Head of the Schuylkill Regatta

Masters Rowing Association
www.mastersrowing.org

The Masters Rowing Association was established in 1999 as a non-profit (501c-3) organization to fulfill three important needs: supporting and encouraging the amateur sport of rowing, providing important educational support and an organizational voice, and assisting in the success of all rowing clubs, charities and organizations. The MRA offers masters an organization to help them pursue their rowing passion for a lifetime.

The MRA is a membership organization that has seen membership double in each year of our existence. Masters Rowing Association members enjoy benefits of membership that can pay for the cost of membership each year. All of our members agree - MRA Members Get More! For more information check the benefits page.

The MRA has worked hard to develop a series of regattas across the country that includes many of the premier masters events in the United States. The MRA provides clinics at many regattas and in 2003 will be visiting clubs across the country offering free rowing clinics.

Club Membership
In the fall of 2002 the MRA began a Club Membership program that provides rowing clubs with important facts about how to run a rowing club, how to make the most of your club budget, how to cater to the masters members of your club as well as a host of other information. Each quarter (mid-January, mid-April, mid-July, and mid-October) MRA member clubs will receive the next installment in the "Masters Rowing Guidebook." Please contact the MRA if you or your club is interested in being an MRA Club Member.

Utz Quality Foods, Inc
www.utzsnacks.com

Located in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Utz is a privately owned corporation and is currently one of the nation’s leading snack food manufacturers. In 1921, Bill and Salie Utz began their quest to produce a wholesome, quality potato chip. Market demand quickly responded to their tasty chips and Utz Quality Foods, Inc. now produces a variety of salty snack foods for the entire Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts. Utz Quality Foods, Inc.’s constant focus on quality production and consumer satisfaction recently earned them the title of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery’s 2005 Snack Manufacturer of the Year.

Jefferson University Hospital
www.jeffersonhospital.org

As an academic medical center within a regional healthcare system, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Center City, Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, Methodist Hospital and Ford Road) are dedicated to excellence in patient care, providing quality clinical settings and positive role models to health professional students, and developing improved methods of healthcare and healthcare delivery in a cost effective manner.

Mariner Insurance
www.marinerins.com

Mariner focuses on the needs of the entire rowing community, insuring rowing shells, trailers, coaching launches and other rowing equipment. Coach’s liability policies are available. Since 1989, Mariner has provided commercial and personal marine insurance for agents and individuals. They represent the highest rated companies, with decades of ocean marine insurance experience. Mariner can meet all of your marine insurance needs from rowing shells, rowing clubs and schools to yachts, tour boats and marinas.

Connect-A-Dock
www.connectadock.com

Connect-A-Dock is proud to be a sponsor of the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. Connect-A-Dock is the official dock of the Masters Association. Connect-A-Dock’s modular, floating plastic docks are the dock of choice for rowing clubs worldwide. Their award winning design provides exceptional stability and longevity in an easy-to-install system. Connect-A-Dock systems are in place at leading Universities, schools and private rowing clubs throughout the U.S.

Connect-A-Dock’s current product line includes the 1000 and 2000 Series Connect-A-Dock plastic floating dock system and the lightweight Bass Baby® two-person fishing boat. The 1000 Series has a freeboard of 8" (20.32cm) and the 2000 Series has a freeboard of 17" (43.18cm). Made from durable polyethylene plastic, the docks never need painting and will not rot, peel or splinter. Connect-A-Dock contains no foam, making it environmentally safe and completely recyclable. With unmatched stability and ease of use, the docks can be added on to and reconfigured very easily at any time.

Connect-A-Dock floating docks are winning international acclaim for ease of installation in residential and commercial applications. Connect-A-Dock is located in Adair, Iowa. Connect-A-Dock, Inc. is a subsidiary of Owner Revolution, Inc. also headquartered in Adair, Iowa

For more information, please contact Connect-A-Dock at www.connectadock.com or 1-877-742-3071.

