Echo Boats are Built To Win!
The leading edge, high-performance ACE Open Water Racing Shell is for Champions. This shell is designed to win races in the 24” class and in all conditions. With an exclusive wave-piercing bow, the innovative, sleek and smooth ACE is built for speed in the roughest of ocean rowing conditions. Having two shallow foot wells without a cockpit or washbox to trap water, the ACE sheds waves like a duck and allows for speedy reentry. The hull and deck cross sections of the long, low bow are shaped to move up and down with little resistance. The ACE picks up energy from following seas and wakes with no planning – enabling racers to put full-pressure-on and accelerate past the competition.
L-R: 2011 Echo Open Water Team Ace Racer Jeff Nelson (1st place), Little Harbor Head Coach Brian Chorney (3rd place) and Echo Rower, Mark Allen (2nd).
“What a great day, I got my boat back, had my first day on the water, raced and won all in the same time frame. All thanks to you and Ted and Echo. As I've said before, ‘I place and win races in that boat that I wouldn't otherwise’. Thanks for making that happen.”
Jeff Nelson, Long Island, NY
32nd Annual Snow Row on March 12, 2011
Echo Rower, Don Libby waiting for the start
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Row Echo for Touring Class Wins!
Our cutting-edge Echo Open Water Rowing Shell offers exceptional performance, speed, and stability.
Echo's are consistantly ahead of the competition in the rough conditions of off-shore racing.
Our shells are best suited for endurance events where the distances are longer (from 5k to 32k), and where stroke rates and speeds are a bit lower to provide greater endurance in a longer race. Think you’re up to it?
Take your sculling & paddling skills to new waters!
Are you someone who has rowed competitively and is looking for a new challenge? Have you ever wanted to launch your rowing shell from your favorite beach, big lake or wide river where the wind affects conditions and water gets choppy and rough? How about SUPers looking for a fun and competitive paddling community?
Join the movement and discover the exhilaration and beauty open water races!
Open water races are adventurous, scenic, and the competition is thrilling! Racing and touring race classes give serious competitors and recreational rowers and paddlers the opportunity to compete for medals and reach new fitness goals. With an Echo or Hovie SUP, the ocean's the limit!
Slide onto open water today!
East Coast Rowers & Paddlers, Join the Echo Open Water Rowing & Hovie SUP Teams
Whether you're a serious competitor looking for a new challenge, or a goal-setting recreational rower or paddler, open water competitions on the east coast offer 5k to 32k endurance races and off-shore regattas for racing and touring class rowers and paddlers.
Take your sculling and paddling skills to new waters and sign up for fun and competitive challenges (download form)
2012 Members compete in the Essex River Race, Blackburn Challenge and more.
East Coast Open Water Rowing Events 2012
Sat. March 10: 5.5k Snow Row (Hull, MA)
Sat., May 19: 10k Milford Lester Memorial Race, (Lake George, NY)
Sat. May 19: 9k Essex River Race (Essex, MA),
Sat. July 14: 32k North American Open Water Rowing Championships/25th annual Blackburn Challenge
tbd: 23k Jametown Counter Revolution (Jamestown RI)
Sep/tbd: 25k Hudson River Challenge (Nyack, NY)
tbd: 24k & 11k Soundkeeper's Lighthouse 2 Lighthouse (Westport, CT)
Oct tbd: 9k Head of the Weir (Hull, MA)
Features for Ocean Rowing
The ECHO rowing shell is the top sliding seat boat in the Touring Class category at Open Water Rowing Competitions. Rowers in Echo rowing shells consistently claim metals in this racing category. The advantages of competing in an Echo are:
- Dynamic shaped hull enabling semi-planing at moderate to high speed, will move you faster in proportion to length than in a racing shell.
- Overall high-speed characteristics facilitate surfing ocean swells.
- Bow is designed and cupped to punch through waves.
- Long Delta Keel reduces sideslip in crosswinds, resists stalling and offers easy maneuverability in close quarters and currents. This can be an advantage at the crowded start of races and in conditions found on open water.
- Rolled gunnel splashing water away from rower -- keeping rower dry.
- Closed decking and self-bailer keeps water off and out of boat
- Superior stability and performance in chop, swells and wakes.
