Rowing Slang
What is the coxswain call for stopping?
What is weigh enough.
This part keeps the oar in place.
What is the oarlock.
What were the original rowing boats made out of?
What is wood.
At the finish, what part of your body should the oar be positioned?
What is the sternum.
What are rowing boats called?
What are shells.
From the rower's perspective, what is the right side of the boat called?
What is port side.
This part keeps your feet secured in the boat.
What are the foot stretchers.
What year was the MHS Crew Team started/founded?
What is 1971.
What part of your body does most of the power in the stroke come from?
What are the legs.
The estimated amount of muscle involvement in the stroke is 60% legs, 20% core, and 20% arms.
What is the largest rowing event in the world?
What is the Head of the Charles Regatta.
What is the part of the oar that catches the water called?
What is the blade.
What is the part of the boat called that is located under the boat in the stern?
What is the skeg.
What is the name of the old race that Middletown used to host, but does not happen anymore?
What is the Head of the Connecticut Regatta.
What is the ideal drive to recovery ratio?
What is a 1:2 drive to recovery ratio.
What is the main difference between a quad and a four?
What is sculling and sweeping.
Pairs, fours, and eights are sweep (each rower uses one oar); singles, doubles, quads, and octuplets are sculling (each rower uses two oars).
What part of the rigger secures it to the boat? (not all boats have this)
What is the backstay.
Note: Boats with wing riggers do not have these.
This part of the boat, located on the underside of the boat in the bow, measures the split?
What is the impeller.
Who is the founder and first coach of MHS crew?
Who is John K. "Jack" Smith
What is it called when a rower's oar gets stuck in the water and is not pulled out of the water at the end of the stroke (oar stuck and in water and becomes parallel to the boat)?
What is a crab.
(Watch videos)
What is the process called when your blade is parallel to the water on the recovery in the boat?
What is feathering.
What is it called when you take short strokes to align at the start of a race in the spring?
What is pinching.
What are the metal bars/wings that come out of the boat called?
What are riggers.
Which alumni was an Olympic silver medalist?
Who is Phil Stekl.
Bad technique that slows the boat down when rowers rush up to the catch during the recovery, where the momentum of the rowers sends the boat in the opposite direction.
What is check.
Note: This is why it is important not to rush during the recovery and maintain a 1:2 drive to recovery ratio.
How long (in feet) is the average eight?
What is 62 feet.