When pancreatic cancer claimed Mel Nash earlier this year, the rowing community was devastated. “A huge, huge blow,” said Faith Hazeltine of the Straits of Mare Island Rowing Club. It’s Hazeltine who ...

NEW BEDFORD – The International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta Cups are on their way to the Azores as the Pico rowing and sailing teams won both the male and female races. Although Team USA was once again ...

Faith Hazeltine has been a whaleboat rower for 17 years. And she doesn’t know how to swim. Talk about faith. “I can’t get away from it. Every time I try to leave, I go back to it,” Hazeltine said, ...

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The annual Independence Day Whaleboat Races bring more than 100 rowers to New Bedford Harbor to compete for the championship. The races, organized by Whaling City Rowing (WCR), will run on Saturday, 9 ...

Whaleboat races in New Bedford Harbor date to before the Civil War. They once crowned the city's Fourth of July celebrations. However, as whaling waned, so did the races. In 1929, they returned as ...

A replica whaleboat belonging to Ross McPhail from Norfolk Island, north-east of Sydney, has turned up on a Townsville beach in north Queensland, months after the vessel was thought to be lost at sea.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LITTLE WHALEBOAT ISLAND — From a rocky beach on the north shore of this ...