Olympic gold medalist Hamish Bond on building his house, Game of Thrones and the perfect horse steak.

Joseph Sullivan's Olympic gold medal last year probably seems a distant memory right now.

Swiss rowing crowds tend to be a tough gig to entertain but Hamish Bond and Eric Murray had them clapping in the aisles at the Rotsee overnight.

Controversy erupted when Robbie Manson and Michael Arms were selected as the new men's double sculls combination for the World Cup rowing season.

At Napier Girls' High School, rower Emma Twigg used to enjoy belting out a bar or two of Jerusalem.

Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale has been beaten in the quarter-finals of the men's single sculls at rowing's Henley Royal Regatta.

Memories will be prodded and tales may grow in the retelling when a notable anniversary is celebrated at the Auckland Rowing Club tomorrow.

It's a proud moment for any parent when their child represents New Zealand in sports - but having two kids do it on the same night calls for a double celebration.

With four gold medals and a silver at the season's second World Cup regatta.

Hamish Bond and Eric Murray created further history at the second World Cup regatta of the season in England.

Making cabinets and mentoring rowers may seem strange bedfellows but for Rowing New Zealand's head sculling coach, they are symbiotic.

They have gone unbeaten for four years, capped it with the Olympic gold in London and are about to get back on the World Cup circuit next week.

No one there will easily forget New Zealand scullers Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan's sizzling sprint to gold at last year's London Olympics.

World and Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale is the exception rather than the rule in that he progressed on to the world stage without coming through the school system.

Rowing New Zealand are looking to beef up their women's programme and have master coach Dick Tonks overseeing the group this year.