Rowing is a full-body workout, a full-team sport and fun enough to want to go full speed ahead

The eight-person rowing crew with the Newport Sea Base Rowing Club carries a boat to the water for a pre-dawn practice run in Newport Harbor.

Newport Sea Base Rowing Club Masters Coach Victoria Draper shouts commands through an old-fashioned megaphone to her rowing crew.

The four-person competiive rowing team with the Newport Sea Base Rowing Club glides across the calm water of Newport Harbor before dawn.

They come from all walks of life and many professions, but when the men and women of the Newport Sea Base Rowing Club climb into their eight-person boat and start to pull on the oars, they are one.

Members of the Newport Sea Base Rowing Club aboard two racing boats paddle into Newport Harbor for a practice session. Their practices begin before sunrise when they haul their carbon fiber boats to a dock and finish just before work begins.

Rowing in a 55-foot-long carbon-fiber racing shell, one of those long, thin $30,000-or-more boats one would see in college crew competitions and the Olympics, is a world away from the 10-second learning curve for a kayak.

Newport Sea Base Rowing Club Masters Coach Victoria Draper shouts commands through an old-fashioned megaphone to her rowers.

Lighted by the hues of the sunrise, the four-person competitive rowing crew is into the home stretch of a workout. Currently, 28 of the 37 members of Sea Base, founded a year ago, are women.

The men and women of the Newport Sea Base Rowing Club carry their eight-person boat along the dock in Newport Harbor after a sunrise practice session.