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SPS Family Symposium

Saturday’s Seattle Public Schools FAMILY SYMPOSIUM and RESOURCE FAIR provided OAR Northwest and opportunity to debut school program offerings, staff introductions and inquiring conversations with students and family members.   After the vessel was settled into the front yard of the Garfield High School, Rick Tarbill and OAR Northwest Expedition Member hosted visitors aboard to view […]

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Thank you! We Raised the Roof at The Atlantic Crossing.

Ocean Rowers Celebrate Reunion At The Atlantic Crossing! C.U. Next Year…First Thursday After Labor Day. Wow!  The evening was filled with grand memories of a Guinness World Record made, a wonderful host where dear friends reconnected, and the creation of a new annual event to celebrate educational expeditions. The raffle list grew and grew and […]

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Fun and Fundraising at the Atlantic Crossing

Join six ocean rowers at OAR Northwest’s favorite expedition staging grounds, Seattle’s own Atlantic Crossing: Jordan Hanssen, Adam Kreek, Dylan LeValley, Greg Spooner, Richard Tarbill, and Brad Vickers.   If one is ten times more likely to meet someone who has climbed Mount Everest than an ocean rower, your probability figures will rock the charts […]

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Rowing from Victoria to Port Angeles: Not Quite

Adam Kreek here. Yesterday, I woke up at 4 am to go on an adventure with a bunch of my friends at the Whitehall Spirit Rowing Club. We have white, slide seat rowing boats that have a copolymer thermoformed plastic hull made to look like the old whitehall boats rowed on the river Thames in […]

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Ocean Rowboat Flip Test: SUCCESS!

By Greg Spooner If you picked up the Seattle Times today, or checked out the online article, you saw some GREAT photos taken from our flip testing, taken Friday last Friday in Puget Sound, just off Ballard’s Golden Gardens park. There, we finally got all the guys back together in one place again (no, weekly […]