Word: oar
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catch: refers to the point at which the oar breaks the water. Ideally, the blade is dropped vertically in at this point, with minimal splash. The catch starts the stroke...
...Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...crew members affectionately refer to it, is a form of off-the-water torture that the Chinese cannot take credit for. It looks like the tanks, but with not only no sunsets, but also no water, and no rowers. Except, of course, you. Just you, and the oar handle, a timer ticking the slowest seconds in Cambridge, if not the world, and a meter to let you know how you're doing...
...variety of reason, a variety of women took a sweatsuit, an oar, and a rigorous program of exercise, and began the journey towards competition on the river early this fall. The journey starts with novice crew...
...Radcliffe shell, manned by Ruth Colker, Diane Hickman, Wicki Royden, Robin Lothrup, and coxswain Patty Glovsky, took the race by two seconds despite a collision with another shell which cost them half on oar, and a tangle with a buoy that left them at a momentary near-standstill...