BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – For years, the Quinault cut through the waters of Puget Sound, a training platform for young rowers with a championship story to tell. The 62-foot wooden rowing shell has the scars ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rat Island Rowing Club is restoring a 62-foot-long wooden classic racing shell and is using an Internet crowdfunding site to raise money to preserve a piece of maritime history.

When it comes to the rowing, a wood boat is heavier and more cumbersome, and thus more difficult to propel through the water. But when it comes to the history, it doesn’t get much better than being in ...

The weather was raw and wet on Saturday morning but the atmosphere was warm as the University of Washington took possession of a racing shell decorated with Olympic rings and the drawing of a gold ...

The old wooden rowing shell that hangs in the University of Washington crew team’s dining hall doesn’t look all that remarkable. You see boats like it in many nautical-themed restaurants. But this ...

Instead, their father, Arthur Martin, took them out in newfangled fiberglass kayaks he designed and built himself. It was the early 1950s, when the only kayaks most people had seen were those paddled ...

The 98-year-old man leaned forward in his wheelchair and slowly poured a glass of champagne onto the hull of the newest Bates rowing shell. In a soft but steady voice, he said, “I christen thee Ralph ...

Asheville has long been in the spotlight as a top spot for such outdoor activities as trail-running, mountain-biking and kayaking. But whoever heard of rowing here? And no, this isn’t going out with ...