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These athletes are not able to utilise a sliding seat when rowing.

They rowed with cold rainwater running down their backs, pooling in the bottom of the boat, and sloshing back and forth under their sliding seats.

Take, for instance, the case of a certain oarsman who found the dinner forms rather too rigid after his first day on sliding seats.

Unfortunately it so happens that sliding seats give so much extra power that even bad sliding à la Boyd produces more pace than good fixed-seat rowing.

But I prefer to leave the general subject of combined rowing, whether in eights or fours, to a later chapter, while I attempt to explain the mysteries and difficulties of the sliding seat.