Here’s your weekly opportunity to enjoy tales from others who also love rowing. This weekly round-up is for a short list of interesting, in-depth articles for you to read over the weekend.

This week in the rowing online news several stories caught our eye

• Tickets for the Samsung World Rowing Cup 2013 at Eton Dorney went on sale this week. A 3-Day Adult ticket is £50 GBP and they’re selling quickly!
• Katherine Grainger has been shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year – vote for Katherine on December 16th.
• Does your club have  a Twitter account?  Row2K are collecting a list of clubs, regattas and ‘other’.  Check here to see if yours is there – or submit it for inclusion.
• Santa Claus runs a winter Olympics for the elves – day 9 is rowing
• Drysdale wins Billy Webb single scull challenge against Karonen and Cohen; Crowe dominates womens race.

And of course, if you have news that you think other readers would enjoy – send it to us via our contact page. Each day we tweet and retweet short rowing news links that our followers are sharing – to get these follow @rowperfect on Twitter.