Rowing on a puddle in the Salish Sea

A morning spent rowing on Buntzen Reservoir in Anmore, near Vancouver BC Canada. July 28 2010.

A nice easy row, averaging about 17 strokes a minute. I occasionally row at about 24. But not for too long.

A few more words about this row are on the site
http://rowingforpleasure.blogspot.com/2010/08/smuggerooni.html

The boat, "MIracle," is a Whitehall Spirit Solo14, "The Mountain Bike of the Sea," set up for Slide-Seat Rowing using 9.5 ft carbon-fibre oars. It is completely decked, so it has a lot of flotation.

Designed and manufactured in Victoria BC Canada, by Whitehall Rowing and Sail. The boat's hull speed is about 5 knots, or about 9 km/hr. It is quick, as you can see from the video. Not as quick as a racing or ocean shell, but with this hull I can take along my lunch, camera, tripod, water, spare shoes and jacket, extra paddle, shorter oars for rough water, boat-hook, bicycle, tent, an assortment of safety gear, and a passenger or two.

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• outdoors
• tourism
• Rowing
• exercise
• scenery
• boats
• Vancity
• health
• British Columbia
• Buntzen Lake
• Anmore

[verfugbarkite]

That is beautiful, really envy this. Mind you your boat's making a hell of a racket.

[rgyatso]

@verfugbarkite Thank you. Yes, the boat is a bit noisy, It definitely is noisier than a solid-wood build. The oars clunk when they are feathered, and I think after this outing I cleaned and ran some silicon grease on the wheel axles of the slide-seat, there is a squeak there, I think.

The boat at speed also will chatter while going over a bit of wind chop.

The wind noise in the camera microphone is causing a bunch of burbling. I have been thinking of taping it partially over or something.

[spymaine89]

great spot. enjoy

[Whitehallrow]

Wow! what a great rowing video - the scenery is as pristine as it gets! Great example of open water slide seat rowing....