National team blades, mid-paintjob, at the Princeton boathouse in late July of 2000. They are getting prepped for Worlds and the Sydney Olympics.

A straight four boats out onto a misted, millpond Lake Carnegie in July of 2000. Selection for Olympic boats is going on.

I'm taking this photo from just inside the bay doors of the Princeton University boathouse, which was in the middle of being refurbished and expanded (at great expense) that summer for the college crews and for the national squad's use.

A straight four and a pair launching for a morning workout.

Lake Carnegie is piss flat. The orange buckets have orange string looped between them, and are set up at the edges of the docks to keep away the Canada geese. Canada geese are absolute shitfiends, and will foul a quarter acre of dock in fifteen minutes, flat.

Waterskiing at Mark Flickinger's house, during the summer of 2000 with the under-23 USRowing selection camp. This is on Keuka Lake, which is absurdly clear. Pete Giese laughs on the left, Brian Bauer sits in the right foreground, Dylan Cappel looks on from the right background, and Ed Golding fiddles with his camera. Flick is driving the boat, and Jim Murphy is styling on a chair perched on a wooden tabletop.