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2. List of rowing boat manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   The following are the most commonly used recreational sliding seat shell manufacturers in current use: Baumgarten Bootsbau; C-Line; Echo Rowing; Edon Sculling Boats; Gig Harbor Boat Works; Leo Coastal Rowing; LiteBoat; Little River Marine; Maas Boat Company; Peinert Boat; 1 Australia (wavecutter) Rowing Sport Boats (RS boats) Virus; Volans ...

3. Human-powered watercraft - Wikipedia

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   Row boat; Rowing a trainera. Using oars individually, with both hands on a single oar, is sweep or sweep-oar rowing. [2] In this case the rowers are usually paired so that there is an oar on each side of the boat. Sweep-oared craft include: Coxless pair, Coxed pair, Coxless four, Coxed four, and Eight; Galley, Dromon, Trainera, and Trireme ...

4. Racing shell - Wikipedia

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   In watercraft, a racing shell (also referred to as a fine boat (UK) or simply a shell) is an extremely narrow, and often comparatively long, rowing boat specifically designed for racing or exercise. It is equipped with long oars, outriggers to hold the oarlocks away from the boat, and sliding seats.

5. Rowing - Wikipedia

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   Longer, narrower rowing boats can reach 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) but most rowing boats of 4.3 m (14 ft) can be rowed at 3–4 knots (5.6–7.4 km/h; 3.5–4.6 mph). [23] Many old rowing boats have very full ends (blunt ends); these may appear at first glance to be bad design as it looks slow, not fast.

6. Oar (sport rowing) - Wikipedia

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   In rowing, oars are used to propel the boat. Oars differ from paddles in that they use a fixed or sliding fulcrum, an oarlock or rowlock attached to the side of the boat, to transfer power from the handle to the blade, rather than using the athlete's shoulders or hands as the pivot-point as in canoeing and kayaking.

7. Motorcycle seat - Wikipedia

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   A dual seat, typical of most modern motorcycles. A motorcycle seat (sometimes saddle) is where rider sits, and may also accommodate a passenger. The most common type of motorcycle seat is a dual saddle or bench seat, which runs along the top of the chassis and is long enough for a pillion passenger to straddle the motorcycle behind the rider ...