Earliest known rowing erg? Submitted by: Mike Modlin (December 17, 2007)
Here in Northern California we're surrounded by heavy agriculture and the remnants of the old logging industry. One of our local fairs, the Sonoma County Gravenstein Apple Fair, has an annual display of old steam engines, tractors, etc…. The attached pictures are of a 1910 woodcutter, but we saw it as the earliest known rowing erg.
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