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Boating Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cause to occur or operate at the same time or rate. | Synchronized |
| The front of the shell | Bow |
| The rear of the shell. | Stern |
| The steerman of a boat who also directs the speed and rhythm of the rowers. | Coxswain |
| Command that tells the rowers to hold oars in the water to slow them down. | Hold Water |
| a rower with the oar on starboard or right side of the sweep boat. | Starboard |
| A boat race or series of boat races. | Regatta |
| Proper name for oars. | Sculls |
| the place where a ship or boat is secured. | Moorage |
| Slanting or sloping, not straight forward or direct. | Oblique |
| flat piece of metal or plastic that helps stabilize the boat | Skeg |
| This term tells the rowers to go at full force. | Power Ten |
| the perfect, simultaneous, and harmonious movement of all nine rowers to achieve a state called | Swing |
| means to take five strokes at an easier, lower pressure pace. | Relax 5 |