There was a louder snapping sound, and the bow seat fell in two pieces and floated next to the bait box.

Hanson will be competing in the 2012 Olympic Games as the bow seat in the 8+.

She climbed into the stern and made her way carefully to the bow seat.

His son Marty, twenty-six, sat in the bow seat with Frank Marriott.

She sat behind Chakotay, who was piloting the raider in the bow seat.

Seth jumped in and sat in the bow seat.

There were a few dead crickets on the bow seat, presumably bait left behind by a panfish angler.

"This was a great experience to go through together," Kate Johnson, the bow seat of the women's eight, said in a news conference.

In 2004 the men's eight won a silver medal, with current national team member Derek O'Farrell as bow seat.

He competing in the 2008 Olympics in men's quadruple sculls (as bow seat).