This is my favorite rowboat so far. It is sixteen feet by six feet but very narrow on the water. It, like most all our boats, is very light... around 115 pounds. I like a wide transom situated low to the water for boats that are meant for recreational rowing. That fullness of the stern helps minimize the pitching as the oarsman shifts his (or her... rowing builds up the pectoral muscles) weight back and forth with each stroke. Pitching enhances the stern and bow waves and makes the boat think it has reached hull speed before it actually has. The bow is very full for that same reason. That also makes the boat dry and seaworthy.

This is a better rowboat for recreational rowing than the classic Whitehall. The reason the transom of a Whitehall is picked up so high out of the water like that is because it was designed to haul a load of drunken sailors to and from the whorehouse and the crimp who had to pull the oars didn't want it dragging its transom. That sober sailor is my youngest son who has never been in a whorehouse in his life... but he does have five children.