The one place to examine photos and specifications of over 110 open-water rowing boats from 60 builders. If you rowed in college you may want one of the long, fast sliding-seat shells that have been designed to cope with wind and chop. Propelling yourself through whitecaps at seven knots is a real kick! Others may prefer a traditional rowing craft like a wherry, Whitehall, or dory. Wood construction or modern materials? Rowed single or double? Room for the dog and a picnic hamper? Convertible from fixed- to sliding-seat? Under $1,500 or over $10,000. With so many attractive choices, the Buyer's Guide will help you find the boat for you.
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This Buyer's Guide profiles over 100 fixed- and sliding-seat boats from 60 builders, ranging from comfortable 13-foot rowing dinghies to projectile-shaped 30-foot double sculls. The publisher, Open-Water Rowing, which also offers a subscription newsletter covering this growing sport, has pulled together diverse designs for recreational rowing, from carbon and Kevlar Olympics-inspired boats modified for open water to classic wooden designs that have proven themselves in the hands of fishermen, lifeguards, water taximen, guides and open-water racers over the decades.
In the nineteenth century the sport of open-water rowing was more popular than canoeing. Declining almost to obscurity after the advent of the outboard motor, rowing on lakes, bays and the ocean began to grow again in the past two decades, thanks to new fast designs developed on both coasts, and the simultaneous revival of interest in dories, Whitehalls, wherries, guideboats, and other traditional designs led by the late builder and author John Gardner.
The sport of open-water rowing is well-established in Europe, with many clubs sponsoring touring events (trek-rowing) and races, and the larger events drawing up to 5,000 rowers. In North America, 100-boat events are becoming more frequent on both coasts, along with many smaller races, cruises, shows and gatherings, often called "messabouts' after Ratty's comment in Wind in the Willows, "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -- The Editor
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Filled with photos and specifications of over 100 open-water rowing boats, from 13' rowing dinghies to 30' offshore double sculls, this no-nonsense book is the only such resource for open-water rowers.
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By Andre de Bardelaben (Confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Buyer's Guide to Open-Water Rowing Boats (Paperback)
Never before has there been a reference like the Buyer's Guide to Open Water Rowing Boats. You could spend years and hundreds of dollars trying to gather this much information on contemporary rowing craft, and your collection still wouldn't equal this. There have been other guides to sliding seat rowing shells and guides to fixed seat rowing craft, but this guide gives you a broader selection of either than I've seen anywhere. This isn't the place to find flatwater racing shells. Here you'll find boats that'll permit you to row out beyond the Golden Gate Bridge or, perhaps, to another country. So, if you're tired of having to get up before dawn to complete your workout before the wind and power boaters ruffle the lake too much for your Olympic shell look-alike, get this book and check out some seaworthy boats. If you had one of these craft, you could sleep in, and the water skiers would just have to get used to skiing around you.
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