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We will also have an assortment on brand new sculls on sales at the HOCR as well as a sweep special on our Apex 52 and Apex 55 oar. For details on our fall, HOCR Sweep and Scull Specials go to Oar Specials and Used Boat List. We also have Used Boats on that list including the Rec-Racers in two sizes. We are going to be selling many of our older Rec-Racer in the coming months so that by next spring our club will have only have Rec-Racer that have been built in the last year. For more information on the Rec-Racers see this link. We will also have our usual assortment of rowing accessories along with a RP3 Rowing Simulator, if weather permits. We do have a several units left. So if you would like to pick up a unit at our booth, call to confirm your purchase by Friday before 5pm and save on shipping.
 
 For more information on the latest enhancements available on the Dreher Tanks, see the Dreher Indoor Rowing Facility Page.
Jean is a graduate of Cornell University where she majored in History and rowed on the crew. Upon graduation, she worked for us briefly prior to working at Barclays Bank in DE. She returned to Durham Boat Company after two years in the banking industry to become our leader in carbon parts layup. Jean also was one our DBC Sculling School coaches. After about 8 years in that capacity she got married and had three children. While raising her family, she was a part-time employee doing Office Support Activities. Prior to college, Jean rowed for the Durham Boat Club/Oyster River H.S. forfour years and in her junior year stroked the USA 4x at Junior Worlds in France. She won the 2x and 4+ events at Canadian Scholastics, NEIRA in the 4+, the Int. Women’s 4x at the Canadian Henley and numerous Jr. National Championships and also LW 4x event at Elite Nationals. She has also won the Youth 4+ (under 20 years old) at the HOCR twice. We are very happy to have Jean join our Sales and Marketing Team. She comes to the position with a thorough knowledge of our products and their functionality as well as how they are made. Her rowing, coaching and manufacturing experience will provide a valuable resource to our customers. Jean's interests outside of her family and rowing include: Nordic Skiing, Gardening, Birding, Baking and Reading.
 As owner of CeTaQ Americas, Michael is a 16-year electronics industry professional with a BS degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology with a specialization in electronics manufacturing. Mike has also earned AS degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology from New Hampshire Technical Institute. His career includes experience at the TRW Automotive Electronics Group as a Manufacturing Engineer; the Eastman Kodak Company as a Process/Quality Supervisor and as a SMT Process Engineer, where he completed Kodak's Six Sigma Quality Black Belt Training program, and at Speedline Technologies as a Senior Applications Engineer and Sales Engineer. At CeTaQ Americas, his main emphasis has been to integrate and provide state of the art measurement technology for equipment and process capability analysis. As a professional solutions provider to the electronics industry, CeTaQ Americas offers independent and objective 3rd party test methods for evaluating SMT machine capability, bringing to market a new level of sophistication for the independent comparison of SMT production equipment. We are very happy to have Michael join our Sales and Marketing Team to compliment our existing OEM, Domestic and International Sales and Marketing effort.
Enhanced Rec-Racers: Durham Boat Company, Inc. is pleased to announce it is now manufacturing its Carbon Rec-Racers (Ultra Shells) in the USA. We are in production and are taking orders for the all-carbon Rec-Racers in two sizes. The hulls are being made in ME, while we make the Dreher Sculls and carbon rigging components in Durham, NH. The fit and finish has never been better. We offer our new Universal RXT foot plate and the personal snap-in shoes as an option. For more information see our web site: DBC Rec-Racers. Also if you want to see the new Rec-Racer in action go to the very bottom of this page and click the Facebook logo and you can view a video of Rec-Racer II.
 E-H Sculling Oar Design: This is our next generation of Aero oars. The E-H Sculling oar, with elliptical shape shaft and a new hydrodynamic blade shape is designed to improve speed both on both the recovery and during the initial part of the drive. The new hydrodynamic blade has been tested for two years. We elected to install it on our aerodynamic shaft that can be economically produced and also offered in the high modulus construction (i.e., called the E-HX). For more information see: Sculls Link: FAQ Facts on E-H Sculls as compared with the Aero and other oars.