Finally, an ultra premium water that is flavored with natural fruit oils and essences, containing no sugars or artificial sweeteners has hit the market. In a world where flavored water often seems more like a sugar aid than a hydrating tool, O has been making a splash. O water is simply clean, crisp water with a twist of fruit flavor.

Tom First, one of the “Juice Guys” who co founded Nantucket Nectars, and Ed Slade, former President and Chief Operating Officer of FIJI water created O in hopes that people would change their views on what flavored water should taste like. Tom says that “flavored water should taste more like actual water that hydrates the body as quickly as possible. Water should not taste like “kool-aid.”

With the growing concern of obesity in the United States, O could not have appeared on the market at a better time. O is working with schools across America to promote a healthier lifestyle while offering students flavorful selections of water. These natural fruit flavors include Wild Berry, Strawberry, Mango Orange, Mandarin Orange, Lemon and Lime, Peach, and plain.

While kids love the taste of O, adults are drawn to its fresh aroma and clean taste. Ed states that “for years people have told me they know they need to drink more water but are bored with the taste. O water provides variety plus all the healthy benefits of water.” O is distributed nationally and can be found in Shaw’s Supermarkets and Big Y (New England), Gourmet Garage (NY), Central Market (TX), Mollie Stones (CA), Pick and Save (WI), and Biggs (OH) just to name a few.

O Beverages is based in Cambridge Massachusetts and has been on the market since June 2005. Check us out on the web at www.obeverages.com to add a little twist of flavor to your life!

Rowing News
www.rowingnews.com

The world's leading rowing magazine delivers engaging features, compelling views, and the most up-to-date dispatches from the rowing world at large every month, 12X per year.

row2k.com
www.row2k.com

row2k was formed in Spring 1997 in response to the utter absence of rowing information about a couple championships, especially the EAWRC Sprints, at which Ed had coached and still helped to run. After posting race times, dates, and directions to Lake Waramaug to rec.sport.rowing a few dozen times in a few days, Ed threw up some homemade HTML and got the word out. row2k was born.
"We started off modestly and without much knowledge of Web design, html, or much of anything about where we were headed; for the truth and the proof, see row2k when it was a few weeks old, on June 14, 1997."
row2k has since developed into what by most accounts is the most heavily trafficked rowing Web site in the world, and thus perhaps the most widely read rowing publication in any format ever.

Jones Apparel Group
www.jny.com

Jones Apparel Group, Inc. is a leading designer and marketer of branded apparel, footwear and accessories. The Company's nationally recognized brands include Jones New York, Evan- Picone, Norton McNaughton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Erika, l.e.i., Energie, Nine West, Easy Spirit, Enzo Angiolini, Bandolino, Napier, Judith Jack, Kasper, Anne Klein, Albert Nipon and LeSuit. The Company also markets apparel under the Polo Jeans Company brand licensed from Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, costume jewelry under the Tommy Hilfiger brand licensed from Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and the Givenchy brand licensed from Givenchy Corporation, and footwear and accessories under the ESPRIT brand licensed from Esprit Europe, B.V. For more than 30 years, the Company has built a reputation for excellence in product quality and value, and in operational execution.

Verizon
www.verizonwireless.com

Verizon Communications is one of the world's leading providers of communications services, with approximately $68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles and circulation.

Carr & Duff, Inc.
Email: info@CarrDuff.com

'Customer Satisfaction through Quality Service'

Carr & Duff, Inc. is a multifaceted electrical construction company with our headquarters in Huntingdon Valley, PA and satellite offices in Shillington, PA. and Jackson, NJ. The firm was founded in 1954 as a partnership. In the early years, Carr & Duff, Inc. performed mostly line construction and emergency service work. Since 1960, Carr & Duff, Inc. has expanded and grown into all facets of electrical/data construction and maintenance. Carr & Duff, Inc. cross section of our clients shows the variety & diversity of our qualifications and of our people. Our safety program works hourly with our aggressive uncompromising quality people to give our customers the economic and practical solutions they require.

2100 Byberry Road
Huntington Valley, Pa. 19006
Phone: 215-672-4200
Fax: 215-675-9800