Editing Sculling (section)

{{Short description|Type of rowing when a rower has two oars}}
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[[File:Single Sculler.jpg|thumb|Sculler ready to catch with blades squared]]
'''Sculling''' is the use of [[oar]]s to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the [[stern]]. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a '''scull''', its oars may be referred to as '''sculls''' and a person rowing it referred to as '''sculler'''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Woodgate|first=Walter Bradford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-O0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=Sculler&pg=PA76|title=Oars and Sculls|date=1874|publisher=J. Watson|language=en}}</ref> 

Sculling is distinguished from [[Sweep (rowing)|sweep rowing]], whereby each boat crew member employs an oar, complemented by another crew member on the opposite side with an oar, usually with each pulling it with two hands and from [[stern sculling]], which uses an oar to propel a vessel with side-to-side movements from the stern.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stevens|first=Arthur Wesselhoeft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6ICAAAAYAAJ&dq=Sweep+rowing&pg=PA90|title=Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep|date=1906|publisher=Little, Brown, & Co.|location=New York|pages=90|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mcgrail|first=Sean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWLJAwAAQBAJ&dq=Stern+sculling&pg=PA209|title=Ancient Boats in North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500|date=2014-06-11|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-88238-1|language=en}}</ref>