 Foot Stretcher Design: We came out with the Universal RXT Shoe Plate: This is the Universal Rowing Cross Training Shoe Plate that will fit on many manufacturers boats. The shoe price depends on the stiffness, weight and comfort of the shoe selected, can used by a wide range of skilled rowers with the shoe plate economically priced. The key to this system is that the shoe does not stay with the boat. It is something that the rower chooses and can use on a daily basis for rowing or cross training. The shoe plate has a 10-degree toe-to-heel included angle to allow better power transmission throughout the drive. The shoe snaps into stainless steel spring clips mounted to each side of the shoe on the shoe plate which can be easily released, but are not intended for self-releasing from the boat and relies on the heel tie down per USRA and FISA regulations. The shoes can also be fitted with Velcro straps. The shoe plate is compatible with several models of Adidas and K-Swiss shoes that allow for the attachment member that is added to the shoes, which in turn provides side mounting of the shoes to the shoe plate. The shoe performance is not adversely affected by the addition of this attachment member because it cannot be felt during rowing, walking or running, nor does it interfere with the bottom of the shoe in any way. See one of the lighter weight Adidas models that is compatible with The Universal RXT Shoe plate on a Dreher Carbon Foot Stretcher Frame.
 More information can be found on the Dreher Carbon Foot Stretchers Link. Oarlock Swivel Design: We came up with a new use for a swivel concept that dates backs to antiquity in the Greeks Triremes, where the Greek rowers rowed behind the pin to gain a mechanical advantage. We postulated that this type of swivel might work well to change the dynamics in the rowing tank to make the power application more like that which is experienced in a boat especially at the finish. We have also tried it in the boat and for some people depending how they row, have seen some advantage.
The MVP or Modern Variable Power Swivel that allows handle acceleration toward the finish that occurs naturally in the boat due the boat acceleration from catch through release. This does not occur in a tank, however, due to much greater mass of water rotating at a constant speed. We have confirmed that this new swivel performs as intended by equipping it with Force Measurement sensors in the tank. This MVP Swivel goes along with other tank enhancements that came out in 2011 to improve the tank load and water circulation. For more information on the other enhancement can be found on the Dreher Indoor Rowing Facility Page.
 Rowing is an environmentally friendly sport and inherently has a low carbon footprint so we are pleased to be in a position where we can minimize our carbon footprint through this power generation project from a renewable resource. This philosophy of sustainability is something that has guided us for years. We have always tried to make products that are designed to not only perform exceptionally well, but also last a long time. We control the entire process from the design to manufacturing and in most cases the final assembly here in the USA. Since we first started making oars we have autoclaved our oar shafts and in so doing get greater longevity from the product. We also compression mold our blades and many of the boat parts that we make. Both processes pack the carbon and promote better resin transfer under high pressure that results in long lasting parts high quality parts. The less often you have to replace your oars or other carbon parts that we make, the lower your environmental impact. We offer a couple of rowing products (both ours and others) as metaphors: Those of you that love rowing probably do not like an oversized motor on a coach boat or any motorized boat out on the water. We have all appreciated the quiet and economical four cycle engine and wakeless hulls of the latest coach boats and do not mind paying a little more because it will benefit the environment and will save money long turn. For indoor training, pumped tanks are incredibly expensive and have higher operating cost for the life of the tank and yet you do not get the proper drive simulation that our latest design indoor rowing system does for a fraction of the cost and it uses no energy resources other than those of the athletes! Our new PV system is a metaphor for the premium quality designs and products that we make and the thought and workmanship that goes into every Dreher designed product. See the picture of our PV system being turned on and please flip a switch in your mind and endorse Dreher designed products Made in the USA, products that will last, will in the end reduce your carbon footprint, just as our new PV system will reduce ours!
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