Pocock Rowing Club

Pocock Rowing Club rows out of a boathouse on Fuhrman Avenue East in Seattle, on the water where Lake Union meets the Montlake Cut. The club carries the name of George Yeoman Pocock, the English boat builder whose racing shells came to define American rowing, and quotes him on its own front page: rowing a race is an art, not a frantic scramble, and must be rowed with head power as well as muscular power.

The club fields five teams: Masters Sculling, a Women's Competitive team, a Men's Competitive team, Montlake Rowing and the Ancient Mariners. Between them they cover the range from crews taking eights out across Lake Union at sunrise to scullers doing speed work in singles and doubles.

Pocock's Learn to Row programme is built for people who have never rowed. Sessions cover the rowing stroke in both sculling and sweep, the terminology, and what it takes to be safe on what the club calls busy and beautiful urban lakes. It also opens the boathouse to the public for National Learn to Row Day.

The club races widely and well. At the Cascadia Masters regatta it entered 96 entries across 31 shells and five teams, came away with 33 medals, and took the team points trophy - the first United States club to do so in that regatta's seventeen-year history.

Pocock is a SafeSport boathouse.