Rowing Equipment

SSRS facilitated installation of a Connect A Dock sea plane pontoon at the Australian National Museum. The Director of Space Saver Rowing Systems is excited two pair up two of his biggest passions – Aviation & Water usage. The National Capital Authority.

Quick Release Wing Riggers & SSRS – A Winning Combo

There is often a substantial opportunity cost associated with removing conventional wing riggers in order to maximize the storage space in the boathouse. Many athletes and crews will argue the time taken to dismantle each boat after the session comes at a high price for the amount of space gained.

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How do you Store Rowing Oars? – Part II

Although we are totally biased with regard to who has the best rowing storage solutions, we wanted to know how other clubs managed their boathouse oar storage. In our previous post, we saw a diverse range of horizontal storage applications (Read Part I here). In part II, we will focus

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How do you Store your Oars? – Part I

Although we are totally biased with regard to who has the best rowing storage solutions, we wanted to know how other clubs manage their boathouse oar storage. Aside from such a diverse range of methods, we discovered some particularly innovative solutions from within our community. We prefer to store our

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Can you carry a single scull on a roof rack?

Do you know of any good guidelines for carrying sculling boats on the roof of cars with/ without a full sculling rack?  There has been an incident at our club as the bowball was tied down to the bumper and the strap worked loose and came undone and then got

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Get to know SSRS

This week, the team at Rowperfect had a chance to catch up with the founder and director of Space Saver Rowing Systems (SSRS), Douglas Lumsden. He shared with us what has been happening recently with SSRS, as well as reflecting back on where the company has come from and what

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An Introduction to Rowing Boat Rigging Maintenance

It\’s your first time running a maintenance check on your shell, but you are new to rowing and don\’t quite understand what everything is, or does yet.  Let Space Saver teach you rowing boat maintenance in our simple guide. The coach isn\’t expecting you to pull the boat apart and

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Add a splash of colour to your SSRS equipment

Do the standard red shade of SSRS oar racks clash terribly with your club colours? Have you been searching aimlessly for a paint colour that will match perfectly with your lavender purple and tumeric yellow oar blades? Space Saver Rowing Systems feel your pain. That\’s why we have taken the time to bring you this super handy RAL

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Spread your wing [riggers]!

If your rowing club has any number of wing rigger boats, you\’ll be familiar with the struggle of fitting multiple boats into the available boathouse space. If you use quick-release wing riggers and put two singles or doubles on a rack, then storing the riggers is your new problem.  Their burly dimensions

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On the Road Again – A guide to Driving Trailers

Are we there yet?? That is the second worst question you can ask on a trailer drive, the first is \”What state do you think the other half of the boat is in?\”.  Some reading this may have plentiful experience in driving large things long distances and on winding roads,

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Old Dog, New Tricks: The Erg \”Ab Roller\”

  [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=\”yes\” overflow=\”visible\”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=\”1_1\” background_position=\”left top\” background_color=\”\” border_size=\”\” border_color=\”\” border_style=\”solid\” spacing=\”yes\” background_image=\”\” background_repeat=\”no-repeat\” padding=\”\” margin_top=\”0px\” margin_bottom=\”0px\” class=\”\” id=\”\” animation_type=\”\” animation_speed=\”0.3\” animation_direction=\”left\” hide_on_mobile=\”no\” center_content=\”no\” min_height=\”none\”] If you ever thought an ergometer was just for rowing, think again! One rowing club (and probably countless other innovative individuals) have adapted the standard

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