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Hello again Reader
Having asked the question last week about how easy you find lifting a boat overhead, I got a question from a Faster Master about lifting a single scull onto a car roof rack.
This led me down a deep research rabbit hole of racking, fitments, boat lengths and weights. The full article is below including links to rowing roof rack suppliers. Let me know if there are others I should have included.
And because there’s no such thing as a coincidence, there was a discussion on the Facebook Group Masters Rowing International about taking a double scull on top of a van. Including this very helpful emoji…..
See you in Boston?
Next weekend (18-20 October) I will be at the Head of the Charles with a booth. I’d love to meet any and all masters rowers who are in town as volunteers, athletes and supporters. I will be setting up on Thursday 17th from 2pm – but if you show up, I may ask you to help me carry boxes!
I will be selling some of our loyalty gifts from the past – waterproof socks and spacer placer tools. If you’re not going to be there, we sell merch mail order too.
And…. I will reveal the 2024 loyalty gift for our top customers.
Betcha can’t guess what it is….
Rebecca
Boat lights
We need lights on boats for rowing in darkness. Most waterways mandate an all round white light and some also need red/green side lights to show port and starboard. Although private boat owners may buy their own, most clubs provide rowing lights for members.
Our club’s approach to lights was initially to buy vertical wand-style lights. We have an all-round white light requirement. The masters group worked hard to set up good discipline so there was always a working light when you needed one. And we didn’t appreciate missing lights.
Because we kept the batteries replaced and the lights were always returned to the storage area after rowing, some youth members kept “helping themselves” to our lights and neglecting to return them.
Gah!
So we switched to a marine all round white light which loads into a star-shaped slot in a moulded mount. These didn’t fit into the number slot so the youngsters were less inclined to light fingeredness.
Revolution Rowing Boat Lights
Jim Pickens at Revolution understands both rowing and manufacturing technology. He takes the approach that more people need to be able to affordably access the sport and so his watchwords are simple designs, local construction in USA, and robust quality are .
Mention Faster Masters Rowing and choose to switch out to a velcro strap OR a card mount for the white lights instead of the suction cups.
Jim has given a 5% discount coupon to Faster Masters newsletter subscribers off anything in his store. Use coupon code OTFEAIFAY9.
Bow red/green light with safety lanyard
We want to make sure that when we hand a product over to you it is durable, intuitive, attractive and, most of all, great value. You can be assured that you will receive great products because we use and abuse the equipment that we manufacture on a daily basis as rowers and coaches.
Jim Pickens, Founder, Revolution Rowing
Stern double white light on suction cup with safety lanyard
Use the coupon code OTFEAIFAY9 to get 5% off any purchase.
Jim also sells pontoon floats, single scull storage racks, and rowing-specific tools.
How to figure out the best stroke rate for your crew in a head race. Step by step explanation to use in your next practice. Click the image to watch.
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Boathouse Chat for the Weekend
Thoughts please.Alternative ways to transport a 2x on top on my van? See picture below, it was a squeeze in the slings. Anyone tried an aluminium ladder u-bolted to the roof bars, with wooden cross beams fastened to the ladder and then the boat strapped at the shoulders, hull facing up? Tia
Roof top transport for rowing shells is our lead topic for today.
I would very much appreciate an article on easily loaded roof racks for shells. There are many of these for kayaks, but none on the net for shells. It isn’t just the weight; it is the 27 foot length. I am about to purchase a roof rack for kayaks which has rollers on the rear so that the boat may be pushed up on the roof. I am not at all sure how well this will work owing to the different shape of hull for the shell and kayak. An article exploring this would be appreciated, many of us do not have access to a boathouse.
I’ve car topped a coastal double scull using a rack that mounted on the car’s tow bar – it tilted 45 degrees backwards so you could load the boat at a lower height and lift/push the boat up until the bows were on the front rack on the car roof. Rhino make this one.
I found all these rowing car rack systems on the Rowing Directory– bookmark the page for when you next need to find a rowing product supplier.
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