Science has also transformed how today’s rowing men and women are ... to fine-tune the design of the racing shells, as well as the shape of the oars that are used to propel them.

This is a practice of the Tallahassee Rowing Club ... Racing shells are made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic with a honeycomb structure. Sculling oars are about 9.5 ft. long and made of ...

In the East, where rowing is important chiefly because it gives occasion for pleasant water-fetes, crews last week were still trying to get used to the feel of a shell after the solid oar-machines ...

The long-awaited Mystic River Boathouse Park project hit a milestone Wednesday after the Stonington Board of Finance approved funding that will allow work to start this summer.

It’s demanding work to get a rowing shell through the rigors of competition in the (hopefully ... Watch men and women rowers from age 21 to their 80s carve the water with their oars, gaining speed as ...

They sit in perfect symmetry, each holding one oar with both hands. The whole body is involved in moving a shell through the water. Although rowing tends to look like an upper-body sport ...

She is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she was president of the Shell & Oar Society. She lives part-time in Coronado. Rowing has been described as chariots of fire with ...

The North Side Boat Club has a pair of oars ... rowing powerhouse. Workers in Quincy's manufacturing and construction industries gathered after the workday ended to take their racing shells ...

dangling like a featherweight blanket on a refuge that hosts songbirds and oar-pullers from across central and southern New Hampshire. The Amoskeag Rowing Club, with a boathouse on the Merrimack ...