I am now 73 years old and row regularly, off Gibsons in the ocean, on lower Howe Sound and Shoal Channel. These days I seem to be averaging two or three sessions per week, year round, over a 2.5 nautical mile course. This is in addition to a 1.5mile round trip walk to the marina, where the boat resides on a floating ramp. The main restriction on rowing frequency is adverse wind condition: out flows in the winter and westerlies in the summer. My last job each night is reading the marine weather forecast.

I have severe arthritis in both knees and one ankle. As a result I recently gave up down-hill skiing after 60 years on the slopes. Also, cardio-vascular heart disease is a new enemy.

Rowing is the best and most sustainable low impact cardio-exercise for me. In addition, it is great pleasure and relief of stress to be out on quiet water with only sea life and water birds for company. 

Bert Reeve Gibsons BC