"Based on the experience and know-how that I builtup over the last twenty years, I have designed a newdynamic rowing simulator, RP3, with new featureswhich give it an even closer "on water" feeling."— Cas Rekers The Rowperfect was invented by Casper Rekers, whose daughter Marjolein had commenced rowing and found that the machines she was required to train on during the Dutch winter felt very diffe
rent to her boat. This intrigued Casper because rowing machines had not existed when he was rowing in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He went to the rowing club to try the machines himself an instantly confirmed that they indeed felt very different to a racing shell. Over the winter of 1987-88, Cas (an engineer by profession) gradually deduced how to reproduce the dynamics of a floating shell on dry land. Casper patented his dynamic action rowing simulator in December 1988. It proved an instant success when one of Marjolein’s friends, talented lightweight sculler and trainee medical doctor Frans Göbel, happened to try the prototype, which Cas had intended to be a one-off for Marjolein’s use. Frans said “Can I have one please?” and the production of Rowperfects had begun!
