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A Rowing Club Manager's Checklist It's that time of year when the northern hemisphere starts winter training and the southern hemisphere schools begin their summer programme.  Collaborating with coach Rebecca Caroe of Rowperfect, we have pulled together a check list of things to do for a rowing club at the start of the season: Sweep out the boathouse - dusty and dirty it is and spick and span it will be Put away those riggers lying on the floor between the boat racks.  Maybe get a hanging rack for wing riggers. Service

During times of financial instability we know one thought is at the fore-front of all rowing club manager's minds: how do we make money and keep our club afloat!?  Well we have a very simple solution for you, and it breathes fire.  We're talking dragon boats. Dragon What? Firmly established in the boating world and growing with popularity, dragon boats are seen far beyond the Hong Kong market.  They're visually attractive vessels propelled by the power of 22 members.  This makes them a fantastic

With technology's exponential growth rate, it's no surprise that you can find almost anything online these days. As a rower, club manager, coach, or cox, this can be used to your advantage.  We've compiled a list of free online tools that can assist rowers with training sessions, recording ergo scores and creating email group listings for coaches, coxes and the crew. Scheduling A handy tool for getting the team together is a simple online scheduling system,doodle, where you create an event, set

Organising athletes can be a major job, and a major pain, but we're going to help make it a little bit easier for you. Structure is everything, and it all starts with a few simple lists. See our own Rowing Athletes list below. It's simple and user friendly, and has everything you need to stay on top of things. The Specifics Under 'Contact Me' you should outline specific times of the week and day that members can get in touch with you because

We know your team has expensive rowing equipment, and despite the chummy atmosphere of rowers at regattas, races and practices, you want to keep it safe.  Welcome to the SSRS Security box, where you can protect and recharge yourelectronic rowing equipment. You can keep your Nielsen Kellerman (NK) coxboxes safe and charged with 10 custom-designed spaces manufactured just for this equipment.  If you don't shop NK you can get your storage box with one flat tray which also works for speed coaches, OR take advantage of

Nothing puts a damper on our favourite sport of rowing like common accidents on and off the water. Do any of these scenarios sound all-too-familiar? Slipping in water puddling off boats fresh from the river Dropping boats and fracturing them Collisions on the water between boats (watch where you're going!) Collisions on the water with stationary objects - trees / banks / poles - it happens! Let's jump straight into avoiding the mishaps Drying off your boat once you get out of the water is not

Are you worried about keeping rowing club members on board to keep your club finances from springing leaks?  Well we have a few tricks for you to keep up your sleeve that should help pay for the necessities, and all YOU have to do is start thinking small, because it's little bits of change that can make the difference. Regatta fees - When planning to race, within the regatta entry fee you can charge any person wanting to put their behind in one

Guest Post by Barrie Robinson Part of our Club Management series - because having a good rowing website is essential to having a good rowing club. As the developer and manufacturer of the OarRATER stroke rate stopwatch I have visited literally hundreds of web sites of universities, colleges, high schools and clubs as well as other organisations.  In a previous life I wrote a column in a computer magazine and I did a short series on web sites and their failings.  So, naturally, I

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Step 5 Options, Specifications and Features The days of making the man fit the boat are long gone, these days the boat and most other rowing equipment is made to fit the rower, so as you can guess, there are a lot of options. When you start looking at all the available options, you may get overwhelmed, so the best thing to do is keep it simple and ask advice. Specifications are the characteristics of a piece of equipment. Not

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Purchasing Rowing Equipment. Read Part 1 Read Part 3 Step 3 Money, and How Much? Purchasing rowing equipment can leave a meteor sized dent in your wallet. Depending on what you want/need to buy, you could be looking at a massive amount of money. For instance an elite-level men's eight used to compete at the World Rowing Championships may cost between $25,000 and $40,000, and that's just for the shell. Then there are the electronics, oars,