If you spend anytime reading the English rowing websites or perusing the British Rowing regulations, you'll quickly find the English have a profound interest in boating safety.

I am so glad that the University of Warwick rowers have acquired this noble focus. Clearly, they are ready to to do their part for lifesaving, and stand ready and cocked to assist any and all rowers who may face peril in the water.

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Spending most of the morning scanning the new 2012 University of Warwick Boat calendar has been, well, so tedious and ... hard. I found I had to take my shirt off and rub my chest from time to time to keep me focused.

I don't know about you, but isn't always the case at your rowing club that there is one person who is slow to put hands on and help clean the boat, or replace the boat on the rack. Clearly this rower would do just about anything for anyone, and with great pleasure, if he could just relax in the grass after his piece on the water, and let the rest of his team put away the oars ...

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