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 Sailer, who coxed. She...

To fully appreciate what the club just pulled off on its first* rowing field trip to Quilcene, you have to consider the timeline. The night of Oct. 13, Dave Winters came out of the monthly board meeting and starting emailing members about the idea. Just 8 days later, at 8am on Oct. 21, 2025, some 18 excited rowers were arriving at the boathouse to make it happen. Of course Sally Giesler had arrived early to keep us all perfectly on track. By 8:27am, in record time, the trailer was loaded and...

Some of our most daring club members braved a bad forecast and headed off to participate in the first-ever Port Angeles Coastal Regatta Endurance race on Oct. 19, 2025. It wasn't dull. The word of the day was "intrepid." "All the common weather and wind conditions, except fog, happened during the approximately 7-mile long course race between Hollywood Beach and Ediz Hook," said Kathy Woods-Smith, who coxed the only club quad in the race. Course map from the Quad Some 22 rowers competed in 12...