The End of the Island Rowing Podcast

Fergus, Tom, Camilla and Ed sit down and go through all of the headlines and geek out on the record break entries for Henley Royal Regatta 2024.  We also welcome back  Richard Phelps for 20 minutes to hear all about the entries and regatta from his perspective including some of the best races he's been involved with. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King R...

Fergus, Tom, Camilla and Ed are back to review all the action from World Cup III in Poznan including a famous gold for Great Britain's Ben Pritchard. Fergus reveals why he thinks the PR3 Mix 4+ is the greatest sports dynasty of all time and we also look into the new coaching appointments at OUBC.  We also touch on Met Regatta and the imperious display of sculling from Wycliffe. This episode i...

Fergus and Fraser are joined by both Jack and Sholto to review the 2024 NCAA Championships and IRA Championships. We look back on dominant regattas for both Texas and Washington and we're thrilled to be joined by Associate Head Coach of Harvard Men's Rowing, Pat Lapage to look back on their cracking season and look ahead to the Harvard/Yale...or Yale/Harvard race this coming weekend. Thi...

Fergus, Fraser and Jack have convened to preview this weekend's TWO national championship regattas. The men head to Lake Mercer, NJ for the IRAs and the women to Bethel, Ohio for the NCAAs and we've got the preview you need ahead of all the racing. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sus...

Fergus, Tom, Ed and Rosie have reconvened on the bank holiday Monday to look back on all the racing over the weekend.  We pick through all the highlights from National Schools' Regatta 2024 as well as World Cup II out in Lucerne. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sustainable boat builder, p...

Fergus, Fraser and Jack look back on an epic weekend of Conference Championships. We talk through Brown snatching the Eastern Sprints title, Cal and Stanford winning the last ever Pac12 titles and who's all booked a ticket to the national championships. This week we're thrilled to welcome back Michael Siravo to talk through Syracuse's historic victory at the ACC and look ahead to th...

Fergus and Fraser are joined by Sholto Carnegie of Crew Connection to bring you the bumper conference championships preview episode.  We look back at the Dad Vails and then go through each conference one by one picking the favourites on the men's and women's side. This week we're joined by Kim Cupini, head coach at the University of Tennessee. We talk about the fantastic season the...

Fergus Mainland and Fraser Innes are joined by Jack Gosden-Kaye of Crew Connection to run through the latest from the world of US Collegiate rowing. What went down at the Windermere Cup? Can the Stanford Women bounce back after defeat to Texas and did the Princeton Men finish the regular season undefeated? All these questions answered and so much more. This week's interview is with Ivo Krakic...

Fergus and Camilla welcome Alex Darby back to the show to run down BUCS Regatta 2024. We talk semi finals or no semi finals, the winners and losers from BUCS Regatta and run through Championship, Intermediate and Beginner categories as we review BUCS Regatta 2024. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremo...

Fergus and Fraser are back to review everything from across the US Collegiate scene. They delve into everything on the Men's side including Princeton v Yale v Cornell and Harvard v Penn v Navy. On the Women's side, there's the Longhorn Invitational to pick through along with the Lake Wheeler Invitational and so much more. This week, Fergus and Sholto sit down with Yaz Farooq, Head C...

Fergus and Tom are joined by Olympic silver medalist, Jack Beaumont to run through everything from the Euros out in Szeged, Hungary. GB clean up in the Men's Sweep, The Romanians are finally topped in the Women's Double  This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sustainable boat builder, produ...

Fergus and Fraser are back with Jack Gosden-Kaye with all the latest from the US Collegiate scene.  On the men's side, No1 Harvard welcomed the Princeton Tigers while on the west coast The Washington Men and Women travelled to California. Oh and how 'bout them Tennessee Volunteers at the Big10 Invite... This week, we welcome back  Head Coach of Texas Rowing, Dave O'Neil to look ahea...

This week, Fergus and Tom are joined by Ryan Morrison, Founder of Rival Kit. We talk through why Rival was created, some of the key learnings from a start up in the rowing world as well as how Rival has adapted following the global pandemic. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sustainable boat bui...

