In rowing there are four primary types of shells used: the sculling outrigger, the pair-oared outrigger, the four-oared outrigger, and the eight-oared outrigger. An outrigger is a set of rowlocks ...

Balancing a rowing shell – a very long, very narrow vessel only a couple of inches off the water – is like going backwards on a fast-moving skateboard with only one wheel. Balance is helped ...

Built in 2001, it’s taken 14 years for the Swiss rowing shell to make its American debut on Lake Jordan, N.C earlier in September. A little less than four months later and the “largest rowing ...

The Alexandria Crew Boosters Club, which supports the school rowing teams, ordered the 57-foot 9-inch-long Vespoli M2 racing shell almost immediately. Contributions for the $25,000 boat poured in ...

The 62-foot wooden rowing shell has the scars to prove it’s around 70 years old: a large crack on its bow courtesy of a wreck, water stains, faded KEEP FEET OFF lettering painted periodically ...

The 73-year-old shell not only shows that rowing is in the U-Dub's blood, but marks a triumph over those who claimed superior blood. In men's crew races at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the German ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- For most people, the act of rowing involves a wide aluminum boat, their grandparents' pond and the probability of going around in circles until someone comes to tow you to shore.

The racing shells his team used were the same as every university rowing team on the West Coast, and most on the East Coast, had used for decades: long, thin slips of cedar designed and built by ...

THAT HAND-BUILT ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE NAMES IN THE COMPETITIVE ROWING WORLD. PILOT BOATS FIRST STARTED IN VERMONT BACK IN THE MID 70S, AND TODAY THESE SINGLE SHELL SLIDING SEAT RACING ...

“It is with privilege that we dedicate this racing shell in honor of Willard Keen,” Todd said. “Willard and the Keen family’s commitment to the Oregon State rowing program and to the ...