What swimming and skills test must my child pass before racing?

Q: What swimming and skills test must my child pass before racing?

Every rower at a school regatta must have passed the Standard Sculling Test. The school or junior club runs the test and is responsible for it. When a club registers a rower with RowSA, it is confirming the rower has passed. The test (SASRU rules): Two scullers carry the boat from the boathouse and put it on the water. Scull 50 m from the jetty or bank and back. Turn the boat on its axis, clockwise and anti-clockwise, moving no more than about 1 m sideways. Back the stern to the bank or jetty from at least 10 m away, as for a stake-boat start. Scull at firm pressure and, on the command "hold it hard", stop the boat within one boat length. The two scullers return the boat and blades to the boathouse. Swim 50 m in rowing kit. The RowSA Rules of Racing add one more requirement for all RowSA-registered rowers: being able to get back into the boat unaided in racing kit.

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Every rower at a school regatta must have passed the Standard Sculling Test. The school or junior club runs the test and is responsible for it. When a club registers a rower with RowSA, it is confirming the rower has passed.

The test (SASRU rules):

Two scullers carry the boat from the boathouse and put it on the water.
Scull 50 m from the jetty or bank and back.
Turn the boat on its axis, clockwise and anti-clockwise, moving no more than about 1 m sideways.
Back the stern to the bank or jetty from at least 10 m away, as for a stake-boat start.
Scull at firm pressure and, on the command "hold it hard", stop the boat within one boat length.
The two scullers return the boat and blades to the boathouse.
Swim 50 m in rowing kit.

The RowSA Rules of Racing add one more requirement for all RowSA-registered rowers: being able to get back into the boat unaided in racing kit.