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Body of Water - Chapter Eight: Collaboration

March 30, 2020

Chapter Eight of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Body of Water - Chapter Seven: Good Cop, Bad Cop?

March 9, 2020

Chapter Seven of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Body of Water - Chapter Six: Sins of the Father

February 10, 2020

Chapter Six of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Lessons from Rowing: Take Responsibility for Sharing Leadership

January 30, 2020

An excerpt from Adam Kreek's book 'The Responsibility Ethic,' on strategies exceptional people use to do the work and make success happen. more

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Body of Water - Chapter Five: No Good Deed

January 27, 2020

Chapter Five of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Body of Water - Chapter Four: The Living and the Dead

January 6, 2020

Chapter Four of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Body of Water - Chapter Three: The Lay of the Land

December 15, 2019

Chapter Three of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Body of Water - Chapter Two: Rules of the River

November 25, 2019

Chapter Two of the new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne; read Chapter One here more

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Body of Water - Chapter One

November 5, 2019

The opening chapter of a new rowing mystery from Dan Boyne more

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Intro and Foreword to Dan Boyne's new book The Seven Seat

September 11, 2019

Dan Boyne's Introduction and Ed Hewitt's Foreward to Boyne's latest book, The Seven Seat more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Eighteen: A Good Victory Lasts Forever

June 13, 2018

The final chapter of Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge' more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Seventeen: The City of Brotherly Love

June 7, 2018

As we crossed over the Girard Bridge, we got a quick bird's eye view of the historic Schuylkill waterway, the one we'd soon be racing on. more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Sixteen: The Winds of Waramaug

May 12, 2018

Every waterway has its own character, but lakes are notably different from rivers. They can be bucolic and still in the early hours of the morning, but quite dangerous later in the day if the wind rises. And this is exactly what happened that afternoon on Lake Waramaug. more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Fifteen: Culture Clash at Columbia

April 26, 2018

We'd come off the line at a 42 and settled (if you wanted to call it that) to a 38. We were out ahead of Columbia by a length, but it wasn't pretty. We were rowing scared - not entirely a surprise after our unsettling warm-up on the Harlem River. more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Fourteen: The Stern Pair

April 11, 2018

In crew, you often become closest to the guys you sit immediately beside, and Peter Tyson and I were no exception. We generally got along well - except when it came to the question of stroke ratings. more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Thirteen: Close Call at Coast Guard

March 15, 2018

Trinity was going to head-to-head with archrival Coast Guard - but I was going toe-to-toe with Michael Caluso, the bully who made my life miserable in high school more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Twelve: The Ghost Boat

February 22, 2018

I woke up, feverish and sweaty, exhausted from the nightmare of an imagined race. Suddenly I heard the knocking from my dream again... more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Eleven: Dress Rehearsal

February 12, 2018

Sometimes there is only one remedy for tragedy, and that is comedy. more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Ten: Boys to Men

January 26, 2018

March is the cruelest month, for those who row more

Dan Boyne's 'The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Redemption, and Revenge'
Chapter Nine: Musical Chairs

December 13, 2017

It is perhaps more of an art form than a science to find the right combination of oarsmen in a crew to make a boat go well; or... "You can tell a crew has really figured things out when they learn not to follow the stroke." - Peter Haining more