Red is green and port is starboard! After reading this book, you won't mix them up anymore and will want to jump right into a boat! In sports, you can run, sprint, jump, hit balls or pucks with a racket, throw or kick sports equipment, and much more. However, in only a few sports can you sit down! Rowing is one of them. But to keep it from being too comfortable, you sit with your back to the direction of travel. It’s a bit strange, but nonetheless, rowing is one of the oldest forms of human transportation on water. And when a few ferrymen in England raced against each other for the first time in the late 18th century, the sport was born. Outsiders may still know the German eight or the names of single scullers. But rowing is so much more. Arno Boes lists 111 good reasons to dedicate yourself to this sport.