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 ...

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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 ...

This year's Independence Day Whaleboat Race drew enthusiastic crowds to the waterfront last weekend, as eight crews competed in four divisions over two days in the annual event held during Summerfest.

When Kaua‘i’s teller of Hawaiian tales Eric Knudsen (1872-1957) was a young man, he became acquainted with an elderly, former Hawaiian whaleboat captain named Kapahe, and it was Knudsen’s pleasure to ...

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 ...