Congrats to Coach O'Brien!

Coach O'Brien is the navigator on Triple Lindy, a Swan 44. The crew just won their division in the esteemed Rolex Middle Sea Race in the Mediterranean Sea. This year's race had conditions that were called "gnarly" by one website and on the Triple Lindy team blog the crew reported "dropping off a 30 foot wave."

Triple Lindy, with a dark blue hull and carbon sails, nailed the leeward end of the start for her class, shown at 2:14 in this video and at 0:28 in this one, and then went on to defeat 21 other IRC Class 5 yachts. She finished 10th overall of 70 starters in (ORC - Offshore Racing Congress) and 13th overall of 91 starters (in IRC.).
 

 Since the owner is retiring this boat, it was the last race for the boat with this crew.

The picture below show Triple Lindy entering Malta Harbor five minutes from the finish. Coach O'Brien is on the rail wearing the yellow trous.

Here is the link to the team blog. Congrats to the whole crew!

Congrats to Mrs Schoening!

BSCHS can now boast about having another US Rowing referee associated with our program. Congrats to Fran Schoening for successful completion of Assistant Referee qualifications.

For more info on getting the best seat on the racecourse, see this from US Rowing.

Coach O'Brien in referee mode

8th LTR on the 30th

We had another nice day with the novices. Coach O'Brien is grateful for the assistance of some varsity members in getting the novices to feel comfortable.

Some more pics:

I hope to see many at Thursday night's pre-season meeting.

Seventh LTR session on the 23rd

Our seventh Learn To Row session was held on Saturday September 23rd with quite a turnout. We were able to launch and row an 8+ and a 4+,  thanks to help from some varsity members: in the 4+ was Clare stroke, Delaney 2 and  Nicole bow, together with Ashley, a St Greg's 8th grader in the three seat. With help from Clare,  Enzo (Bobby's brother and also an 8th grader from St Greg's) served as cox.

In the 8+ for the first part of the session, we had Nina coxing, Charlie in stroke and Bobby in bow.  The middle six were novices Jo Marie 2, Nolan 3, TJ (Thomas) 4, Mia 5, Ray 6,  and Austin 7 . For the second half of the water time Nicolas was switched into bow and Ricardo into 7.

The session was kicked off with technique review on land on erg's and then we did review of sweep rowing technique on dock, and then got on the water.  

Coach O'Brien was very pleased with everyone's enthusiasm and noted our novices are picking up rowing very quickly.


Again thanks to all the parents who stayed and to John Laing for the pictures. Keep 'em coming!