In this Newsletter
Thank You!
Fall Programs!
Leaderboard Results - Congrats!
Hatchets Hat-Trick Weekend Recap
Our Weekly Focuses
2024 Photos - Checkout so many pics from this season
Thank you!
Thank you for an AMAZING summer. This is Hatchets’ 16TH summer operating, Jeremy’s 32nd year rowing and coaching and Kathy’s 30th year rowing and coaching! Without EACH OF YOU, we would not be here. We are very thankful to have so many enjoying this wonderful sport and way of life with us. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU!
Fall Programs
We will have an end of summer break with no rowing sessions from August 24th - September 2nd. Rowing will start up again on September 3rd until October 9th before we stop for the season. Rowing sessions will be combined program sessions. In other words, Fitness Rowers, Competitive Rowers and Junior Scullers will all be rowing together. We will base the rowing and distances on the rowers attending! The sessions will be:
Fall Rowing Sept 3 - Oct 9th
Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:30-9:30am
Mondays, 4:30-5:30pm
Please let us know which sessions you’d like to attend. As usual, you can let us know by email (info@hatchetsrowing.com), text or phone (705.765.1939)!
Hatchets Leaderboard Results
Our LeaderBoard Final Results!
Checkout our final results from our Leaderboard. First place went to Teresa - Teresa purchased a Mission Offshore 16 from us this year. She had another rowing shell, but this boat was to replace hers and add some speed and technical challenge. She has rowed an outstanding 512.1km in only 8 weeks! That is 64km a week - no small feat! Congratulations Teresa!
Peter Roy led the rest of us with just over 250km, closely followed by Kathy and Laurie. Congratulations to everyone recording their kms this year. It has been a really great summer!
Just like our distance challenge, we had one leader well out front. Grant Evans came to do some rowing with us and was in a racing shell by his last row. He is a competitive swimmer and when I mentioned the chinup challenge, he promptly went and hammered off 20. I thought it looked quite effortless, but the next time he was in he declined trying to beat his record:) Congratulations Grant!
For the fish game, Robin led the pack with a score of 2145, with Gavin and Oliver not far behind. Congratulations Robin!
Teresa in her Mission Offshore 16 near the beginning of the summer!
This Year’s Hatchets Hat Trick Weekend
Though there was a fair share of wind and rain this year - all of our weekend events went ahead and we couldn’t be more pleased with how smoothly things went and how much fun everyone had, us included! Click on each event to see some great pictures taken during the event!
Muskoka Poker Run
This year, we decided that we would choose the Mission 20/20s to complete the Poker Run. These boats are intended for open water and can handle wind and waves very well. The forecast was calling for some west winds, and since we were travelling down the east side of Lake Muskoka….it felt like the right choice. We were lucky enough to be meet up with one of our fellow rowers, Bill, along the way, and make a pit stop at his place on Tondern Island! Though we had some rain on and off, we had lots of time without rain, and some INCREDIBLE rainbows as you’ll see in the photos! Thanks to Lily and Michael for keeping an eye out for us in the safety boat!
Indian River Relay
This year we had 4 teams of four rowers competing for their hand prints to be painted on the floor. Prior to the event, we transitioned the handprints from outside on the dock, to inside on the floor. We felt it would require less up keep and would let us admire them up close more easily without fading or peeling. Checkout the handiwork and the pictures of the event. Thanks so much to Ashley and John for taking all the great pictures!
Congratulations to this year’s winners! Ben Veitch, Aria Blix, Lily Baker and Robin Fowler. They held it together and came into the dock after all four rowers with the fastest time of the day!
This year's winning Indian River Relay Team. From L-R: Robin Fowler, Lily Baker, Ben Veitch, Aria Blix
Maneuvering in the Port Carling Locks
This year we had a great group out for our Row to Windermere! Our lunch stop was at David and Donna’s cottage on Tobins Island. Thank you to both of you, and your family, for hosting! The timing of a large portion of the rain couldn’t have been better coordinated with the lunch stop. We were so lucky to be joined by some rowers that were new to Hatchets, as well as some rowers that we haven’t had with us for a number of years. Paige rowed and coached with us when our daughter, Robin, now 13, was just born. Paige now lives in Scotland, but her partner Scott and she were visiting family in Utterson and so we were so lucky to be joined by Paige and Scott, as well as by Jodi and Jeff (Paige’s parents), who provided and drove our wonderful safety boat - thank you Jeff and Jodi!!! We were also joined by Penny, Faye and Mel - rowers from the Niagara area who were visiting from out of town. As well as our visitors, we had Lily, Michael, Sheila, David, Robin, Gavin, Jeremy and I (Kathy) rowing. What a great day. The strong West winds persuaded us to stick to the east side of the island on the way up to David’s, as well as on the way back. Scott has actually never rowed before, and so despite all of our “don’t let family learn to row in the same boat or teach each other to row” experience, we sent Scott in a double with Paige after lunch to learn, both in the same boat as, and from, his partner. But they proved us wrong and looked great in the double together. All in all we had a great day, and thanks to Scott, Michael and Gavin for all the great photography!
David in the locks after completing the row across Rosseau in the Offshore 21.
Setting out across Lake Rosseau.
Hatchets Weekly Focuses!
Here are our focuses from weeks 6/7 and from week 8! Enjoy the read through these white boards pictures if you didn’t get a chance to look at them through the season. We’ll be revisiting again next season!
2024 Pictures
We’ve posted lots of fun and beautiful pictures of YOU rowing with us! Though we didn’t capture everyone, we sure did get a lot of great shots of our rowers and our lovely waterway this year.
