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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 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 ...
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 ...
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In the United Kingdom, rowing generally refers to sweep rowing only. The term pulling was also used historically. [2] In the other rowing discipline, sculling, each rower holds two oars, one in each hand. Sweep or single oar rowing has a long history and was the means of propulsion for Greek triremes and Viking longboats. These boats were wide ...
Herbert Roger Morris (July 16, 1915 – July 22, 2009) was an American rower who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [1]Raised in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Morris had rowed on Puget Sound as a boy and took up sweep-oar rowing at the University of Washington.
The rower on the left of the photo, or the bow of the boat. is rowing "starboard" or "bowside". The rower on the right of the photo and closest to the stern of the boat is rowing "port" or "strokeside". A coxless pair, abbreviated as a 2-and also known as a straight pair, [1] is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing.
A Nielsen-Kellerman cox box in a rowing shell. A cox box is an electronic device used in competitive rowing that combines a digital stroke rate monitor, stopwatch, and voice amplifier. [1] It is generally used by a coxswain to monitor the crew's performance, and amplify instructions given by the cox using a microphone and series of wired ...