George Parsonage - Riverman

17/05/2026

Yes, it is that time of year again, May 17th Norwegian Independence Day. In honour of all my Norwegian rowing friends the Norwegian flag is flying on the pole outside my house. It is also the day over 50yrs ago that I claimed the singles record, which still stands, for sculling the length of Loch Ness; (Guiness Book of Records and Guiness Book of Speed) seems like yesterday.

14/05/2026

An interesting piece of history of bridges on my web site

Histories

10/05/2026

A few minutes ago, from Ghent. Ben beaten by the Swiss heavyweight International and the Polish heavyweight International. Conditions horrendous, times slow. Swiss 7.41, Poland 7,42, Ben Clydesdale 7.51.
Another wonderful Bronze Medal.
Competing for his Club among all those national champions. Well done Ben and Chris.

09/05/2026

Ben takes heavyweigh bronze in Belgium missing the siler by .5 sec in a photo finish. 1st Belgian Heavyweight champion, 2nd Swiss heavyweight champion3rd Scottish lightweight champion. Well done Ben and Chris, and there is still tomorrows racing to come.
Stephanie took gold in her age group quad sculls Strathclyde Park/Castle Semple/Loch Lomond composite.

09/05/2026

Having won the lightweight championship of Belgium last year, Ben and Chris head again to Ghent today and tomorrow, this time for Ben to tackle the heavyweight sulls. Stephanie heads for Castle \semple.

05/05/2026

Annudder video from our Sunday outing..

05/05/2026

New "Tale"

Tales of the Riverman 218 - Going for a swim - Tales of the Riverman

03/05/2026

Ben was kind enough to help me down the brae, onto the pontoon and into the copy of my dad’s boat “Ann”. Ben filmed the outing. Great to see the two of us sculling together, great to be out in a boat and great to see how wonderfully my fiberglass copy of the “Bennie” performs.
Christopher is at Nottingham this week at the British University Championships coaching crews who are doing well. Results will be on the SU site Sunday night/Monday.be on the SU site Sunday night/Monday.



Ben was kind enough to help me down the brae, onto the pontoon and into the copy of my dad’s boat “Ann”. Ben filmed the outing. Great to see the two of us sculling together, great to be out in a boat and great to see how wonderfully my fiberglass copy of the “Bennie” performs.
Christopher is at Nottingham this week at the British University Championships coaching crews who are doing well. Results will be on the SU site Sunday night/Monday.

30/04/2026

Tales of the Riverman 215, 216,2217 are on my website

Phone rings, Force Control, yes sir, the adrenaline starts, decisions, can I go by boat, if not, best place to launch, any problems, keys, spanners, barriers to move; there is apprehension when there is to be a delay with a towing vehicle (not often, but it happened), you run the boat on the trailer...

26/04/2026

Swapping rowing colours.
Many years ago when Owen McGhee bought the Club a new flag, I suggested that the club strip should be changed to be similar to the flag, to which Owen agreed. Years and years later Ben has developped the idea and doesnt the strip look great. Owen would have loved it.

26/04/2026