DoryWoman Rowing

DoryWoman Rowing Row a traditional-style wooden dory in beautiful Belfast Bay with an experienced open water rower and licensed Maine Guide!

Come for the heat, stay for the glow!HEAT • FLOW • GLOWExcited about this new collab with yoga instructor Niki Lazure. H...
04/07/2026

Come for the heat, stay for the glow!

HEAT • FLOW • GLOW
Excited about this new collab with yoga instructor Niki Lazure. Happening Saturday, May 9, 2-3:30pm, right on the Belfast waterfront!

Sweat, stretch, and settle into deep relaxation. Join us for a guided sauna and outdoor yoga experience designed to warm the body, release tension, and leave you glowing from the inside out.

Space is limited to six people. FMI and to book visit dorywomanrowing.com

The family that rows together…and saunas together!Last Sunday, I had the great pleasure of rowing with this delightful t...
04/05/2026

The family that rows together…and saunas together!

Last Sunday, I had the great pleasure of rowing with this delightful trio. It was a birthday outing for Cat. She was happy to be the passenger while her husband Steve and son Shelby rowed!

I love to play “musical thwarts,” which involves moving around in the boat so that I can row with Steve and Shelby individually and then get them rowing together! My boat has the room to do this! Steve and Shelby were just rockin’ it on the oars.

Afterwards, this lovely family did a sauna. And I was happy to join them for that too! It was a perfect spring day and outing!

Wishing everyone a happy Easter and Ostara and that you’re enjoying the day with those you love.

You’ve got to love friends who:1. Share your love of aventure, paddling on a wavy day.2. Wear your.DWR hats (awesome adv...
04/03/2026

You’ve got to love friends who:

1. Share your love of aventure, paddling on a wavy day.
2. Wear your.DWR hats (awesome advertising).
3. Have their cameras on the ready.

Both Glenn and Liz are clients and good friends! And very adventurous.

Glenn is an impressive waterman. He does many of the spring river races in Maine. On Saturday he’ll be doing the Passagassawakeag River Race. Hoping to see him in his element. This is why he has gained the name of Aquaman 🧜

Liz, she’s “the Wave” 🌊 She’s developed a thirst for these in the four years that she’s been rowing with me.

Fun to parallel paddle with Glenn! Wishing him all the best tomorrow at the race!

04/01/2026

I started this video a few weeks ago, at the transition from winter to spring. Now it’s April 1. It’s starting to really feel like spring out there! The ice & snow feel like a distant thing. They could come back!

Melusine is the name of my sauna, after the legendary double-tailed mermaid, sometimes depicted with a serpent tail. She is a shapeshifter. A magical being, representing transformation. Being your true self. Unfurling your tail.

I named her Melusine, in part, because of her legend, and also because of her two tails. Melusine represents the second “tail” of my business, wood-fired sauna on the waterfront.

Both tails, my boat and my sauna are intended to be spaces where you can be into your body, be your authentic self, experience adventure and take care of yourself. Commune with the natural world in all of its beauty and mystery.

Ice & snow. The ocean. Steam & sweat. The moon, now full. Transformation.

Unfurl your tails with me this spring! Book a row and sauna. It’s a helluva combo, but you can also do these separately. Seaweed Row & Seaweed Sauna coming up this month for .week Yoga - Sauna pairing with and Mother’s Day Row and Sauna in May, too!

New community sauna hours for spring-later in the day, with all that extra light!

Spring Rows are like…🌊❄️Spring Sauna is…🔥💦Buckets of fun with these two different pairs: friends who did the Spring Equi...
03/27/2026

Spring Rows are like…🌊❄️

Spring Sauna is…🔥💦

Buckets of fun with these two different pairs: friends who did the Spring Equinox Reset together and a terrific couple who like to celebrate their birthdays with an adventure. Both pairs did a row and a sauna!

Adventure and wellness is what it’s all about! Better together! Rowing & sauna. Sharing the experience with someone you love.

Fun offerings coming up this spring. Seaweed Rows & Sauna. Yoga & Sauna. Sauna Sundaes (Ice Cream & Sauna on Sundays)! Book at my DWR site!

Photo of me & Garen by Jean!

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For last year’s Full Pink Moon I wasn’t in Maine. I was in South Carolina! But you can bet your britches I still got out...
03/24/2026

For last year’s Full Pink Moon I wasn’t in Maine. I was in South Carolina! But you can bet your britches I still got out on the water!

When you’re a moon child you do this sort of thing.

Under that gorgeous first full moon of spring, and I did a Sunset Dolphin Paddle! And dolphins we did see! And the sunset…spectacular.

This year, I’m not going anywhere for the Full Pink Moon except out in the bay to watch it rise! Will you join me? I’ve got two seats left in the boat for this magical row, happening next Tuesday, March 31!

Full 🌕 sauna after! Or just sign up for the sauna!
Book via my DWR site.

03/17/2026

On St. Patrick’s Day, in addition to raising a pint to my Irish heritage and the town I live in, I sometimes like to watch “The Secret of Roan Inish” by John Sayles 🦭🦭

On Sunday, I felt like I was in a scene from the movie with the very close proximity of this Harp seal to my dock! I had JUST mentioned to my clients at the end of our row about the Harp seal we’d been seeing upriver over the past week.

