Rowing Illustrated

To close this one: I have finally bought the Empacher seat top and mounted it on 165 mm tracks - no big deal. I had to raise the height, which for me, being quite tall, was actually a benefit. The seat top is very comfortable and has a very good amount of "hold" to it because the indents a...

Can't confirm a larger investment money-wise, but lots of changes in personnel, due to retirements and shift in positions.

And the changes are huge when compared to the past, I'd say.

Francesco Fossi off to Germany:
https://nlroei.nl/francesco-fossi-vertr ... d-coachen/

New (old) german head-coach: Marcus Schwarzrock
https://www.rudern.de/news/marcus-schwa ... er-des-drv

Full source: https://www.concept2.com/about/perpetual-purpose-trust

Wonder no one has mentioned Hamish Bond's involvement in the Team NZ effort to defend the America's Cup. Final underway this week.
https://www.youtube.com/@americascup

1 on 1 battle in the city centre of Berlin:
https://www.worldsculling.com/

Men's sweep has been centralized in Dortmund for at least a decade. Whoever wants to make the team knows he will need to move to Dortmund.

I can't help but ask if the coaches are sure they know what they're doing?
If the guy from the 4- were so much better, why has he not been selected for the eight in the first place?

Don't know if this is related to WCII, but

NOT:
Hannes Ocik (GER M8+ Stroke) suspended

Even more interesting are the two Empacher wooden singles:

https://www.rudern.de/service/marktplat ... -1x-75kg-0

It's probably the same on every type of grip: I'd chose an abresive pad and some soap.
Then, in future, I'd recommend to clean the grips after (or before) each row. IMO improves grip feel a lot to have clean grips each time.

Is anyone able to share pictures or even measurements of the Croker seat top underside? I would like to mount it on a 165 mm undercarriage. Website says it only supports 180 mm, but we have been able to mount all sorts of seats tops to 165 undercarriages, so I sense a chance that the Croker might fi...

So, Ian says in his video that we'd rather want a drop shaped oar shaft, then we'd not need the stickers. Then we should look at Dreher's solution: https://www.durhamboat.com/oars/sculling-oars/elliptical-sculls/ (aerodynamic) By coincidence, I picked up a set of Dreher Aerodynamic sculls after my c...

When looking through seat options, some shapes appear to be almost equal to each other. I know that the Dreher large hole seat is equal to the Empacher large hole seat (and is perhaps event manufactured by Dreher). Now I notice similarities between the Croker, Fluidesign, Filippi and Empacher closed...