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The following terms are often associated with a boat's rigging, along with other often used terms for equipment used in rowing. The inside of a double scull. Shows the seat, slides, backstops, footplate, shoes and riggers. Backstay A brace which is part of the rigger of sweep rowing boats, which extends toward the bow from the top of the pin ...
Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rower holds two oars, one in each ...
Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically attached to the boat, and the rower drives the oar like a lever, exerting force in the same direction as the boat's travel; while paddles are completely hand-held and have no attachment to the boat, and are driven like a cantilever, exerting force opposite ...
The project covers all articles about rowing, including sport, watercraft, ocean rowing and the history of rowing, as well as articles on famous members of the rowing community. To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing : edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2018-02-24
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The fastest rowing record to cross the Atlantic Ocean by a female crew was created by Chinese women Cloris Chen Yuli, Amber Li Xiaobing, Tina Liang Mintian and Sarah Meng Yajie at the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2017, rowing boat Jasmine 2. Arriving on 18 January 2018, they rowed from La Gomera to Antigua in 34 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes ...
For most of its history, rowing has been a male dominated sport. Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate – well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.
Two "cleaver" sculls. The blades which enter the water are at the top of the picture and the handles are at the bottom. Note how the oar shaft connects not to the midline of the blade (as is the case of macons) but rather higher pitch, that is toward an upper part of the spoon/blade when perpendicular to the waterline.