Category Archives: Rowing

For the past several years, I have been coxing men’s boats in the annual Head of the Charles Regatta (HOCR), held every October on Boston’s Charles River.

This year, the men’s team I usually cox wasn’t coming together for the race, but I knew it was HOCR’s 50th anniversary, and I didn’t want to miss the chance to be part of the race. Plus, Boston in October can be beautiful—and there is no event in rowing that is quite like this. Continue reading →

This weekend marked the end of the 2011 rowing season—and after working all day Saturday catering an event for one of my favorite clients, I was up early on a very cold November Sunday morning to cox the Pocock Rowing Center men’s 8+ to our third-consecutive win in the masters men’s event. (That’s us above on the left, in green. We passed the boat on the right a couple of minutes later.) Continue reading →