PITTSFIELD — Once settled into a single-person ocean shell at the Berkshire Rowing and Sculling Society on Onota Lake, I took a deep breath before Lauren Miller launched me out toward the open water.

Instructor: Deb McCabe, of Boulder, the founder of the Longmont Sculling Club. McCabe learned to row in Boston and competitively rowed at Northeastern University. She began with sweep rowing, using ...

The oars glided through the placid water in steady strokes, forcing my thin boat to slide away from the dock. It was going smoothly; I was getting the hang of it. “This is easy,” I thought. “I’m a ...

In the beginning was the river. It served Native Americans as a highway, a food source, and as a social and spiritual nexus for at least 12,000 years. They called the conjoined rivers “pesce tegwe” or ...

Jun. 13—"Keep your hands loose — don't clutch the oars in a death grip. But don't ever let go of them, or you'll flip over." "Bend your knees slightly. Sit up straight." Janis Mink and Tom Sanford are ...

Key Quote: “Being strong doesn’t mean you go fast, being technically savvy doesn’t mean you go fast. You need to learn how to use your strength most efficiently to get the most out of your body, the ...

Frank O’Mahony is up before the sun. By the time the birds sing their good morning music, the Longmont man has already worked up a sweat. There’s something surreal about the water before the world ...

We all remember the childhood reader about the little engine that knew it could. The SAROCA is a boat that knows it can, too. In fact, this schizophrenic little boat thinks it can do everything: row, ...

He walks to the river with a long, pointed tube slung over his shoulder. On a small wooden platform east of Beach Street, Patrick McDonough carefully sits down in what is now an unstable boat, puts ...

A stiff breeze whipped off the rippling, inky water of the Port of West Sacramento, making me shiver in my thin workout shirt and leggings. Eight of us, each with a portion of the gunwale wedged on a ...

Whether they are sculling or sweeping, the Sarasota Crew remains the team to beat. Crew rowers will take aim at their seventh straight crown Saturday at the Florida Scholastic Rowing Association ...