Requirement
8. Describe three things about boats
Required
All three parts required, all three dry, none gated by the swimmer test. This and requirement 9 are the pile of work that can be finished at home before anybody goes near water.
Notes and warnings
Note. THREE DESCRIPTIONS, ALL DRY, AND THE LAST ONE IS THE ONE TO LOOK AT RATHER THAN READ ABOUT. 8(a) wants craft used in COMMERCIAL, competitive and recreational rowing, and the commercial one is the answer people cannot produce: working boats that are still rowed rather than driven, and the places and trades that still use them. 8(b) is four boatbuilding materials with positive AND negative points for each, which is eight answers, and the comparison worth making runs weight against cost against what happens when the boat hits something. 8(c), oarlocks in competitive and recreational rowing, is the most specific piece of vocabulary anywhere on this badge and cannot be answered from a definition. Find pictures of both kinds and the difference explains itself in a moment.
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Where this step comes from
- Rowing Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2026-02-18), Requirement 8