Richard (Dick) McClure has been the “Boatman at Burnaby Lake” for almost 30 years.

The former silver medal-winning rower at the 1956 Olympic Games, also has 25 years of coaching rowing on his resume, which includes a bronze medal for national men’s team at the ’84 Olympics and a fifth in the earlier world championships.

A Level IV NCCP coach, McClure has worked with a host of Olympic medal winners. He was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.