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Last Rows
I don't know how many last rows I have had. There was my "last" practice on the Housatonic at the end of my senior year at Yale. It was only two days before my last Eastern Sprints so we were well rested and could relish the full glory of those thousands of strokes of the early season without the fog of training fatigue. A few weeks later I rowed my last Harvard Race, the last time I figured I could really believe we were putting our futures on the line in a boat race. A month later was my last row on an international team, racing in the finals at Henley on the Olympic team that never made it to Moscow. Then I retired. I would never again be so strong, I figured. My body would never again sing in the midst of such perfect harmony. The draw of the boathouse would fade with my muscles. I would move on.

A lot of us do manage to retire, at least for a while. We move far enough from a boathouse or bury ourselves deep enough into jobs or relationships that we can't possibly spare the time to get back on the water. But the sport does not let go so easily. For me, it was not just that my metaphors came from rowing, or that I size people up by where they might sit in a boat, or whether I'd want to be with them in the same boat. The sport was locked into my body. It took only a year of virtual abstinence before I bought an ergometer for my living room. Now, ten years later, I don't row much on the Housatonic - not more than once a year - but I fairly often find myself at odd hours on the Harlem. The long race against Harvard threatens to become an annual alumni event. I used to snicker when I saw men twice my age training for the World Master's Championships. Why didn't they grow up? I realise now that rowing is one of those special old friends who will welcome back at any time and tell you something new and wonderful.

If there is any shame in rowing it is the tendency to be protective of our small community of men and women. Rowing faces no threat of commercialisation. The sport is too difficult to learn, and it is what we learn from it that draws us together. We are an elite group, but not an elitist group, with a colourful heritage created by watermen and gentlemen, scholars and scoundrels.

Stephen Kiesling

 

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Australia
ROWPERFECT Australia
4 Moore Rd
Harbord NSW 2096
Australia
Tel +(61) 2 9939 9777
Fax +(61) 2 9939 5572
Mob 0417 782 655
Email
Website http://www.rowperfect.com.au/
Mark and Gill Campbell

Austria / Österreich
Fritz Kutmon
Fröhlerweg 7
4040 Linz
Österreich
Tel/Mobil +(43) 664 33 62 102
Tel/Fax +(43) 732 75 73 54
Email f.kutmon@magnet.at

Canada
Bob Stubbs
RR1, S-50, C-17
Osoyoos, B.C. V0H 1V0
Canada
Tel +(250) 495 4446
Fax +(250) 495 5304
Email stubbies@direct.ca

Czech Republic and Slovakia
Michal Vabroušek
Sosnovecka 580/6
Praha 8
181 00
Czech Republic
Tel. (mobil) +(420) 603 478 496
Fax. +(420) 2 33551 369
E-mail michal@vabrousek.cz
Website http://michal.vabrousek.cz/

Germany / Deutschland
ROWPERFECT Deutschland
Am Wolfshof 7
D-53604 Bad Honnef
Deutschland
Tel/Fax +(49) 02224 967 501
Tel (Handy)+(49) 0179 7648 311
Email coldewey.uwe@gmx.de
Uwe Coldewey

Ireland
Rowperfect Ireland
70 Whitworth Road
Dublin 9
Ireland
Tel +(353) 1 830 4600
Fax +(353) 87 240 2721
Email gerfar@yahoo.co.uk
Gerry Farrell

Japan
StrokeOar Japan Corp.
2161-19 Oishi, Kawaguchiko-Cho
Minamitsuru-Gun, Yamanashi Pref.
401-03 Japan
Tel +(81) 555-76-8562
Fax +(81) 555-76-8560
Email kura@strokeoar.co.jp
Website www.strokeoar.co.jp
Tetsuji Kuramoto

Netherlands / Nederland
Heeres Boatservice
Verlengde Hoogravenseweg 13
3525 BB Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax +(31) (0)30 280 5068
Mobiel +(31) (0)6 533 540 07
Email info@heeresboatservice.nl
Website http://www.heeresboatservice.nl
Rob Heeres

Support points for the Netherlands
JoRoW Watersporten
Valkenkamp 758
3607 MX Maarssen
The Netherlands
Tel +(31) (0)346 679 233
Fax +(31) (0)346 679 244
Mobiel +(31) (0)6 557 122 89
Email info@jorow.nl
Website www.jorow.nl
Jorg Santen

New Zealand and South East Asia
ROWPERFECT Australasia
14 Croydon Road
Mount Eden
Auckland
New Zealand
Tel +(64) 9 623 1095
Fax +(64) 9 302 2437
Email Peter.Mills@image-centre.com
Peter Mills

Norway / Norge
CLARK SYSTEMS
Tel: +(47) 9900 2229
Website www.clarksystems.no
Email post@clarksystems.no
Ernie Clark

Spain / España
ROWPERFECT Spain
C/ Ronda Fortià
26-2°-2A
18720 Banyoles-Girona
España
Tel+(34) 972 57 17 38
Movil +(34) 617 07 13 86
Website www.rowperfectspain.com
EMail xaviboix@rowperfectspain.com
Xavi Boix

Switzerland / Suisse / Schweiz
Stämpfli Racing Boats AG
Seestrasse 497
8038 Zürich
Schweiz
Tel +(41) 1 482 99 44
Fax +(41) 1 482 05 03
Melchior Bürgin

United Kingdom
ROWPERFECT UK (Ltd)
7 Vicarage Close
Waterbeach
Cambridge CB5 9QG

Tel +(44) (0) 7970 734330 Rebecca Caroe
Service Tel. +(44) (0) 7970 266180 Grant Craies
Email info@rowperfect.co.uk
Website http://www.rowperfect.co.uk/

George Sims Racing Boats
PO Box 3024
Goring
West Sussex
BN12 6RT
Tel +(44) 1903 248 044
Fax +(44) 1903 248 009
Email georgesims@racingboats.demon.co.uk
Website http://www.racingboats.demon.co.uk
Andrew Sims

USA
Durham Boat Company Inc.
220 Newmarket Rd.,
Durham, NH 03824
Tel +(1) 603-659 7575
Fax +(1) 603-659 2548
Email cfuerst@cris.com
Website http://www.durhamboat.com
Coleen Fuerst and Jim Dreher

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