Rowers Convert Old Sailboat For Row From Cleveland to Key West

all images from Habitat Crew website Tom Kotula and John Hauserman are nuts, plain and simple. But a lot of rowers are nuts; you have to be to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get out on often freezing water just to be screamed at by some 100 pound snotty kid with an attitude and a megaphone. A boat that carries eight strong rowers and the objectionable coxie might weigh 212 pounds dry and empty. Those of us who don't like taking orders might scull in a single or double, with lighter oars in a boat that tops out at 50 pounds. a long row might be 10K. But Tom and John have converted what was a tub of a sailboat in 1972 into a monster double weighing a ton, and are...