Well…I backed into the dock and lo and behold THERE WAS THE SEAL FLOATING BY ON AN ICE CHUNK!

I sent the photos and videos to Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic who confirmed they think it’s the same juvenile or “beater” seal I saw two other times last week!

Luck o’ the Irish to see it a third time? What an amazing encounter this was. My clients were amaaazed. This doesn’t happen every day! Folks on the footbridge and the boardwalk were equally enchanted! I imagine this was a well documented moment!

The seal seemed untroubled by the paparazzi. When its ice chunk moved closer to a piling and there were some dogs above on the boardwalk, it slipped back into the water.

In my imagination, I picture the seal playing a game. Swim upriver, find a nice ice chunk and float back down. Repeat! Life seems good for this seal.

Wishing you a happy St. Paddy’s Day with similar magical encounters! 🍀🌈💛🦭

Now this was fun! The Belfast Police did their annual   for Special Olympics Maine.Coming right off a row, I couldn’t mi...
03/14/2026

Now this was fun! The Belfast Police did their annual for Special Olympics Maine.

Coming right off a row, I couldn’t miss this! And with these officers braving the elements for this good cause I couldn’t resist offering Chief Bobby Cormier and his crew an opportunity to warm up after in my sauna!

Winter came back yesterday with cold temps in the morning and a stiff breeze. It didn’t take much convincing to come over to the sauna!

It was fun to have a sauna full of officers! Some whom hadn’t done a sauna before. This space is for everyone! It’s a space of community care, connection and wellness. Of fun. A place to take care of yourself, your loved ones, your colleagues, your staff.

I loved meeting Chief Cormier and his team. Congrats to the Belfast Police Dept. for the $$ and awareness they raise with this fun winter event!

Hope to see y’all back in the sauna!

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Look at who I saw yesterday! A juvenile harp seal cruising down the Passagassawakeag on a bergy chunk of ice!I didn’t ta...
03/11/2026

Look at who I saw yesterday! A juvenile harp seal cruising down the Passagassawakeag on a bergy chunk of ice!

I didn’t take these photos, but have permission from the photographer Mike Bonney to share them. Thank you Mike for these wonderful photos!

I was watching the seal, feeling irritated that I didn’t bring my phone with me to capture the moment. Sometimes it’s good to unhook from those devices!

The seal was floating through the upper bridge section of the river. All of a sudden, there was a camera with a very long telephoto lens right next to me! That was Mike!

We watched the seal float by and continue downriver. It was a beautiful magical thing to witness. And surprising! It was in the mid 60s yesterday and here is an Arctic seal basking in the sun on a chunk of ice!

I honestly did not expect to see another “Ice Seal” as Harps are known, this winter. I wrote about Arctic seals in Belfast this winter in a story for the The Bangor Daily News a few weeks ago. Here's the link: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/27/outdoors/outdoors-contributors/arctic-seals-belfast-harbor-joam40zk0w/

It is so nice to see what appears to be a happy healthy seal hanging out in Belfast! We’ve had some good activity here this winter. I like knowing that seals find our sweet harbor and watershed a place of rest and refuge. If you see any other seals like this, please keep your distance and report your sightings to Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic. They are the very wonderful organization that tracks seal sightings and manages seal strandings. Consider supporting them with the donation!

Wishing this young harp seal safe travels back to its homeland in the Arctic after its Maine stay!

On my morning row yesterday, we saw a large grey seal! They're coming back!

I had a really full day yesterday, with no space to post about   But I was thinking about it all day!In the past, I’ve p...
03/09/2026

I had a really full day yesterday, with no space to post about But I was thinking about it all day!

In the past, I’ve posted a lot about women rowers who have inspired me over the years and their immense contributions. I could post again about that. I learn of women rowers every year, past and present, that have done amazing things in this sport. Their stories are important and need to be told.

This year, I’m thinking a lot about women sauna keepers. And I want to acknowledge them. I just watched a moving presentation about this very topic, hosted by part of National Sauna Week. The presentation focused on women’s role past and present in creating a space of community care with sauna. So much history, tradition and rich values with Finnish sauna, with women at the center. Acknowledging here the work of Becky Pelkonen and Dalva Lamminmaki.

And I think of the women sauna keepers here in Maine. The ones I’ve learned from and been inspired by. There are numerous women sauna operators in Maine who are all doing amazing work creating healing spaces, spaces of community, “third spaces” as Becky refers to in her presentation. These spaces are more important than ever.

The women at truly embody these values and are the sauna keepers I’ve been so inspired by and had the honor of collaborating with, at last year’s Ice Fest. It was that collab that set me on the path I’m on now, becoming the keeper of my own sauna.

I want to express warm gratitude to these women and encourage you to visit their sauna and all other sauna keepers in Maine!

Today, I head to in Newcastle. I can’t wait to experience their sauna!

A belated Happy International Women’s Day to you!

Resharing the link to the presentation in my stories! Watch it!

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Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
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