Make It Last Forever! 13 Steps To Help Your Rowing Equipment Last An Eternity: Rowing Workbook, #3

By Michael Davenport

This 2nd edition of Make It Last Forever! 13 Steps To Helping Your Rowing Equipment Last An Eternity has been completely updated to help you get the most you can out of your equipment.

 

The equipment you use in rowing can be expensive. Make It Last Forever shows you how to extend the life of your equipment, and make the most of your purchase, with minimum hassle. Written by expert rowing coach Mike Davenport, Ed.D, Make It Last Forever is for anyone who deals with rowing equipment, from rower to coach to boatman.

 

Make It Last Forever – Even When Time Is Tight

 

The Make It Last Forever workbook is focused and full of professional  advice, with tips, tricks and actions anyone can do. Completely rewritten, there are 13 simple steps you can take to help you extend the life of your equipment. This printed version includes a through index to help you find what you need—fast.

You'll learn…

• The importance of cleaning your hull, and how to do it
• Discover the do's and dont's of waxing
• Is wet sanding the hull right for you
• The negatives about lubrication
• How to properly tighten your fasteners
• Why you should not wait to fix broken parts
• Why you really do need insurance

Make It Last Forever gives you a plan for getting more from the life of your equipment. And includes recommend actions to take daily, weekly, annually.

Find out what steps to take, what steps to avoid so you'll spend more time on the water more, and less time in the repair bay. You'll get more from your purchase, and you'll feel better rowing in equipment you can be proud of.

 

Make Your Rowing Life Easier, Save Money, Look Good!

 

New rowing equipment should last years-and-years, or longer. Old equipment can be very competitive. Learn the plan to help make it happen.

Make It Last Forever will help you are your equipment look like a superstar!

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Davenport
• Release date: Aug 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781080385119

Michael Davenport

Mike Davenport has had a 35-year collegiate coaching career, along with national team and Olympic team experience. He has learned valuable lessons on what to do—and what not to do—as a coach. Mike is dedicated to teaching the smart ways to avoid hardships, sidestep stress, and be the successful sports coach people want to be. He has been creating content for coaches for over 25 years. He currently lives in Maryland with his family. He responds to email when he can and loves connecting with coaches from all sports.

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D i s c l a i m e r

This workbook is designed to provide information in regard to the subject of rowing, rowing equipment, and sport. It suggests many actions to take; however, these actions are not and cannot be exhaustive of all necessary actions.

It is not the intent of this workbook to provide all the information that is available concerning rowing and rowing equipment. Every effort has been made to make this workbook as complete and as accurate as possible. However, there may be mistakes, both typographical and in content. Do not rely solely on this product for guidance.

The authors, advisors, and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this report.

The authors, advisors, and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this workbook.

How Long Should Your Equipment Last?

A simple question for you, how long should new rowing equipment last? Three years? Five years? Longer? And what about your used equipment—is it time to get rid of it?

Barring any unforeseen tragedies like fire, theft, or a major collision, it’s reasonable to expect brand-new rowing equipment to last 15 to 20 years.

That’s a lot of hard strokes if you’re an average rower—about one million. And that’s also a lot of dockings, trips to away races, and wear-and-tear.

Should you be an optimist and expect your rowing equipment to last that long? Absolutely, and with a little-tender-loving care, and using the following advice, your equipment might just last forever.

You don’t need to be a mechanical genius to get your rowing equipment to last an eternity (and in rowing 20 years is an eternity), but you will find that some foresight can be very helpful.

To assist you I’ve put together this workbook, and in doing so I talked to several experts who have been around rowing for quite some time. With their insight, combined with a little elbow grease here, a little money there, and some planning on your part, you can add years to your equipment’s life.

Before we go any further I want to address one question that I hear all the time from coaches: Can older equipment be fast?

Can Old Be Fast?

I will let the following story answer that question. It was told to me by my mentor Allen Rosenberg, who coached the 1964 U.S. men’s eight to Olympic Gold:

In 1962, a Russian crew came to Philadelphia to race in the People’s Regatta. In need of a boat, their American guests arranged for them to pick any boat out of all the boathouses along Boathouse Row. They picked one, raced, and won—beating Vesper, several college crews, and the Canadian National Team.

What makes this interesting is that the Vesper boat they beat was the forerunner of the American eight that won the Olympic gold in 1964.

What makes this even more interesting is that the boat the Russians selected and rowed was built in 1947, making it fifteen years old...and it had spent almost all of those fifteen years on the racks.

Rosenberg, who was involved in coaching of the Vesper eight told me this:

The Russians proved that day that old boats can win races.

Another point about older equipment—although there have been small changes in rowing equipment over the years, there have been few, if any, major changes in the equipment over the past one hundred years.

For instance, the hull design of the eight rowed in the men’s events of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic games is very similar to the hull of the men’s eight that will be rowed in the men’s events of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.

Sure, there have been changes, but not BIG changes.

Now looking ahead, this workbook focuses on the most common types of rowing equipment and the steps you can take to make them last. (And keep them fast.)

Almost all are very simple steps and actions involving nothing more than common sense, some elbow grease, and a desire to keep the equipment going strong, for long.

So now that we’ve got that out of the way, it’s time to discuss something basic, and oh-so important...

What Is Rowing Equipment?

We sure use a lot of equipment