Stroke! Stroke!

By adamg on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 8:16pm

See it larger.

Karen was among the thousands lining the banks of the Charles to watch the annual Head of the Charles Regatta today.

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Let us all join together

By Eli on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 10:31pm.

And celebrate our future masters! Lead on children of the One Per Cent, that we may all follow in your glorious wake.

I just can’t get enough of this celebration of the elite. They almost make my life worth living.

How little you know!

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 11:19pm.

What a completely clueless comment.

The Head of the Charles attracts rowers and rowing fans from all strokes of life - including high school crews from low income areas, masters rowers who live simply so they can simply scull, Gentle Giants who move your furniture as a means of training for rowing - can't get more effing working class than that!

In 1985, I still called a rundown trailer home, but they didn't kick my trailer trash ass out of the bow of my MIT 4, nor did they remove our starboard stroke for being a working-class Texan, or our escaped-in-a-boat Hmong coxswain for that matter.

I walked by the HOC along the

By benhav on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 9:36pm.

I walked by the HOC along the banks of the Charles today, and while I did find it a bit on the WASPy side - don't you think you're being a bit rigid in your denunciation?

What makes you the chief sports political economist?

Head of the Charles

By moi on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 11:10pm.

The unity in celebrating success with experienced crews sculling on the beauty of Boston's ambulatory river will leave a taste of Boston's history. Surrounded by exciting onlookers cheering and smiling is what makes Boston Boston. Everyone should allow themselves such fortitude.