About Rowingrigs
For more than thirty years, Piantedosi has been designing and manufacturing equipment for the rowing world. Our passion for rowing is longstanding.
We offer rowing rigs for kit boats, canoe conversions & rowing shells and manufacture rigs and parts for Maas, Peinert, Chesapeake Light Craft, Alden Rowing Shells and Echo. We’re proud to build all of our products in the US and export regularly to Canada, France, Australia, Chile and Sweden.
Gary Piantedosi’s personal rowing career began at MIT, where he was also trained as a mechanical engineer. His crews won silver medals at the 1973, ’74 and ’75 Eastern Sprints and IRAs. He was a spare for the US World Champion Eight in 1974, rowed the Straight Pair in the 1975 PanAm Games and the Straight Four in the 1976 Olympics. Today, Gary is an avid Masters sweep rower and an open ocean racer who enjoys competing wherever there are waves. As an Olympian, Gary Piantedosi brings proven experience in the competitive rowing world and as an MIT-trained engineer, his technical prowess is well-honed.
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