1 March 2023

Rowing The World announced yesterday that among the 2023 rowing trips is a trip to Stockholm and its beautiful Archipelago.

Founder and President of Rowing The World, Ruth Marr, writes in a press release that she is thrilled to announce Rowing The World’s trip in Sweden. The trip is between 26 June and 4 July. Read more about the trip on the following link: Stockholm & its Archipelago.

You will find the rest of the 2023 trips on the following link: 2023 tour line up (there may yet be some more trips added).

“This is the year to do a rowing trip. We will be making changes for 2024. A destination that you are dreaming about may not be offered next year. Don’t miss the boat! Time to review the options,” Marr writes. “You can still join us for what will be a spectacular trip to the Bay of Naples & Amalfi Coast in late April. There are also the two rowing wellness retreats in Italy, at Cannero on Lago Maggiore in June and Bellagio on Lago di Como in October. Here is a handy guide on choosing between them. Our Vogalonga weekend has been booked solid for a long time. We have now opened up the waiting list for 2024.”

Here are some other rowing trips that Rowing The World offers during the year: Greece: Norther Beach Paradise in September. (…) We are happy to tell you that all our partners and friends there are safe and we are still offering Turkey: South Aegean & Istanbul trip in October. (…) Four seats remain available on the Split & the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia, where we will be running this year’s Women’s Only Tour. (…) Two superb destinations in Canada. In June, Rowing in La Belle Province, rowing in Montreal & Eastern Townships. Two dates are open for our amazing BC Wilderness tour, one in August and another in September.

Ruth Marr writes: “Last week I was interviewed by Marlene Royle of Faster Masters. Marlene created a tour rowing training program, available online. In the interview we talked about the trips and why you need to train, and how both the training and a rowing trip can make you race faster. There are more training suggestions on the Top 10 Resources for Masters Rowers on the NK Sports blog, plus my thoughts on the best camps, books, social media and more.”

Marr also mentions an article from 30 January 2023 posted on the website L’Abeille Française, written by “Frances”, who had been on a Rowing The World tour to Henley last summer. The article on Henley-on-Thames have beautiful photographs from the town, but also from Leander Club and the River & Rowing Museum.*

*HTBS Editor’s Note: Among the photographs from the River & Rowing Museum is one showing a sign, “New World Pioneers”, about professional sculling – the so-called Hop Bitters race in October 1879 between American sculler Charles Courtney and Canadian Ned Hanlan. On the day of the race, Courtney woke up finding his two single sculls being sawed in half. The American refused to race in another shell, so Hanlan rowed over the course himself expecting to win the $6,000 prize. It says on the sign that Hanlan was awarded the prize money. He was not. Asa Soule, head of the Hop Bitters Company, refused to pay as it had not been a two-man race. See William Lanouette’s 2021 book The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of the Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age, pp. 151-153.