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    Rowing (sport) (category Boating)
    States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles...
    65 KB (7,154 words) - 09:10, 15 October 2024
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    Barley (redirect from Six-row)
    tells the story of the related figure Sceafa as a sleeping child in a boat without oars with a sheaf of corn at his head. Axel Olrik identified Peko, a parallel...
    63 KB (5,866 words) - 11:43, 19 October 2024
  • rows with the oar on the port or left side of the boat. This means that the oar blade is placed to the rower's right side. Sculler A rower who rows with...
    45 KB (7,180 words) - 03:53, 28 September 2024
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    xebecs and other oar-sail hybrids. Oars on ancient galleys were usually arranged in 15–30 pairs, from monoremes with a single line of oars to triremes with...
    124 KB (16,116 words) - 19:01, 20 October 2024
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    pinnace, but smaller, usually with four or six oars In the age of sail, a ship carried a variety of boats of various sizes and for different purposes...
    14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:08, 11 August 2024
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    three rows of oars, manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on...
    49 KB (6,838 words) - 05:49, 30 September 2024
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    Gondola (redirect from Gondola (boat))
    Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is typically propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not...
    23 KB (2,190 words) - 15:32, 15 August 2024
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    mouth of the Hayes. In some places the Echimamish is so narrow that the oars of the York boats touched the ground on either side. The route included portages...
    8 KB (961 words) - 04:48, 5 December 2023
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    Rafting (section Oars)
    double-bladed paddles or oars to multi-person rafts propelled by single-bladed paddles and steered by a person at the stern, or by the use of oars. Rafting on certain...
    18 KB (2,245 words) - 15:59, 26 September 2024
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    quadrireme was derived from a bireme (warship with two rows of oars) by placing two oarsmen on each oar, the quinquereme from a trireme by placing two oarsmen...
    36 KB (4,711 words) - 00:44, 2 September 2024
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    Ships of ancient Rome (category Ancient boats)
    combat included physically ramming the enemy boats, brushing alongside with oars retracted to break their oars, or attempting to board them and engage in...
    51 KB (8,464 words) - 18:48, 31 August 2024
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    portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only...
    34 KB (1,086 words) - 09:34, 24 August 2024
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    Sweep rowing (redirect from Sweep oar)
    has one oar, usually held with both hands. As each rower has only one oar, the rowers have to be paired so that there are equal numbers of oars on each...
    3 KB (513 words) - 08:00, 6 September 2024
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    four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars, without a coxswain. The crew consists of four rowers, each having one oar. There are two rowers on the...
    4 KB (576 words) - 08:28, 2 June 2023
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    portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only...
    10 KB (389 words) - 21:54, 12 September 2024
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    portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only...
    12 KB (415 words) - 12:22, 24 August 2024
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    portion means that the rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only...
    33 KB (1,045 words) - 12:22, 24 August 2024
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    Balangay (redirect from Biray (boat))
    than a vara in length; their shafts are very well made. The oars are not fastened to the boat for rowing; instead the seated oarsmen ply gently with both...
    42 KB (4,400 words) - 23:05, 17 September 2024
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    of the boat with 12 feet long main rudder-oar (Adanayampu). Sitting two in row along the length of the Boat there will be the oarsmen, They row in rhythm...
    15 KB (1,815 words) - 18:47, 1 September 2024
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    the fact that the boat is most stable when the oars are in the water and least stable when the oars are out of the water. The technique that often accompanies...
    15 KB (1,905 words) - 20:21, 8 October 2024
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