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| Rowing Terms | ||||||||
| Home Page | Blade: The part of an oar that goes into the water. Blister: Small, fluid-filled bump often found on rowers' hands after a vigorous practice Catch: The point at which the blade enters the water Cox or Coxswain: The person who steers and calls out commands to the rowers (typcially a under 130Ibs and hence many are women) Cox box: A microphone system used by the cox that plugs into a speaker system in the boat Double: A two-person, four-oared skull Drive: The part of the stroke when the blade is in the water, this is the high-exertion part Erg: Torture device, aka Concept II rowing machine. Used in training, causes severe exhaustion Finish: The point at which the blade exits the water Gunwale: The sides of the boat Hatchet blade: An oar whose blade is, oddly enough, shaped like a hatchet. Most popular blades because they have a greater surface area Head race: 5000 meter (3.2 mile) race, so-called because it runs from the "head" of the river Eight: An eight-person, eight-oared sweep boat (We row this at UML) Falling in: Occupational hazard for novice scullers Four: A four-person, four-oared sweep boat (We row this at UML) Keel: The bottom of the boat Launch: The powerboat used by coaches to stay alongside a rowing shell during practices Spoon blade: An older, symmetric blade style. A traditional looking oar Oarlock: A pivoting frame that connects the oar to the boat Octet: An eight person, sixteen-oared skull. Very rare Paddle: Rowing lightly. This is a good command Pair: A two-person, two-oared sweep boat. Port: The left side of the boat, facing forward. But remember rowers sit backwards, the cox is the only one facing forward Pressure: How hard you're rowing, expressed as a percentage of how hard you can row. I might row 100% in a sprint race, 80% in a longer race and 50% on the paddle Quad: A four-person, eight-oared scull Rate: How many strokes per minute you're taking. 20 is low while 30 is high. Olympians may row at a 40. (Remember, harder doesn't mean faster, it's possible to row at 100% at an 18 stroke rating) Recovery: The part of the stroke when the blade is out of the water, and the rower is getting in position to take the next stroke. The recovery is considerably slower than the drive. Rigger: The triangular (usually) framework that supports the oarlock about 2' from the boat Rudder: Small (often hand-size) pivoting fin mounted under the keel that steers the boat. Scull: A boat in which each rower has two oars, OR the oars used in one of these boats. Shell: Any sweep or scull rowing boat Single: A one-person, two-oared boat Skeg: A small, immobile fin projecting from the keel, to help a boat stay upright and go straighter. Stroke: The rearmost rower in any boat but a single, who sets the rate for all rowers in the boat Sweep: Opposite of scull, each rower has 1 oar Way enough: Stop!! |
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