sliding seat

They are able to use a sliding seat in their boats."

Once in the boat, I sit on a sliding seat, facing the stern.

This was the first Championship race rowed on sliding seats.

(4) the sliding seat which also allowed for more oar movement.

In 1873 the rower's sliding seat was tested extensively for The Field.

Also, in the UK, the sliding seat position closest to the boat's bow.

The boat can be fitted with either a fixed or a sliding seat and outriggers for racing.

A sliding seat, contoured to fit your bottom so you don't slide about, is essential.

Hollow rails upon which a rower or sculler's sliding seat will roll.

Racing boats also have sliding seats to allow the use of the legs in addition to the body to apply power to the oar.

Athletes are able to use a sliding seat and have function in their legs, trunks and arms to row.

Sometimes sliding seats are used to enable the rower to use the leg muscles, substantially increasing the power available.

In 1901 clinker outrigged eights with sliding seats were used.

The rowers face backwards on sliding seats, which enable them to employ leg strength at the drive of the stroke.

Most of these models have the characteristic sliding seat typical of competitive on-the-water boats.

No sliding seats or out-riggers are accepted.

Rowed with standard boats and sliding seats.

In many of the earliest races inside Australia, there were two classes: fixed seats and sliding seats.

In the summer of 1857, Babcock invented the tracked sliding seat for his sculling boat and perfected it by 1870.

Stability is achieved with a sliding seat on which the single crew member sits, effectively controlling the boat from 'outside'.

It is outfitted with long oars, outriggers to hold the oarlocks away from the boat, and sliding seats.

This eventually led to the modern sliding seat, mounted on rollers, which allows nearly frictionless movement of the rower's body.

In the period 1898-1900 the race was competed for in best boat outrigger fours with sliding seats.

Competitive sliding seat coastal rowing has taken place on the South coast of England since the late 19th century.

The sliding seat made possible a stroke that uses most of the major muscle groups in the body without putting undue strain on any of them.