Don’t you just love oars with snazzy designs and fresh looking colors? They look cool. But how do you get there…paint the oars, right? Yep, you can, or you can do this: And save yourself time, headaches, and a mess. I just did 2 sets of eight, and love the results. If you’re thinking about […]
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3 Steps To a Sparkling Clean (and faster) Rowing Shell Hull
[This post has been updated from an older version. It contains links to products I like, or are recommended by smart people I trust.] Here’s a great question from one of my readers. She asked about how to keep her rowing shell hull sparkling clean: We have a 1 year old Vespoli light 8, painted […]
Osgood Used To Row…A Debt Owed To John Hooten
I have an unpaid debt in the rowing world… Years ago I was flipping through a magazine. I saw a cartoon that started a change in my life. See, as a kid I never took things very seriously. Heading off to college, I got sucked into rowing, and soon found myself deeply immersed in a […]
Repurposing An Old Rowing Shell
Repurposing: the process by which an object with one use is transformed or redeployed as an object with an alternative use Rowing equipment gets old. When repairs and rehab no longer work magic, what do you do with that old, old rowing shell? Here’s one answer… There are certainly other options, such as donating to […]
Make Rowing Practices More Effective (and Safer)
The world around us keeps getting more complex. That complexity means things can easily go wrong. And rowing practices are no different. Yet disasters are often avoid, and there’s one very-simple-tool that has helped people such as: passenger pilots, improve their safety record surgeons, increase success rate while reducing patient healing time construction engineers, communicate […]
The advantage of blended rowing
As I write this it is 29 degrees, snowing and just plain icky outside. But soon, it’ll be time to move from indoor rowing to outdoor rowing. Improved weather and warmer water signal a switch from one type of rowing equipment (indoor rowers — AKA “ergs”) to another (shells, sculls and oars). Exciting times. And […]