Snow Row
Hull Lifesaving Museum, Hull, MA
March 1, 2008

The Snow Row, covers a 3, 3/4 mile triangular course starting off the beach at Windmill Point, continuing around Sheep Island, past the Peddocks Island day marker, and back to shore. Huge crowds gather on the beach beside the museum's Windmill Point Boathouse to share in the wild, LeMans-style start and one-of-a-kind gathering of boats and athletes. Entirely within view of the shore, the race is a superb spectator event and is also a rare opportunity to see, up close, rowers of all ages and skill levels and their stunning array of wooden pulling boats on the beach and in action – wherries, peapods, whitehalls, dories, ocean shells, kayaks, pilot gigs, whale boats, and Irish currachs.

Echo Rowing Shells Dominate the Snow Row

Rich Klajnscek in an Echo finished first in sliding seat and first overall in a time of 31:19 minutes closely followed by Ray Panek in a time of 31:51 minutes, second in sliding seat and second overall, also in an Echo. Wayne Lysobey, in a Pienert Dolphin finished 3rd in sliding seat and 7th overall. Lorna Perry in her Echo the only woman to finish near the top was 4th in sliding seat and 16th overall. Other sliding seat finishers were Donald Libbey in an Echo, Ken Gifford in an Alden Star, and then Pat Loftust in his Echo. Overall there were 57 boats of all varieties.