Head of the Charles, Boston, Oct 20-21

Hudson Boat Works had record setting results as the Official Boat Builder of the 43rd Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. The weather was warm and the racing was hot as hundreds of thousands of spectators watched 2000 boats and 8200 competitors race over 2 days on the world famous 3 mile river course. The Hammerhead 8+ made an impressive HOCR debut by dominating both Championship Eights. The US Rowing Men raced the clock from pole position in their H - Hammerhead en route to winning by 26 seconds and missing the course record by 4 seconds.


US Rowing Men racing to a decisive victory in their Hammerhead 8+

In the final race of the regatta the US Rowing Women broke the course record by 5 seconds in their new M - Hammerhead 8+ with the Canadian Women 13 seconds behind in the same hull. The Open Lightweight Men's race was extremely close with US Rowing, racing under NYAC, claimed the title in their new M - Hammerhead 8+ by beating the Dutch and Canadian National teams by 1.2 & 1.5 seconds respectively. The Canadian's were also racing a Hammerhead 8+ for the first time.

Rowing Canada won the Open Lightweight Women's race by a dominating margin of just over 1 minute in their Hudson. The Men's Championship Four was won by US Rowing in the same Hammerhead 4+ they used to win this year's World Championships. The final six events of the regatta, all sweep, were won by crews racing a Hudson. The four Championship sculling events were held the previous day on Saturday with Hudson producing the strongest performance in the small sculling boats for many years. The Champ Men's Single was one of the closest races of the regatta with Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand narrowly losing to Canada's Malcolm Howard by 0.68 sec and only beating fellow countryman Nathan Cohen by 0.05 sec. Both Kiwis raced the new Great White hull. The Champ Men's Double was won by US Rowing by 20 sec over a very strong performance by a Lightweight Double from the University of Western Ontario also racing a Hudson.

USA World Rowing Challenge, Oklahoma River, Oct 11-13

As the official and exclusive boat supplier, Hudson provided 18 Great White Singles, 18 Pair / Doubles, 8 Quads, & 8 Hammerhead Eights for every international entry.
The status of this new event as part of the Oklahoma Centennial Regatta Festival was raised considerably by the presence of many top international entries from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Czech Republic, & Mexico.


Three time World Champion, Mahe Drysdale races Great White to victory.

Three time Men's 1x World Champion, Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand, had less than 48 hours to get used to his new Great White before winning the 2000m Centennial Sprint Championship and $7500 cash by beating fellow countryman Nathan Cohen by less than a length. Emma Twigg, made it a Kiwi Daily Double by taking out the women's race for the same purse. All three New Zealanders will make the trip to Boston and race their new Great White's at Head of the Charles.

US Rowing Men's 8+ light up the course in Hammerhead during Night Sprints

The 8+ races were extremely exciting. In the men's event Canada continued their dominance in the 2000m Olympic distance by beating the US by open water but the Americans came out for the night sprint fired up racing their Hammerhead at 46 spm covering the 500m distance in 1:18 to win by a deck over Canada and the Czech Republic. The US women raced to victory over both distances ahead of the Canadian and Australian teams as the new women's Hammerhead continues to turn heads. The sharks will enter the Charles river this weekend in force with the US Men and Women looking to defend their titles.