"katy" wrote in message
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Jeff wrote:
* katy wrote, On 3/5/2007 8:54 AM:

Jeff wrote:

Here's one for all you wimps that have an outboard on your dink.
Real men row:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GOJt5mRIg

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I've seen a dredge do that...it's hilarious..looks like some kind of
metallix prehistoric monster paddling down the water...and BTW, real
women row also...if I put an outboard on the back of Dinghy from Hell
the front end would be perpendicular to the water! So I row. And my
granddaughter is on the crew team at school so she's REALLY rowing!


My daughter has started on my rowing machine. She has just enough time
to get that scholarship to Radcliffe.

We're going for U of M...she has my rowing machine...either that or the
DAR scholarship...

She can get/keep fit on a rowing machine but it is nothing like a racing
shell. Hugely muscular people from other sports often win championships on
indoor rowing machines but a racing shell demands speed of hand allied to
technique. Good technique can only be learned on the water.
If she is keen she should join a rowing club and get on the water in a shell
at the earliest possible age. Start on a single. Any single sculler can
quickly learn sweep rowing but the reverse is not true.
Best of all you can keep rowing and competing to whatever age!