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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.
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?
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:-
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.
'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….
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
The final HC video set is showing how to use the Coxmate GPS system to calibrate your HC. When Peter Hodson was specifying the design, he asked us at Rowperfect UK whether we thought a 500m distance was appropriate as the shortest distance over which to measure speed for calibration purposes.
Now many of you know we are located in Cambridge, UK. This has oen of the most bendy rivers in the UK and we were adamant that our river only allowed 300m in a straight line maximum. And so we influenced the specification of the HC GPS - it now calibrates over 250m.
Phew.
You can hire an HC GPS calibration unit from us for one week at a time. Please ask.
And now the second part of that video.
Now for some fun while training. Setting up a pace boat function.
This sets a fixed speed as if you had a pace boat running along side you. The HC then displays a + or - speed against the stated pace so you can see if you are going faster or slower than your stated aim. This is perfect for long UT2 winter outings so you can see the effect tiredness or technical changes have on your boat speed.
There are two videos - one has the pace speed set at meters per second and the second at 500m splits. You need to have first set up the display to the speed measurement of your choice.
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:
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
Any others?
Onwards and upwards. Got the basic display settings showing what you want? You can turn on the backlight, display your distance moved per stroke (as advocated by British Rowing - the most important speed measurement to track).
Now onto accuracy and calibration: The HC allows you to use either a coxmate micro impeller or the NK impeller. You can set the display to accommodate this. Because the micro-impeller spins faster than the NK you'll get hugely fast or slow speed readings if you fail to set this up.
And to calibrate the HC manually (assuming you've done two pieces on flat water over a marked distance and have recorded the offset error from the device reading against the actual disatnce).
Rowperfect (UK) Ltd, Sales: Rebecca Caroe +44 (0) 7970 734 330, Service: Grant Craies +44 (0) 7970 266 180
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