ICYMI, the organizer Kate wants to know if we want to make a Masters Women's 1x category vs Open Women's for Saturday. Biggest Canadian Beach Sprint event ever!!

As we look ahead to Saturday’s racing, we have a significant number of Masters-eligible athletes entered in the Open Women’s 1x. This is very exciting, as we have never had more than a couple of masters athletes race at any given RowOn Beach Sprints event!

With that, we are trying to find a balance between quality racing, an efficient race schedule, and the overall participant experience, we are gauging interest in a Masters W1x event. If there are enough women interested in racing in a standalone Masters event, instead of the Open Women’s 1x, we will split that event.

If we offer a Masters Women’s Solo, we will use modified age adjustments (0.5 of the Henley Masters Age Adjustments, to reflect the…

Many thanks to Alistair Hensler for his extremely generous gift of $2000.00 awarded to to most participants to complete the full marathon along with the Hensler Cup..

Congratulations to ONEC's 14 intrepid rowers who faced rain, waves, and a brutal east wind to complete the course and bring home the Hensler!

Well done team!

Between my phone surviving a 3 hr PM swim in June & CSM 2026, me thinks it’s time for ONEC watersports to apply for sponsorship from Pelican!