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Post by Admin on Nov 12, 2013 10:38:38 GMT
According to some rowing coaches the pin position is the most important element of boat rigging. Given that an average club can have rowers from 6' 4" to 5' 4" how can the pins be positioned to suit such a reach difference ? Is there a happy medium that new clubs can adopt as a starting point. In a couple of boats that I have rowed in recently the pins seemed a bit too near for my liking, particularly the stroke pin which on our boat we have moved two inches further astern than the others. With boats having different size oars it may be impossible to give any definite answer to this question but is there any formula that can be applied to this problem of pin position or failing that some general rule of thumb.
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Post by seanie on Dec 27, 2013 23:10:22 GMT
Don't think there's an easy answer. In sliding seat rowing there's an optimum arc of about 90 degrees, approximately a 60 degree catch and a 30 degree finish. You can't get that kind of angle with our fixed seat boats. Depending on the length of the oar you're maybe looking at 45-65 degrees overall. The oar is at it's most effective when it's closest to perpendicular, and you don't want too long a finish, however how to split that between catch and finish I'm not sure. We did move the pin positions closer to the rowers on Jenny Skylark prior to the World Championships. Watching our boats from an umpire boat at one regatta I'd noticed that some of our rowers were getting a larger finish than catch and that didn't seem right. However, people also sit differently. At stroke, with my little short legs, I pretty much sit off the front edge of a seat so I can reach the footrests so I might be sitting 6" closer to the pin than someone else.
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shug
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Post by shug on Mar 29, 2014 17:12:25 GMT
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