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Re: You're feathering all wrong Tinus - Why wouldn't an early force application be a legitimate goal?
I would rather change to a higher rate
That's too simplistic, IMHO.
If you delay force application, then later in the stroke you have to
pull harder than you'd otherwise have needed to do. The stroke
efficiency is greatest at the catch, but at the catch you already have
Re: You're feathering all wrong A not-uncommon technique on our canal, used to clear whatever weed or
other plant life you picked up during the drive.
Rob.
Re: You're feathering all wrong On Jul 30, 7:00 pm, "Charles Carroll" <charles_carr...@comcast.net>
wrote:
This sounds rather narrow. It's like an earlier force application has
become a goal in itself. I would rather change to a higher rate
because it improves speed.
I guess that 'improved speed' is what you eventually strive for and
Re: You're feathering all wrong damn, time for a story.
Had a V-8 and 2V-8 up at Seattle to race Washington at Opening Day.
After the
Sat night partying, I took the crews on on Lake Washington just for
an easy cruise to
have a chance to row on the lake.
Dick Erickson was at the boathouse, asked if he could come in the
launch, Dick was the long time head coach at UW.
Re: You're feathering all wrong I'll be more impressed if they spun them 360 degrees on the recovery.
Re: You're feathering all wrong Alistair,

Scribbling posts at a maddening pace while you are taking time away from doing what you really want to do guarantees chaos and muddy thinking. Sorry for the confusion. Let me see if I can clear things up a bit.

Recently I have been experimenting with ways to cover faster and push earlier. Specifically I have been trying to teach myself to scull at higher rates and use a different catch.

Re: You're feathering all wrong Sorry. I was in such a hurry to go sculling this morning that the sarcasm completely escaped me.
Re: You're feathering all wrong Zeke,

When I was at the Club this morning Liz Stone gave me a copy of the paper I mentioned.

As it turns out the paper is the first 7 classes of the Beaufort scale, which as an engineer is probably not new to you.

The first link is the Wikipedia article on Beaufort scale. Probably because it is all new to me and because I had never even heard of Sir Francis Beaufort, I found the article fascinating.

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