (all 3 seconds of it which took all day) done by Union Boat
Club-
so there is rowing outside of Philly! (sent by Monk Terry, who is also in
the
film)

The Way We Were, 1973. Barbra Streisand, a political activist, and Robert
Redford, in the military, meet several times starting in college and form an

unlikely relationship which is disapproved of by each of their peers.  Has
rowing,
and is good for nostalgia.

Oxford Blue, 1984.  Rob Lowe in a film that purports to show that you don't
need to do maintenance on the boats, since you can fix your boat during a
race
and still win.  For you purists, boat burning takes place only after eights,

not after ad hoc coxless pairs grudge matches against Harvard.  Update of a
Yank at Oxford.

Hey Babu Riba, 1986.   Made in the former Yugoslavia, a coming-of-age story
of five close friends - four teenage boys and their female coxswain.
Subtitles.

Amazing Grace and Chuck, 1987.  Has a little rowing, a nice view of the
Weeks
Footbridge on the Charles and references to crew (as well as the annoying
coxswain supposedly saying "stroke", but is also just a great schmaltzy
movie
with Jamie Lee Curtis.

Boy in Blue, 1987.   Nicholas Cage is the 1880's champ Ned Hanlan back when
rowing was as popular as football is in the US and soccer is in the rest of
the
world.  High stakes with lots of money changing hands.

Indochine, 1992.  Some rowing footage and is a beautiful movie.  Has
subtitles though.

Philadelphia, 1993.  Subtle references to Tom Hanks' character having rowed.

When they show the interior of his loft, he has an oar hanging up, and some
photos of boats scattered around.

The River Wild, 1994.  Starring Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep.  Meryl
indoctrinates the peaceful climate of the early portion of the film with a
competent
Charles River practice. It lasts for about 2 minutes, it seemed.  The camera

work is well done, and I was *very* impressed with the ability for Meryl to
actually row a King single for this part. I remember she was coached for
only
about 2-3 weeks before filming.  There are a couple of stunt doubles for
some
overheads, but overall it was a good addition.  Google search reveals she
donated
this single to the Yale Library for its Eakins exhibit. (from Coop)

Carrington, 1995.  Lansbury Rowing Club has their 15 minutes of fame
supporting Emma Thompson.

Kimberly  (1995?) Film about four rowers and their cox, shot in
Philadelphia.
lots of rowing including scenes with Ted Nash and national team rowers.

Rowing Through, 1996.  Look for cameo appearances by Tiff Wood, Joe
Bouscaren, John Biglow and Harry Parker.

True Blue, 1996.  Adaptation of the book of the same name about the 1987
Oxford Mutiny.

Enemy of the State, 1998.  Starring Will Smith, et. al.

Sliding Doors, 1998.  Stars Gwyneth Paltrow, who dates a rower.

Sixth Sense, 1999.  Bruce Willis' character is a rower and the opening pans
the apartment walls with rowing plaques and trophies.  Also, in one scene,
he
is sitting alone watching a video of his wedding.  That footage was shot on
the
deck of Undine.  Took three days, included filming footage of races, of all
things...typical Shyamalan...shoots the limit of footage and uses
little...always appears on the "making of..." in the DVD.

The Skulls, 2000. The film's premise is very loosely based on the Skull &
Bones fraternity at Yale University, which included screenwriter John Pogue,
as
well as George and George W. Bush, as members.  Stars Joshua Jackson and
Hill
Harper had never rowed before making this film, so they trained for several
weeks in order to perform the rowing scenes themselves"

Mona Lisa Smile, 2003.  Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is a
free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley
College,
a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores

of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.



Miracle at Oxford, 2004.  The incredible true story of how the Oxford
University rowing team overcame obstacles to win back its honor. When
Oxford's
accomplished rowing team loses its winning streak to arch-enemy Cambridge,
they
promise to come back the next year with a win, no matter what sacrifices
they have
to make. But with luck working against them, the struggles ahead could tear
the team apart.

The Notebook, 2004.  The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an
old woman in a nursing home.  Brief rowing scene.

From John Hogan:
And then there is the other category: best rowing scenes that never made it
past the film editor.
Late October 2003, when a film crew was in Philadelphia filming Nick Cage in

"National Treasure" they asked for rowing teams to be filmed. It was the
Friday of Head of the Charles so almost no body was in town but me and some
Temple
freshmen and their coach Tim Hagan.