Fergus and Fraser are back with Sholto Carnegie with all the latest from the US Collegiate scene. W run through the top 10 duels that have taken place on the Men's side as well as the likes of the UVA Invite and the Ivy League Invite on the Women's side. This week, we're joined by Head Coach of Princeton Men's Rowing, Greg Hughes, to run through the Tigers' season so far,...

This week, Fergus and Tom are joined by Dave Dickison, CEO of Wintech & King Racing North America. We discuss how to grow your rowing clubs, lessons the sport can learn and what Dave's 'SuperBowl' for rowing could look like... This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sustainable boat...

Fergus, Camilla and Tom are joined by Olympic Gold and Silver medalist, Grace Prendergast to go through all the results from the first World Rowing Cup held in Varese, Italy. Who's peaking for FOQR? Have the Sinkovic brothers made the right decision switching back to the Pair and how about GB's depth in Womens's Four?! All this and so much more. This episode is sponsored by Wintech...

Fergus, Fraser and Jack are back to bring you all the action from another superb weekend of racing in the US as well as preview everything that's coming up in the next few days. The three of them pick through the winners and losers of the coaches polls too. This week's guest is Claire Ochal, The Liz O'Leary Head Coach for Radcliffe Heavyweight Crew. Claire talks through her ambition...

This week, Fergus and Tom are joined by Alfred Campenaerts CEO of Salty Lemon Entertainment and the brains behind EXR. EXR's aim? To make indoor rowing fun. That is the mission of EXR, the first indoor rowing application that interacts in virtual 3D worlds. Alfred discusses how EXR and indoor rowing can shape the future of the sport and how it can help commercialise rowing whilst appealing to...

Fergus and Fraser are join by the other half of Crew Connection, Yale alumni and GB rower Sholto Carnegie to run through all of the latest from the US Collegiate rowing circuit. This week, we're joined by Alex Perkins, Head Coach of Northeastern Men's Rowing to catch up after the IRA Invite in Sarasota and hear some more about the programme  from Boston. Camilla Hadland-Horrocks also sha...

Fergus Mainland and Tom Morgan catch up with victorious Presidents Seb Benzecry and Jenna Armstrong after a triumphant weekend on the Tideway for the Light Blues. We talk through the all of the racing especially THAT steering decision, what it means to Seb to join an elite group who have won three boat races and what's next for CUBC in the summer... This episode is sponsored by Wintech &...

Our coverage of US Collegiate Rowing is back up and running! Fergus Mainland is joined by Fraser Innes and our good friend Jack Gosden-Kaye from Crew Connection, the  specialist US recruitment advisors, to run through the latest racing from across the pond. Fergus also sits down with Wesley Ng, head coach of the University of Pennsylvania Women's programme to run through their results from th...

Fergus, Camilla, Tom, and Ed are back and looking back on The Head of the River Race and The Schools' Head of the River Race which took place over the past couple of days. In this bumper episode we pick through all the narratives from the big end of winter races as well as pick through the action from the Junior Sculling Head at Dorney Lake. Finally, all eyes turn to the Gemini Boats Races wh...

Fergus and Tom and live from the Crew Announcement for the 2024 Gemini Boat Races. They caught up with Cambridge President Seb Benzecry and Oxford President Ella Stadler to hear their thoughts after their crews were announced to the world. Earlier in the week, Tom caught up with Lenny Jenkins, who has just been announced in Oxford's Blue Bloat to hear all about his rowing journey up to this p...

Fergus, Tom and Camilla are joined by Olympic Silver Medalist, HRR Steward and Chair of WEHORR, Jess Eddie to run through all of the results from this year's event. Leander take the first round in the road to the Remenham, Newcastle are back on top of Durham following BUCS Head and Hinksey blast themselves right to the upper echelons of the junior ranks with SHORR just around the corner... WE...

Fergus, Ed, and Camilla are joined by former University of York rower and JRN writer Ryan Winterbottom to run through the latest racing from across the U.K including the always popular BUCS Head. This episode is sponsored by Wintech & King Racing. WinTech & King Racing have established themselves as the largest and foremost sustainable boat builder, producing over 2000 boats annually. They...