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.

If you are new to the sport of rowing, this Viewer’s Guide will give you the basics, beginning with the types of rowing and equipment. Sculling is the type of rowing in which athletes use two oars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Lake Hall in northeast Tallahassee, morning sunlight is lacing its way through the silhouettes of trees. Nearby on the bank, proceeding toward a long dock, come a mostly silent parade of men and ...

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 ...