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Regular Season Activities
Beginners Program
Coxswains Program
Regular Season Activities
 During the season, members sign up to row together based on schedule, ability, and mentoring arrangements. During the week, quads, fours, and doubles are most popular. Typically, the shells go out for an hour and a half at 6 a.m. each weekday morning, doubles and quads also go out later in the morning for members whose schedules permit, and often again in the evenings at 6 p.m. On the weekends, the eight goes out along with two or three flights of fours, again starting at 6 a.m. Members are expected to share the responsibility of coxing boats for each other regularly.
Mentoring Program
Because we do not set our boats with a coach, we rely on the mentoring program to help new members get integrated into the rotation, so that they get a chance to row with as many of the other members of the club as possible.
Coaching Program
Coaching for 2008 focused on our Learn to Row program, which introduced a group of 9 beginners to the sport. The participants received coaching twice a week for six weeks in the spring in a sweep eight with follow-up coaching throughout the rest of the season in regular weekend eights and a
Wednesday four; We also offered our members a joint coaching weekend with our sister club, River Rowing Association, in Nyack NY in June, that focused on intermediate sculling skills.
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Beginners
Piermont Rowing Club has always put a high priority on introducing people to the
sport - it's part of our mission as a community-oriented sports organization. We
are proud of the way that we have managed, without access to a full-time coach,
to train a core group of skilled and dedicated rowers who are now passionate
about the sport. Rowing is a wonderful but fairly strenuous sport, particularly wellsuited
for people with a solid base level of fitness and upper body strength, since
rowers must be able to lift boats without injuring themselves and other
teammates, and on-water safety requires that rowers have enough power to
handle boats in all kinds of weather such as wind, and changing current, etc. To
inquire about learning to row with PRC, pleaseclick here.
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Coxswains
Starting in 2005, the club began maintaining a call list of experienced college-aged coxswains who are available to go out with members as needed. This is particularly helpful for novice rowers who need someone experienced in their boat. Members have agreed to pay these young people $25/hour as a standard courtesy.
Each member of the club has a responsibility to learn to cox a shell and to offer their services periodically throughout the season. Seminars are offered to all new members, and to experienced rowers who want to polish their skills. All regular groups of rowers are strongly encouraged to include five members, so that the responsibility can be rotated, and no last minute calls need be made.
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