I don't want to get into the usefulness of boat towing, but last year I saw some of the Olympic athletes being towed behind the coach's launch while rowing. What I did not see is how they were attaching the tow rope to the boats. Any ideas? The bow clip?
"oarsman" <oarsman101@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1111001789.272395.306250@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...> I don't want to get into the usefulness of boat towing, but last year> I saw some of the Olympic athletes being towed behind the coach's> launch while rowing. What I did not see is how they were attaching the> tow rope to the boats. Any ideas? The bow clip?
Phil wrote:> You possibly get a similar effect having 1/2 the boat at a different> pressure? Eg. bow 4 light / stern 4 firm - quite a common exercise.
That's a different effect.
The object of the exercise is to get a very quick connection. The boat is pulled along at speeds in excess of the race speed. A slow blade entry or catch ( 2 different entities in my mind) and you'll miss a lot of water.
at split of 1:10 to 1:20 one need to be very, very fast at the catch. I should have mentioned I saw this being done on the doubles. I am thinking about it in my single and double.
Our coach once towed the 4- with his speedboat too. And the way he attached it was by attaching multiple ropes tied to key points in the boat, such as riggers etc... (i cannot quite remember the rest, but the gist was the stronger parts of the boat) and all the ropes he joined into two ropes, which he attached to either side of the speed boat...
You should have seen them rate with that, their catches were soo fast!
Hope this helps, Cheers, Luke
oarsman wrote:> at split of 1:10 to 1:20 one need to be very, very fast at the catch.> I should have mentioned I saw this being done on the doubles. I am> thinking about it in my single and double.
