The Riverside Boat Club lightweight eight on the awards dock at Canadian Henley in August of 1999. The crew was Eric Kenney stroke, Tom Keister, John McKenna, Sean Wolf, Jason Banks, MJ Curry, Erik Limpitlaw, Brian Barrett at bow.
Also on the squad were Mike Dipierro, Ed O'Malley, and Matt Smith. Our coaches were Jon Pojednic and Greg Barringer.

Riverside lightweight eight at the Canadian Henley, summer of 1999.

We're mid-race en route to winning the intermediate light eight pretty handily. The crew was pretty slick as far as tech, and tough enough to get most everything out of their fitness. MJ had pulled a 6:21 2k earlier in the summer, and Tom Keister had spun 6:16... but that was about as close as we got to having true erg monsters in the boat. There were enough people in the high 6:20s and low 6:30s to make it go.

This shell, a brand new Filippi, was tight. A very small coxswain berth, but it had one neat feature: footstrap tie-ins for the cox. Awesome, especially during the 500m dash.

On the medals dock at Canley.

This was the summer we lived at 7 Lowden Avenue: Jono and Jeff sculled at Union with John "F" Reilly, while I coxed with the light squad across the Charles at Riverside.

Jeff's quad (with Aleks Zosuls, Sam from Yale, and Jeff Marois from Tufts) ended up winning the intermediate light quad sculls at Canadian Henley. The Riverside squad won the intermediate light four-without, the intermediate light eight, and took second in the senior light eight with the same crew. (The winners of the intermediate event got a slot in the finals of the senior event. New York Athletic Club won handily in that event as well as in the light eight dash, which was unsurprising, as they had four members of the next year's lightweight Worlds squad in the eight, including Gabe Winkler and Rob Milam.)

I've been holding intergender flexoff's for many a year.