2021 L2 Skills Checklist

L2 Skills Checklist 2021

Rowing Safety

- Dock protocol
- PFD use
- Marine basin etiquette – rules of the road
- Water and wind restrictions
- Weather awareness – WindFinder, Lightning Danger map
- Rowing shell safety equipment
Water temperature

Rowing Equipment

- Boat Parts: riggers, oar locks, collar
Bow line importance

- Seats and positions
  - Bow
  - Stroke
  - Coxswain
- Set foot stretchers
Strapping down boats

Oarsmanship

Command Boat Movement
- Hands on the boat
- Up to waist
- Up to shoulder
- Walk on
- Let it run
Oar Care
Boat Care

Rowing on Water Commands

- Up to the catch
Let it run

- Set the boat
- Row hard port or starboard
- Feather/square your oars
Bury your oars

- Hold safety
- ¾, ½ slide
Stop

Rowing Skills

- Getting in and out of the boat
- Command the boat into the dock
- Catch, Drive, Release, Recovery
- Rowing in unison
- Digging port and starboard
- Racing Start: 1/2, 1/2, 3/4, full
How to take wake or waves – coastal versus flat water
Stroke rate
Half slide rowing -importance in big waves

Rowing Drills

Rowing on the square
Pause arms away
Pause arms & body away
Pause @ ½ Slide
Pick drill (arms only, arms and body, quarter slide, half slide)
Alternate feathered/ square blades

Navigation

- Read a chart
- Flow pattern
- Identify shoals
- Tides, low and high
Lunar cycle and tides

Beaching points
Dangers of mid channel rowing

Rowing Manoeuvrability

Turn the boat 360 Port
Turn the boat 360 Starboard
Hard port and starboard

- Egg beater
Full stop
Back down

Rowing Challenges

Catching a crab
Digging too deep either side
Rushing the slide
Rowing over the barrel
Not squaring up on the catch

Lazy release
Too much layback
Rowing same recovery and drive pace / not keeping a 3:1 ratio
Right over left grips