Two Temple eights set up just above the dam. A specially adapted filming
helicopter zoomed down the river over the eights as they started to race up
the
river, The helicopter was so low to the water that it had to quickly rise to

avoid the dam safety cable. So low that its propellers stirred the water.

This happened twice. I had a fabulous viewing site from the dock of Undine
Barge Club. Couldn't wait to see the movie.  But the scenes were cut from
the
final edition.

Tim is trying to get a copy of the editor's cuts.

TV SHOWS

Longstreet, starring James Franciscus, 1971-1972. During the opening credits

he was rowing a single in NY during the winter before he lost his sight.

Spenser:  For Hire, 1985.  Starred Robert Urich.

Silken Lauman Story (1996).   Made for TV movie

Midsomer Murders "DEAD IN THE WATER", 1997.  A body is found in the River
Thames during the annual Midsomer Regatta: ladies' man Guy Sweetman appears
to
have been killed after arguing with his friends Philip Trent and John
Parkway
from the rowing club. When Barnaby & Scott dig into the luxury lifestyles of
the
members, they discover a network of money problems and sexual jealousy.  Sir

Steven Redgrave as "Scout."

Providence, 1999-2002.  Starred Melina Kanakaredes; had a single in their
opening credits.

Joan of Arcadia, 2003 --. My friend, Deanna, and I appear (very briefly) in
2
episodes.  The show's site location crew did some filming in Wilmington, DE,

and we had arranged to be on the water one morning.  We rowed up and down
the
beautiful Christina River until the helicopter showed up and hovered around
filming for a while.  We are "featured" in the episodes - "Drive, He Said"
and " Makeup Class".  (Patty, Wilmington Rowing Center)

Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel - The myth-busting duo attempted to
prove/disprove that a rowing shell could pull a water skier.  A men's
college
crew (after a few tries) proved that it could be done!

MISC.

Rowing to Latitude:  Journeys along the Arctic's Edge, by Jill Fredston.
Travel stories about kayaking and rowing around the arctic with her husband.

Great images.

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles.  A coming of age story at a boys' school
in New Hampshire, just before WWII.  Minor incident with the main character
at
the boathouse.  Still required reading in some freshman lit classes.

To all FSRA and Floridamasters:

Please note that the MIAMI BEACH WINTER SPRINTS will now be held on
SUNDAY, MARCH 6 2005. This change is due to the extended move-out
dates of the Miami Beach Boat Show, which is held on the same
waterway as our regatta.

Our race schedule will remain as published, THE deadline for entries
will be Feb 18. We apologize for any inconvenience this change may
cause and hope to see all of you in March.

Please contact Elaine Roden or Boban Rankovic at
miamibeachrowing@... for additional information.




Miami Beach Rowing Club
Shane Watersports Center
Elaine Roden
Elaine_mbrowing@...
tel: 305-861-8876
www.rowmiamibeach.com

Dear Brice:

We am selling the American Barge Club boat Trailer. It is in great condition and holds 9 boats. Ideal for a small program. We are asking 3,5000 dollars.

Aldo Berti

American Barge Club

University School is looking for a trailer to go to the novice regatta.  We
are taking two 8+s, 2 sets of blades, and slings.  If you have room on your
trailer, we will help defer any costs for the trip.  We are located in
Hollywood, and would need to be picked up on Friday.  We can leave any time
Friday.
Thanks for all of your help.

Dan Kempinger
University School
Head Rowing Coach
kempinger@...

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Coaches

Attached please find the packet for the 32nd Annual Miami International Regatta.
Good luck in your 2005 season!!!

Row Fast


Raul Arellano
Regatta Director

Please reply directly to Dave at crewman6_02@...


-----Original Message-----
From: Middleton David [mailto:crewman6_02@...]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:44 PM
To: Crossley, Brice A
Subject: FSRA: Boats for sale


Brice,

     Could you please post the following:
                                Thanks,
                     David Middleton Boone Crew

Boone Crew is looking to sell some boats with oars.

A heavyweight Mens 8 built by Dirigo asking for $4,000
and if you need a set of oars to go along with the
boat then the price is $4,500. Still in great
condition.

A heavyweight Mens 4 built by Dirigo asking for
$1,000. Need four oars to go with that $1,250

A Midweight Womans 8 built by Dirigo asking for
$2,000. A set of 8 oars can come with this boat for
only $2,500. Still in great condition.

A heavyweight Mens 8 built by Dirigo asking for $500
and we will throw in 8 oars to go along with that for
only $750.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact
David Middleton @ crewman6_02@..., or Brandon
Thompson @ thompsb3@....