Boston Rowing Marathon - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Rowing_MarathonThe event started as a one off in 1946, a pub bet, and was big news for the town. A single coxed four of seniors rowed from central Boston to the Brayford Pool in central Lincoln (against the river flow) and took around six hours. A distance, measured at the time, of 34 miles. On 26th October 1947, a teenaged coxed four from the Boston Rowing Club, to…