Ready to launch. Lauren Olsen (left to right) consults with co-cox Bill Mahoney as fellow cox trainees Jodi Stone and Dylan Rauch look on during the club's 2026 coxswains training program. Already in sync. Coxswain trainees Ashley Mackenzie (left to right) and Andrew Rauch with co-cox Kathy Woods-Smith in seat 2 and new coxswain Mark Ehrhardt in seat 1. What ferry wash? Mark's looking pretty chill here taking his crew through the ferry wash for the first time. Kathleen Sail

For a wintertime project, I was going through boxes of memorabilia, and found some old newspaper writeups of our club. I thought others might be interested in past articles and pictures of us in The Leader and the Peninsula Daily News. August 31, 2005. The Port Townsend Leader. Article about Port Townsend rowers returning the historic Hoh to the Pocock Rowing Foundation. Video of the ceremony was recently shown at Roger’s 90th birthday party. July 16, 2008.  Supplement to the

If a picture is worth a thousand words then nothing more needs to be said. However, the celebration of Roger's 90th birthday at the NWMC boathouse on October 11, 2025 was a marquee event that merits a description for RIRSC archives (for the record, Roger's actual birthday was October 26th). With a multitude of ideas and plans from mastermind Ted for celebrating Roger, and a village of volunteers to make it all happen, it was indeed the best 90th birthday party the rowing club

Hi, I'm Oct, short for Octuple. I'm 62 feet of gleaming Western Red Cedar. I was born in 1976. You may have rowed me on a Thursday morning this summer. But, as they say, it had been a minute since I had traveled out of Port Townsend. Well, since 2014 to be exact. I remember my first two glorious road trips with the club that year, first as my Oct self to Portland's Ross Island. "The Oct won first overall and first in its class, beating Portland's Oct," recalled Kathleen Saile