Last Almost Forever: 13 Steps to Help Your Rowing Equipment Last An Eternity!
Want to keep your equipment rowing, and work well? This is the Special Report for you. Too many people let their equipment die an early, painful death.
With these 10 simple steps you can save money, time, and your equipment.
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The information in this new Special Report, Last Almost Forever: 13 Steps to Help Your Rowing Equipment Last An Eternity! (SportWork, Inc.) is designed to help anyone keep their rowing equipment going strong, and for long.
- Mike
A Few Benefits
- Learn the importance of cleaning your hull.
- Discover the do’s and do not’s of waxing and wet sanding the hull
- Understand the negatives about lubrication
- Find out the critical care steps for your electronics
- Learn the critical thoughts on storing and transporting your equipment
- See why you really do need insurance
Included is an Action Plan to help you weave the 10 steps into your daily rowing.
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An Eternity
How long should new equipment rowing last? Three years? Five years? Longer? Barring any unforeseen tragedies like fire, theft, or a major collision it is not unreasonable to expect brand new rowing equipment to last 15 to 20 years. That’s a lot of hard strokes if you’re an average rower?about one million. And that’s also a lot of dockings, trips to away races, and wear and tear.
Should you be an optimist and expect your shell to last that long? With a little tender loving care, and using the following advice, the answer to that question is a definite yes!
You don’t to be a mechanical genius to get your rowing equipment to last an eternity (and in rowing 20 years is an eternity), but you will find that some foresight can be very helpful. To assist you I’ve put together this report, and talked to several experts who have been around rowing for quite some time. With their insight, combined with a little elbow grease here, a little money there, and some planning on your part you can add years to your equipment’s life.
But before we go any further I want to answer one question that I get quite a bit from coaches, and that is, “Can older equipment be fast?” I will let the following story told to me by my friend Allen Rosenberg, who coached the 1964 US Men’s Eight to Olympic Gold answer that.
In 1962 a Russian crew came to Philadelphia to race in the People’s Regatta. Not having their own boat, their American guests arranged for them to pick any boat out of all the boathouses along Boathouse Row. They picked one, raced, and won—beating Vesper, several college crews, and the Canadian National Team.
What makes this interesting is that the Vesper boat they beat was the forerunner of the American eight that won the Olympic gold in 1964. What makes this even more interesting is that the boat that the Russians selected and rowed was built in 1947, making it fifteen years old, and it had spent almost all of those fifteen years on the racks, being rowed very seldom.
Allen Rosenberg, who was involved in the coaching of the Vesper eight at the time says, The Russians proved that day that old boats can win races.
And another point about older equipment . . . although there have been changes in rowing equipment over the years there have been few, if any, significant major changes in the equipment over the past one hundred years.
For instance, the hull design of the eight rowed in the men’s events of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic games is probably very similar to the hull of the men’s eight that will be rowed in the men’s events of the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
In the following pages, I will focus on the three most common types of rowing equipment, and what you can do to help them last.
Almost all of the steps are very simple, involving nothing more than common sense, some elbow grease, and a desire to keep the equipment going strong, for long.
Table of Contents
- An Eternity
- The Equipment
- The 10 Steps
- Action Steps
