The Correct Method for Pulling and Oar

[Romeo]

Should be headed up "The Correct Method for pulling an oar", but no chance to edit that now. Anyway, just in case you were wondering:

I love the fact that from the admiralty there is no doubt that there is only one correct method, and it is the method your instructor will tell you.

Read more at http://scottishcoastalrowing.org/2016/01/11/fixed-seat-rowing-technique/

 

[pmagowan]

Should be headed up "The Correct Method for pulling an oar", but no chance to edit that now. Anyway, just in case you were wondering:

I love the fact that from the admiralty there is no doubt that there is only one correct method, and it is the method your instructor will tell you.

Read more at http://scottishcoastalrowing.org/2016/01/11/fixed-seat-rowing-technique/

I think, for the Admiralty, it doesn't matter if there are other ways as it is obedience that is most important. It is not the job of ordinary recruits to develop a different way, that will be done at HQ!

 

[Poignard]

I have always found it more comfortable to wear some clothes when rowing.

 

[pmagowan]

I have always found it more comfortable to wear some clothes when rowing.

you are missing out or you don't have the 'best' crew.

 

[TQA]

I have always found it more comfortable to wear some clothes when rowing.

You might but serious rowers often do it in the nude on a sheepskin. You get View attachment 55439 less chafe apparently.

 

[cliffordpope]

do it in the nude on a sheepskin. .

Or would you prefer
To err
With her
On some other fur?

 

[Biggles Wader]

Im sure the correct method for pulling an 'oar is to have the correct money.:encouragement:

 

[fisherman]

There has been much discussion about this among gig rowers and most seem to 'pull through' these days (as I was told last time I got in a gig), pulling the oar back level with the shoulder. We also feather the blade flat.
Monty Halls ( ex marine TV presenter) had a go, broke several thole pins. Trouble was he tried to make a good show using his upper body strength, but he failed to notice the experienced rower drops the blade in the water dead, then pulls, he was hitting the water with the blade, which also lifted the oar to the top of the pin.

 

[Romeo]

There has been much discussion about this among gig rowers and most seem to 'pull through' these days (as I was told last time I got in a gig), pulling the oar back level with the shoulder. We also feather the blade flat.
Monty Halls ( ex marine TV presenter) had a go, broke several thole pins. Trouble was he tried to make a good show using his upper body strength, but he failed to notice the experienced rower drops the blade in the water dead, then pulls, he was hitting the water with the blade, which also lifted the oar to the top of the pin.

Gig rowers do tend to lean much further back than rowers of other fixed seat coastal boats such as the St Ayles Skiffs or the Celtic Long Boats. Is it a characteristic of the type of boat (Gigs are faster and more powerful, with 6 oars compared to 4 for the Celtic or St Ayles), or is it a characteristic of the Cornish that has them doing that?

 

[Keith 66]

Its often because the layout of the boat is too cramped, The St Ayles is just 22ft long with four oars, this of neccessity means rowers are forced to adopt a short choppy style using their arms more. The harkers yard gigs seats are also very close together so a similar style is adopted.

 

[duncan99210]

No idea about other fixed seat boats but the coach in the gig club I row with aims to get us all leaning as far back as practical, keeping the arms straight until the leg and back muscles have done their work. The reason is to get as long a stroke as possible, maintaining an even application of power throughout the stroke. Seems to work quite well, although breaking the habit of using the arms as the major element (picked up rowing dinghies) is hard to break.

 

[LittleSister]

No idea about other fixed seat boats but the coach in the gig club I row with aims to get us all leaning as far back as practical, keeping the arms straight until the leg and back muscles have done their work. The reason is to get as long a stroke as possible, maintaining an even application of power throughout the stroke. Seems to work quite well, although breaking the habit of using the arms as the major element (picked up rowing dinghies) is hard to break.

It's an awful long time since I got my Sea Cadets 'Pulling Ticket', for commanding Royal Navy whalers and cutters under oars, but I seem to recall that it was considered that 'pulling' (with one oar each) was something quite different to rowing (with a pair of oars).

 

[fisherman]

Old chap round here went to sea school at Gravesend before the war, rowing lifeboat training: "You! Get out of that boat, you know more about it than I do!"