Feathering

Feathering is an ON-WATER skill: between strokes you rotate the oar about 90 degrees so the blade lies flat (parallel) to the water during the recovery — reducing wind drag and avoiding catching the water — then 'square' it back to vertical just before the catch. It's a wrist/forearm and finger skill (in sculling…

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