Scouting, Volume 71, Number 2, March-April 1983 Page: 21
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ROW,ROW,ROW YOUR BOAT
Sculling is perhaps the ultimate in team
sports. Each stroke depends on the precise
coordination of eight individuals.
(Top) The morning
sun breaks over the
horizon as the boy's
team begins its 7
A.M., workout on
San Francisco's Lake
Merced. (Bottom)
Post 330's girl's
team reached the
final round of last
summer's Women's
National Rowing
Association
Championships in
Connecticut.
BY RICHARD TRUBO
Photographs by Gene Daniels
ALTHOUGH THE San Francisco
air temperature had barely reached 40
degrees, the Explorers of sculling
Post 330 were nevertheless bathed in
perspiration. They were nearing the
completion of their second 1,500-
meter crossing of Lake Merced that
morning, and the fatigue and pain had
long ago become unbearable for each
of the boys and girls in the eight-
oarsman racing shells.
Gliding across the lake's azure-blue
water at a pace of about 35-strokes
per minute, the Explorers would later
recall the weariness that had en-
veloped their bodies from almost the
beginning of their rigorous workout.
The torturous pain had started in
their legs, but quickly it assaulted
their lungs, back, arms, and wrists as
well. Even so, their concentration
was still so keen that they continued
to maneuver their 15-pound wooden
oars with astonishing precision,
hardly causing an unnecessary ripple
in the lake's calm surface.
"You're exhausted and burnt out
not long after you start," says Pat
Stroth, the 17-year-old captain of the
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