The Breakdown: Exploring the art of sculling at the Frisco Bay Marina

By Bryce Evans summit daily news summit county, co colorado The oars glided through the placid water in steady strokes, forcing my thin boat to slide away from the dock. It was going smoothly; I was getting the hang of it. “This is easy,” I thought. “I’m a natural.” But then something broke my concentration, a noise. I looked up towards the dock in front of me and heard it again. “Are you ready for me to let go?” It was the voice of Joanne Stolen, an instructor at the Frisco Bay Rowing Center, my instructor in what was my first-ever rowing lesson. She was holding onto a thin white rope, looping down the end of the dock and attached to the stem of my boat. I paused before answering. It wasn’t that I was nervous to be in the middle of the Dillon Reservoir in a boat thinner than the chair I’m sitting in to write this — or maybe... [read full story]