On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Jean-Marie Poirier <jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr> said:

> I believe "feather" is a technical term in rowing and in this case would mean 
> something like "dig". But I may be totally wrong of course ;-) !

rather the opposite, one feathers an oar by twisting the wrists during the
recovery stroke making the blade parallel to the water so it wont dig in.

-- 
Dana Emery




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