GLRF Status Updates

So excited to launch our new Rainbow Logo Challenge page.  https://www.glrf.info/initiatives/rainbow-logo-challenge/ Adding the participants from back years right now.  We'll announce the 2025 Rainbow Logo Challenge tomorrow, 01 June 2025 but this time, it is global and works for whenever your country celebrates Pride! 😃

Thanks for your continued support of GLRF as on OnTheWater member!

Great smile!

Outsports profiles a trans man rower who first rowed as a woman as an Oxford Blue and then as a man at Trinity College in the 1940's.  https://www.outsports.com/2025/5/10/24111448/roberta-cowell-michael-dillon-trans-history-week-motor-racing-rowing-pioneers/

Robbie Manson announces his retirement from elite rowing competition but he says he will be rowing here and there, for fun.  No word yet if he will join the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation, a global online community for LGBTQ+ rowers, coaches, coxies, and race/regatta officials.  https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/sport/gay-olympian-robbie-manson-retirement-adult-content-482125/

Thanks for your continued support of GLRF as on OnTheWater member!

Yes, I had the developer add the feature but I am totally loving adding images directly from my phone to the Sin City Erg Regattas+ listing albums!

Thanks for your continued support of GLRF as on OnTheWater member!

Need a last minute gift for a rower in your life?  Why not surprise them with a Shop At GLRF Gift Card?! Quick and easy, and can be sent by email.  https://www.glrf.info/store/gift-cards/

2025 Sin City Erg regular registration ends on Friday, December 20.  Late registration begins on Saturday, December 21.  One fee and unlimited entries!  See you in Vegas!  https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/?job_id=8955

The GLRF Newsletter, Cox Box Squax Issue 075, is now online.  Find it here: 

 

The GLRF Newsletter, Cox Box Squax Issue 074, is now online.  Find it here: 

 

Sin City Erg Early Registration extended to 20 Nov 2024.  Take advantage of the early bird prices!  One fee - unlimited entries! https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/?job_id=8955

We are now on Blue Sky.  The icon has to wait until the theme is updated.  Kind of out of our hands.

Here is our Blue Sky Profile: @glrfcentral.bsky.social

Just sent an email to the Sin City Erg mailing list.  If you missed it, you can read it here: https://mailchi.mp/glrf.info/2025-sin-city-erg-update-1

LBTI Women - WE NEED YOU!

The European Erasmus+ LBTI Women in Sport : Research & Outcomes (WSRO) project is conducting a survey to understand the situation of women in sport. Anyone who self-defines as a woman is welcome to respond.
🧿 The results will serve for further awareness raising campaigns to promote visibility, equality, and inclusion.
💜 We appreciate your participation in the survey. It will take around 15 minutes to answer. Please GO TO THE END OF THE SURVEY - it's important for us to have completed answers.

It is 💯 anonymous and confidential.    THANK YOU!                                                                                                              

👉🏿Link: https://encuestas.uv.es/index.php/876685

So great to see you at the 2024 Head of the Charles.  Thanks for stopping by the GLRF booth.

So great to see you at the 2024 Head of the Charles. Thanks for stopping by the GLRF booth.

So great to see you at the 2024 Head of the Charles.  Thanks for stopping by the GLRF booth.

So great to see you at the 2024 Head of the Charles!  Thanks for stopping by the GLRF booth.

We remember the first GLRF registration in October 2003.  This past weekend, we launched GLRF V2.0 and you were the first registration in the new community! Congratulations.

London Otters Rowing Club hosts their Rainbow Races event at the Royal Albert Dock in East London on 20 Oct 2024. Team Great Britain rower Saskia Budgett Delray joined the competition.  https://sportsmedialgbt.com/team-gb-rower-saskia-budgett-delray-joins-london-otters-for-largest-ever-rainbow-races

2025 Sin City Erg Early Registration is now open! Start planning your 1x and 2x, 4x, and 8+ team events. https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/?job_id=8955

Great article profiling the queer women of the US Olympic Rowing Team https://www.autostraddle.com/queer-women-team-usa-olympic-rowing-team/

It's almost time for the rowing Tour Du Leman. For those outside of Europe, Lake Geneva is actually Lac Leman. We hope your browser has translation capability. This regatta is amazing! https://www.magaviron.fr/bcge-tour-du-leman-la-plus-dure-des-regates-daviron-au-monde/?v=11aedd0e4327