Gallery: (4-12-2023) L.W. Ship Canal & Shellhouse
OVERVIEW
When it’s time to get onto the water, members of the Seattle Pacific national-caliber women’s rowing team need only open the shellhouse doors … and the water is right there.
That would be the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which is quite literally a stone’s throw away from those shellhouse doors. The Falcons can lift one of their eight- or four-oared shells onto their shoulders and walk it down to the nearby dock from which they launch.
During most any day of the year, but especially during the warmer weather, the Ship Canal is bustling with boats, from one-person sculls to tall-masted sailboats to yachts.
Then there’s one Saturday in April when the Falcons are making waves in the annual Falcon Regatta. They start at the far end under the Fremont Bridge, stroke past Wallace Field and Brougham Pavilion, and finishing a few more strokes up the canal.
While they are doing their work on the water, fans are doing their along the shore, cheering on the team during the race and then enjoying coffee and doughnuts between races as part of a morning-long celebration of SPU rowing.
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