GGVII

Hooch Pirates back at it again!
Jenny, Shelly, Cassi & Suzanna joined up in Chicago at the Gay Games to win gold in the Master's Women's 4+! Woohoo! See official results here. We also won gold in the Master's Women's 8+ where we are listed as the "composite" crew. We placed 2nd in the race, but Mendota was disqualified for not registering. We rowed with a fantastic rower named Renee, from Chicago, in our 4+ and with women from Boston, Alaska & Chicago in the 8+. Cassi also rowed in a mixed 8+ at the end of the day and got a bronze medal.

Thanks to Suzanna for agreeing to cox us instead of row in the 4+, Beth for watching our stuff and being a great spectator, Renee for being an awesome bow-port-rower, the San Diego boys for being so adorably awesome in their new sweep rowing abilities and to all the supporters we had on the shore during our races!!

Where will we go next? Who knows?

next practice

today, wednesday. 6:30pm. ARC boathouse.
cassi, shelly, jenny, catherine & sarah.

dinner afterwards?

our next adventure!

The next adventure for the Hooch Pirates is the Gay Games! They are being held in Chicago July 15th-22nd. We are planning on racing a four with Shelly, Jenny, Suzanna & Cassi. We're going back to our roots with the original four.

Stay tuned for practice updates and more information.

First practice (for Shelly, Jenny & Cassi) is on Saturday - June 10th, 2006 at 7am at ARC with Beth Lasher subbing for Suzanna and hopefully a coxswain will join us. We're hoping Suzanna is at least dreaming about rowing so that she's ready to kick some ass in Chicago.

Shelly will be in charge of organizing our weekly rows, so look for more news from her.

In other news... Aimee's getting ready to leave for Henley and then she got her ass in such a pucker she could hardly stand it!! (ha ha. she said it.) Anyways, the draw was posted the other night and it looks like there are 7 boats in her event. They have a bye the first round, so at most will have only two races - semi's and a final. The other boats in our event are St. Joseph's - who just won Dad Vails, and Villanova A & B, who also just took 2nd behind St. Joe's at Dad Vails (although, their JV - assuming that's their B boat - got knocked out in the heat). As well, there is a Dutch boat that is comprised of the Dutch national team. Holy shnikey's!! She thinks they are going to have some tough competition... so keep us updated Aimee. You're gonna kick some ass on the other side of the pond - we can just feel it.

Ree has taken up ultimate again for the summer but is still rowing and will be subbing in the GG4 for our practices. Beth bought a house and disappeared into it. Perhaps we will see her again one day? Then there is Schwegs... lost in Boston somewhere we assume.

arrr, mateys... i'll be seein ya on the water.
- iron maiden

do you have a band-aid?

cuz we're CUT!

this is a test

i'm sending this email to aimee so she can keep us updated on the blog about her seat racing in seattle! go aimee!!! henley!!! unleash your inner pirate! so her updates may come up as posted by me, but they're really aimee.

shit storm's comin'

Literally, Cassi's psychic abilities are indicating a shit storm for tomorrow's row.

Phone tree anyone?

rowing again.

saturday & sunday. 9am. who's in?