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

• Re-naming boats – a tricky issue that Chris Partridge sets about solving.
• The Round Britain Rowing Race GB Row 2013 with its £100,000 prize is getting mentioned a lot but should you choose a long or short boat?
• The New Years Honours in UK and New Zealand name rowers among recipients as well as local awards including George Cox of Bideford ARC
• Kenya does well at the African Rowing Championships in Alexandria

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.

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