Requirements June 1972 until August 1982

1. Before doing other requirements, swim 100 yards as follows: 75 yards with any strokes. Then 25 yards on your back using an easy resting stroke. Then rest by floating as still as you can for 1 minute.

2. Do the following correctly:

(a) Launch and land a rowboat from and to shore.

(b) Bring a rowboat alongside a dock. Help a passenger into it. Row 50 feet, stop, pivot, and come back to the dock. Help the passenger from the boat.

(c) Tie a rowboat to a dock using: (1) A clove hitch. (2) Round turn and two half hitches. (3) A bowline. (4) A hitching tie or mooring hitch.

3. Do the following with another person in the stern:

(a) Row in a straight line for a quarter mile. Stop, make a pivot turn, and return to the starting point. If a quarter-mile straight course is not available, shorter courses may be used. Row back and forth in a straight line until a quarter mile has been covered.

(b) Backwater in a straight line 200 yards. Make a turn under way still backing water. Return to the starting point.

(c) Change places with your passenger. Show sculling in good form for 25 yards. Turn under way, and return to starting point.

4. Alone, or with one other person who is a swimmer, tip over a rowboat. Turn it right side up, get in, and paddle 10 yards with your hands or an oar. Tell why you should stay with a swamped boat.

5. Alone in a rowboat push off from shore or dock. Row 25 yards to a swimmer. Turn the boat so that the swimmer may hold onto the stern. Tow him to shore.

6. Show and explain the proper use of anchors for rowboats.

7. Describe the following:

(a) Dory, dory skiff, dinghy, punt, pram.

(b) Four common boatbuilding materials. Give some good and bad points of each.

(c) Two of the following rowlocks: Tholepin, box rowlock, ring rowlock, open top rowlock. Tell why pin-type rowlocks are not recommended.

8. Explain the advantages of feathering oars while rowing.

Answer the following questions:

(a) How would you handle a rowboat if caught in a storm?

(b) How would you figure the number of pounds that might be carried under normal conditions in any given boat under oars?

(c) How would you properly fit out a rowboat, maintain and care for it during the boating season? How would you prepare and store it for winter season?