Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull, its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler.[1]
Sculling is distinguished from sweep rowing, whereby each boat crew member employs an oar, complemented by another crew member on the opposite side with an oar, usually with each pulling it with two hands and from stern sculling, which uses an oar to propel a vessel with side-to-side movements from the stern.[2][3]
- ^ Woodgate, Walter Bradford (1874). Oars and Sculls. J. Watson.
- ^ Stevens, Arthur Wesselhoeft (1906). Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep. New York: Little, Brown, & Co. p. 90.
- ^ Mcgrail, Sean (11 June 2014). Ancient Boats in North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-88238-1.