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the only vehicle that makes you face away from where you're going
means A small boat propelled by a person pulling on oars, sitting with their back to the direction of travel.
from A plain compound of "row" and "boat," both old workhorses of English. "Row," meaning to move a boat with oars, traces back to Old English rowan and shares deep roots with other Germanic seafaring words — a cousin, distantly, of Latin remus, "oar." "Boat" likewise comes from Old English bat. Bolt them together and you get exactly what it says: a boat you row, no metaphor required.
- backward design
- Rowers stare at their wake, not the destination
- ancient tech
- Oared boats predate the wheel by millennia
- viking proof
- Longships crossed oceans powered purely by arms
- olympic sport
- Rowing has featured in nearly every modern Games
- oar leverage
- Each pull moves water far heavier than you
puffin island rowboat race — annual welsh competition rowing around puffin island off anglesey since 1975
schuylkill river regatta — philadelphia's oldest sporting event (1835) featuring competitive rowing including rowboat classes
doggett's coat and badge — thames rowboat race for watermen since 1716, oldest continuously held rowing competition