A skilled oarsman or woman needs to become one with the boat and understand how it moves. "Looked at one way, a racing shell is a machine with a narrowly defined purpose: to enable a number of ...

A Tacoma rower’s boat got the ‘seal’ of approval last week. On Feb. 6, Todd Silver took his single-rower Pocock racing shell out for a spin on the Thea Foss Waterway. While paddling around ...