Rowing Part 3

Rowing Part 3

The actual sport has not changed from the first boat race, two thousand years ago, except for the boat. Boats used to be made wide for sturdiness and to allow a greater amount of leverage of the oars. Today they are much thinner and have a glazy finish of plastic. There is no need to make the boat wider for leverage because they use outriggers that make the oar's swing point 20 to 30 centimetres over the water. MORE! [BA] {RW}