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2. Double scull - Wikipedia

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   A double scull, also abbreviated as a 2x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. [1] Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semicircular in cross-section in order to reduce drag to a minimum.

3. Coxed pair - Wikipedia

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   A coxed pair, abbreviated as a 2+, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain (cox). The crew consists of two rowers, each having one oar, and a cox. One rower is on the port side (rower's right hand side) and other is on the ...

4. Sculling - Wikipedia

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   Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull, its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler. [1]

5. List of rowing boat manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Eton Racing Boats (ERB) Euro Diffusions; Flying Dragon Boat Co (Huangzhou, China) George Sharrow Racing Shells; Harris Racing Boats, formerly George Harris Racing Boats (Iffley, Oxford, UK) Hi-Tech Racing Boats; Lola Aylings; Karlisch; Kaschper Racing Shells; Kiwi International Rowing Skiffs (KIRS) Owen; Pirsch (Friedrich Pirsch Bootswerft ...

6. Pocock Racing Shells - Wikipedia

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   In 1911, on George's 20th birthday, they arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, with $20 in their pockets and a dream of building fine racing boats. They were commissioned to build two single sculling boats for the Vancouver Rowing Club’s boathouse, without moorage, and found that at low tide they rested precariously on the mud flats. During ...

7. Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls

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   This rowing event is a double scull event, meaning that each boat is propelled by a pair of rowers. The "scull" portion means that each rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. The competition consists of multiple rounds.