| Rowing Safety
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- 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
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Rowing Equipment
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- Boat Parts: riggers, oar locks, collar
- Bow line importance
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- Seats and positions
- Set foot stretchers
- Strapping down boats
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| Oarsmanship
- Command Boat Movement
- Hands on the boat
- Up to waist
- Up to shoulder
- Walk on
- Let it run
- Oar Care
- Boat Care
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Rowing on Water Commands
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- Set the boat
- Row hard port or starboard
- Feather/square your oars
- Bury your oars
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| Rowing Skills
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- 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
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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
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| Navigation
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- Read a chart
- Flow pattern
- Identify shoals
- Tides, low and high
- Lunar cycle and tides
- Beaching points
- Dangers of mid channel rowing
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Rowing Manoeuvrability
- Turn the boat 360 Port
- Turn the boat 360 Starboard
- Hard port and starboard
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| Rowing Challenges
- Catching a crab
- Digging too deep either side
- Rushing the slide
- Rowing over the barrel
- Not squaring up on the catch
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- Slow release
- Too much layback
- Rowing same recovery and drive pace / not keeping a 3:1 ratio
- Right over left grips
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