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.

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 ...

The racing shells his team used were the same as every university rowing team on the West Coast, and most on the East Coast, had used for decades: long, thin slips of cedar designed and built by ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN — Mike Vespoli has been either rowing or building racing shells — those sleek, missile-like boats that oarsmen and women propel for recreation and glory — for 52 of his 69 years. He was a ...

EVERETT — In the spring and early summer, John Tytus and his crew were praying for the return of college football. Tytus, the owner of Pocock Racing Shells, is a gridiron fan, for sure. But Pocock’s ...