Pretty early start for the US Lighweight Men's Quadruple Sculls, though not quite before sunrise.

Featuring Tobin "Quads" McGee. He can row port, he can row starboard, he can scull. Baby, he's amphibious (google Charles Shackleford).

Chris Rogers the man with the (race) plan. I still think he's Cameron Booth's clone.

Peter "I don't get yelled at anymore!" Schmidt. Not one of Lt. Schmidt's children, as far as I know. (You have to be of Soviet extraction to really understand that joke).

And Jake Georgeson, who's excitement of making his second national team may or may not pale in comparison to his beloved Cavs winning the NBA title.

With Judith Vogel at the megaphone.

Getting all the crests to be visible and lit up by the sun took half a practice. I am sure they were working hard, too.

Sitting ready

Cranking along

And now, racing into the sun.

USA! USA! USA! USA!

Most definitely not Kansas. Love that dirty water.

Fun with slow shutter speeds. Much easier to do when the launch is moving at the same exact speed.

Always helps to have a few friends along for the ride.

Maybe more than a few...

Obligatory blades shot.

The salad cart didn't make it into Saturday's meatwagon photo shoot.

Fortune favors the brave??

Tooling around the waterfront, and found this colorful bridge.

Hannah on a late evening row upstream.

Moon over Pierce, sunrise over the skyline.

Decent oar bend for this Newell pair.

Sky was starting to increasingly gray, so I almost went home, but decided to hang around for another 15 minutes. Totally worth it.

Dorian took a break from one oar on Saturday morning.

Spontaneously decided to ride along with Coach Jefe yesterday.

Practice started off with a bit of a repair job on Xavi's oarlock.

Shortly followed by a mid-row replacement of Eric's broken oar.

Followed up by Alex's shoe separating from the footstrechers.

Meanwhile, it was a party in the barge.

While Trey did a saintly job of ducking under the telephoto

Fortuntely, that didn't derail practice too much, and the meat wagons were trucking

Some with perhaps a bit more meat than others.

No shoe, no shirts, no problems.

At least these guys didn't have to steer.

He did, though.

All kinds of small boats.

Jack seems to still remember how to use two oars.

Nice uni.

Making lemonade.

Wasn't all smooth sailing, as previously noted.

But it all worked out in the end.

CBC (and friends) Olympic send off for Gevvie, Josh and Andrew.

Pretty sweet thunderstorm in the distance last night. It was pretty awesome to just hang out on Eliot and watch it with absolutely no chance of getting rained on, or getting fried.

Also congratulations to Newell TC's U23 4x, entirely populated with BU and Harvard oarsmen.

And CRI's US LM2-, Peter Gibson and Andrew Weiland. All in all, a great time to be on the Charles.

Just because you start rowing a beat up Hudson when you get to RBC, doesn't mean you are not going to Worlds. Well rowed, Emma, your US U23 LW1x!

And congrats to Vesper on The Charles' Mary Jones, the US LW1x, and part of our little training pod. :)

As well as CBC's Cecily Madden, also part of Team Gevvie. In case you missed it, the Charles is now home to the U23, U23 LW, Senior LW and Senior (aka Olympic) Women's singles. That's kind of awesome.

Congrats to the newly minted US LM4x!

And Ashley, the bow of the US LW4x!

The three scullers. (Alexis, Tina and Tom).

Some mountains (Rockies?) while flying over Montana on the way back from Portland.

Gregg heads in after a morning row.

Caution, sculler(Ilana) crossing.

Tom, laying fresh tracks down before sunrise.

Sir Paul does put on quite the show.

A CBC pair prowling the Eliot turn.

Clouds surging above Weeks

Best of luck to Tom and Russ at the Blackburn challenge this weekend.

Glass is forming under my wing