# The Amazing Race 31 premieres April 17th **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113 "2019-04-06T00:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113/161 "2019-06-30T04:24:23Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > And the rowing. She just set in the boat and let Colin do the work. Yeah, I guess it’s still teamwork if one of the team does absolutely nothing so the task can be successfully completed, but that annoyed me. I was ok with any team winning until that so I was disappointed that they did win. She was basically using the oars as outriggers, which I think was smart as the scull was so easy to tip over. Also, Colin was such a beast that any rowing on her part would have just slowed them down. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113/162 "2019-06-30T19:00:32Z")
But at least she could have kept them out of the water! ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113/163 "2019-07-01T02:50:51Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > But at least she could have kept them out of the water! If she had kept them out of the water, then they wouldn’t have been effective as outriggers. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113/164 "2019-07-01T11:24:04Z")
In a [super-sized episode of Team Fun’s leg recaps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1J2H4T89k), they talk about how they developed that strategy after going into the drink a few times. Colin squeezed a little info out of the coach that led him to believe he could row the full distance in the allotted time by himself, which freed up Christie to handle stability. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113/165 "2019-07-03T14:40:47Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > If she had kept them out of the water, then they wouldn’t have been effective as outriggers. Hmmm, I see your point. How about “at least she could have kept them closer to parallel to the water surface?” (My memory is that some shots showed the paddle vertical, and some jorizontal, but I have already deleted the episode.) But how effective would an outrigger not structurally attached to the scull be? Since she was just holding it in place, wouldn’t it have induced more drag as it moved random amounts in and out of the water? A regular outrigger is in (relatively) constant contact with the water and, further, is long and roughly canoe-shaped. A paddle (oar?) isn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-31-premieres-april-17th/832113.md?page=8)