November 6th, 2009
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We have heard about a second hand Rowperfect for sale by a club in Scotland.
I spoke yesterday to the club who is selling it. They are going to send down some details about the condition it's in and the repairs that are needed to get it working well and the price they are seeking.
Anyone interested, please get in touch.
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November 6th, 2009
The Wingfield Sculls is one of the most prestigious events for British club scullers. Raced on the Tideway head course it has been raced since 1830 as an annual event for men and, since 2007 also for women. See link for full results, history and background to Mr Wingfield, the founder.
Raced yesterday, the conditions were blustery and the water was quite choppy.
Grant Craies was at Putney (servicing Rowperfects) and took this photo of Alan Campbell leading Mahe Drysdale (Tideway Scullers' School) and Graeme Coleman (Nottingham and Union RC) along the moored boats.
British Rowing were quick to claim credit with a press release about the results.
How about getting some more club scullers to enter next year? Graeme shows us how great it is to line up with world champions in a race that is open to the unexpected (as any race on the Tideway can be). And why don't more national squad members participate?

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November 6th, 2009
The Good Coxswain Guides are a series of 12 booklets developed specifically for coaching and training coxswains.
We have been given three complete printed sets as review copies for Rowperfect's customers to test out. We intend selling them as electronic e-books (pdf) and so these are a really nice opportunity for a club to get hold of a full printed set of booklets.
If you would like to review them, please email us saying why you'd like to review them and which people in your club would help with the review. Would you like electronic or printed versions of the booklets?
You will have two weeks to read and review them and we'll publish your work here on the website and in the online shop.
The booklet titles are:-
- The cox and the boat
- Steering the boat
- Using the voice
- Preparation for the water
- Launching and landing the boat
- Responsibilities on the water
- The coxswain as coach
- Race day - preparation
- Starting and racing
- Safety on the water
- Further drills for the cox as coach
- Coaching the coxswain
- Logbook of personal records- outings, race plans, self-assessment
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November 6th, 2009
Nic Bourne has joined the Rowperfect UK team.
He will be working with us on the day to day running of the website shop and will be the person you probably speak to when you call us up.
If you want to be the first to congratulate him, his mobile number is 07939 584140 - go on, send him a text and introduce yourself!
Nic is an accomplished coach, sculler and coastal boat rower and has been a driving force in establishing the Teign Scullers Club near his home in Teignmouth.
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November 5th, 2009
'Tis the season to get prepared early for festivities and Rowperfect has teamed up with Linda Thomas and her newly formed company, RowCo, to supply you with rowing and sculling themed seasonal greetings cards.
RowCo offers a new and distinctive range of cards, gifts and clothing from Henley on Thames. Its delightful range of snowy Christmas cards scenes are perfect for rowers, and it also offers a personalised Christmas card service. RowCo Christmas cards can be overprinted with a selected greeting and personalisation details of company name and address.
Rowperfect is selling 7 card designs in packs of 10 cards. Our "Gifts for Rowers" section of the shop has a range of Christmas present ideas.

RowCo was set up by Linda Thomas who loves rowing at Henley and started to row in Durham 40 years ago. The photography for most of the cards was taken beside the river in Henley and at Henley Royal Regatta, and many of the products are from Henley based suppliers.
To view the full range of products including single cards, posters and clothing please visit the website . Or contact Linda on 07740 626640 or email enquiries@rowco.co.uk for more information.
Here is the full range of card images - we suspect we know the identity of the sculler in the last image….

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November 3rd, 2009
The OarRATER ratings watch is a new product we're stocking. One of our reviewers asked a question about its waterproof-ness and here's the answer we had back from the manufacturer:
I have been asked about the "water resistant" quality by someone whose other brand stopwatch stopped even at the mere mention of water. So I chucked an OarRATER into a bucket of water - it floated. Took it out and it was fine.
I did this five times with no ill effect.
This does NOT mean it is thoroughly water proof as water may leak in through the lanyard holes - but it is as good as any of the competition, if not better.
Just thought you would want to know.
Barrie Robinson
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October 31st, 2009
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October 30th, 2009
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October 30th, 2009
We follow a Twitter account @TheRowingCoach and there was an interesting question from Tobias @soundblaster21
@TheRowingCoach hi any good websites for junior rowing games, either on or off erg looking for something a bit different to do with them. thx
Now we know about ergo golf. Here's the simple way to play:
- set a number of holes and decide the length of each hole in meters.
- Each athlete has to try and complete that distance in the fewest number of strokes.
- Keep score
And we found this more complex version of "Erg Golf" with a score sheet table from the Cascadilla Boat Club.
We found a discussion thread on Coxie.com which included
- teams rowing 1 minute each and aiming for furthest distance
- 500m relays in teams of 5 where each rowed 5 times
- Coxswains yelling out split times (high or low) and the last person to achieve the split is out and gets to yell at the rest with the cox
Any others?
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October 29th, 2009
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