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16 | <strong>01945</strong> CUSTOM INTERIORS COASTAL CHIC GIFTS & HOME DECOR FINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Diana James | 34 Atlantic Avenue, Marblehead Showroom: 781-990-5150 | livingswellmarblehead.com on Tatelman's lawn in 2007 when they hit on a way to combine a love of Marblehead community life with a love of rowing. Leake said the club's first boats were stored on the roof of the Marblehead Yacht Club pool house and the first attempts at rowing resulted in members snagging their crafts on Marblehead Harbor mooring lines. Marblehead Trading Company owner Ralph Anderson and yard manager Tom LeBouf reserve a corner of their cavernous boat barn for RocknRow's shells and wall space covered with maps lining out rowing paths around Marblehead Harbor. The water is the limit when it comes to rowing excursions ranging from Marblehead rock and Tinker's Island — a relatively easy hour-long row — to the Blackburn Challenge: A 21-mile slog around Cape Ann. Club members have taken trips to Michigan, Maine and Canada to row. "Being in the water makes you feel better about being alive," said Tatelman. Practice and patient instruction from RocknRow member and coach Jigger Herman has helped members master the shells, which feature sliding seats mounted less than a foot off the water's surface. Velcro straps hold feet in place and oars are mounted in locks on each side of the shell provide propulsion. "Feeling comfortable in the boat is the first hurdle to get over," said RocknRow member John Rogers. Rowing backwards is also an adjustment and learning the proper stroke takes time. But Christopher Leake, Terrie's husband, said the learning curve leads to a very pleasant place on the water. "It's serene and peaceful. It's almost like yoga when you're rowing," he said. RocknRow membership comes with a $475 annual fee and there is currently a membership waiting list. Some members own boats while the club also purchases shells for members' use. Getting out on the water with RocknRow means knowing how to swim and learning to rig and launch a shell off the dock near Marblehead Trading Company. "The big deal is to go around Brown's Island," said Terrie Leake. The club does have one hard and fast rule: No rowing alone. In its devotion to Marblehead, Tatelman conservatively estimates the
SUMMER <strong>2019</strong> | 17 club has raised $100,000 for local causes. The late summer Misery Island cleanup is an annual club event. Members socialize throughout the winter on ski trips and in a book club and start-of-the-rowing-season boat preparation in May and the season's September end are reasons to have fun and take part in the 14-mile Lake Sunapee row. "It's the members that make the club special. It's the spirit of the members," Tatelman said. RocknRow even hosts an early June "blessing of the fleet" to inaugurate the rowing season complete with a pancake breakfast. On a sadder note, club members name shells after members who have died. The collage adorning a wall in RocknRow's corner in the Marblehead Trading Company includes a list of commandments, including, "Thou shalt pee before launching." "I never envisioned the club would last this long," Tatelman said, "We all have a common love for the town and the water." For more information on RocknRow, visit info@rocknrow.org From left, RocknRow members John Rogers, Terrie Leake, co-founder Jack Tatelman, and Chris Leake stand on a dock overlooking Crowninshield Island before launching their boats.
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