| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780937822968 | | Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications | | Publish Date: 11/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208756328 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 65681 | | Pages: 144 |
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| | | Sculling addict Darryl Strickler will tell you all about the history, design, and especially the use of single rowing sculls (the long, narrow boats with the outrigged oars). He covers builders in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US. Canada builders include Kaschper, Levator, and Hudson, and the appendix includes lines drawings of a Kaschper shell. European builders include Stampfli, Pirsch, Empacher and others. For the US, Pocock from the Seattle area, Garafalo of Worcester, MA, Helmut Shoenbrod of Kennebunkport, ME, and even Graeme King of Putney, VT. It''s also about the boats from the rower/owner perspective. And, there''s an in-depth section on the special oars which propel these boats, including Ciolli, Croker, Sargent & Burton, Piantedosi, Sims of Twickenham, Aylings, Shaw & Tenney, and more. Many many photos, current and historical.
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Writing |  5 | | Content | 5 | | Readability | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Cedar Speeders from the Leaders Thursday, April 30, 2009
Ronald Boi from Kenilworth, Illinois
Part of the attraction is a raw deep-rooted competetive urge; part of it is the delight in doing something one knows one is good and sucessful; part of it is the sublimely satisfying feeling of overall high level of fitness and strength derived from a supremely demanding sport; and part of it is the movement of the boat across the water,,,,, Poetry and power, sweat and harmony, precision timing,tactics and the individual lust to overcome self and adversary,,,,,the comradeship of teamwork, the joint effort producing an almost mystical intimacy when everything is clicking together perfectly. The unity is most sensual in its intensity, and one forgives one's crewmates everything, all their annoying little quirks and habits, for those moments of bliss. There is in short nothing quite like it and those who have not been throught it have missed a life-enhancing experience." And that also describes the love in this book from the author for the craftsman that make these Cedar Speeders Was this review helpful?  
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