If you are new to the sport of rowing, this Viewer’s Guide will give you the basics, beginning with the types of rowing and equipment. Sculling is the type of rowing in which athletes use two oars ...

PITTSFIELD — Once settled into a single-person ocean shell at the Berkshire Rowing and Sculling Society on Onota Lake, I took a deep breath before Lauren Miller launched me out toward the open water.

Instructor: Deb McCabe, of Boulder, the founder of the Longmont Sculling Club. McCabe learned to row in Boston and competitively rowed at Northeastern University. She began with sweep rowing, using ...

Key Quote: “Being strong doesn’t mean you go fast, being technically savvy doesn’t mean you go fast. You need to learn how to use your strength most efficiently to get the most out of your body, the ...

The oars glided through the placid water in steady strokes, forcing my thin boat to slide away from the dock. It was going smoothly; I was getting the hang of it. “This is easy,” I thought. “I’m a ...

A stiff breeze whipped off the rippling, inky water of the Port of West Sacramento, making me shiver in my thin workout shirt and leggings. Eight of us, each with a portion of the gunwale wedged on a ...

New Zealand rowers Peter Taylor and Storm Uru after winning a Bronze in the Lightweight Mens Double Sculls Rowing Final, at Eton Dorney during the 2012 London Olympics. Photo / NZ Herald Peter ...

We all remember the childhood reader about the little engine that knew it could. The SAROCA is a boat that knows it can, too. In fact, this schizophrenic little boat thinks it can do everything: row, ...