Item arrived well packaged and complete. No damaged parts. Assembly was easy and directions complete. Beautiful piece of workout equipment. Water sound is relaxing and very audibly pleasing compared to the traditional fly wheel. The way it looks and sounds makes you crave some daily sculling. Our entire family is enjoying it and it is holding up well to multiple users a day every day of the week. Extremely pleased with the quality, aesthetics and functionality.After having this for a few weeks, am wondering why I didn't purchase this sooner. It is a significant savings over a gym membership and we are all consistently using it more. If you are looking for an all over body workout option from within your home - this is an excellent solution.

Muy fácil de armar, alta calidad y muy buena herramienta de ejercicio.

Backstory: My husband and I are on-water rowers who compete nationally (and in his case, internationally). I'm bigger on erging than he is for practical reasons; he prefers to be on water when weather is decent, and I'm contending with certain work hours. We both love C2 as a company (seriously) but there's one thing... just one thing... that made us sell our C2 and go with a lesser known water rower. The catch. Literally, the catch (beginning of the drive) - on a C2 (and again, we love 'em as a company) it is JARRING to the neck and hands because the flywheel slows to the point where the pressure shock results in neck pain and wrist pain. In my case, that meant eventual surgery. As a result, the biomechanics are #1, 2, and 3 in terms of importance.As of this writing, this is a newer product (released December 2023) and has no more than 20 reviews. I looked at 40+ machines and took the chance on this one based on good, but limited, feedback. Experience thus far:Delivery: no issue. Well packed, one person can carry (two are recommended).Assembly: the video is much more helpful than the written instruction. Save yourself time and hassle and go straight to the video.Mobility: definitely easy enough. We won't be moving it around that much, but if you need to, that really shouldn't be a challenge! Pick it up on the center crossbar and up she goes on four wheels.Filling the tank: easy. Funnel is included.Noise during use: as expected. Not overly quiet, not overly loud. We can listen to videos, have a conversation, no problem. And as other reviewers have stated, there is a soothing aspect to it.Seat and glide: the seat is awesome (gel cushion is just ride), and the glide is absolutely perfect. Keep the rails clean to keep it that way.The drive: This is where this thing really shines. We started at a level 3 (use water lines on the right side of the tank, from the perspective of being seated on the machine) for long-distance rows. There was another reviewer who stated it wasn't a workout at all; I'm not sure how that is possible unless the tank was empty. But perhaps the fans were faulty in that reviewer's case - not clear. There is no hard catch - it is EXACTLY as it feels on the water, and it WANTS you to accelerate through the drive, as you should. In short, it feels awesome and is as close to an on-water experience and I could want it to be. Upped it to mock sprint training, since we're coming up on sprint season. We'll take it back down to a 4 when we get ready for head race season. It's not the most convenient thing to change the tank level mid-workout, so plan your training accordingly.Foot well / straps: The straps do rotate around when you adjust, but they stay put once fastened. I could see a scenario where they (the buckles) don't hold forever, but I can easily replace with sturdier buckle at a later time. This doesn't bug me.Wishlist: sure, I wish it had a shelf for a tablet or something. It doesn't. I can add one aftermarket. In the meantime, just leaving my tablet on the floor within reach.Console: this is the the only con thus far. Display contrast is not spectacular, but it a well lit room it's fine. Metrics... the metrics are nowhere near accurate. Split is twice what it should be and meters per stroke are half what they should be. Total distance is about half what it should be. Watts, I'm truly not sure where they are. They seem about right based on other machine experience (C2 is my benchmark). If you're getting this and participating in indoor rowing competitions, it's going to be a real downer. IGNORE THE STATS, friends. Perceived level of effort, good form, and quality of workout are key. The stats that this thing gives you - no way. Just no way.We got it for the training quality and biomechanics, not for erging competitions (been there, done that). For the price point, IMO, you can't go wrong. I've had no need to engage customer service, but in a couple pre-sale exchanges, they seemed responsive enough.If anything material changes, I'll post an edit. I do plan to post usage video as well, in the next week.Happy rowing.

Good lord it's pretty & I love it. I don't walk well so doc recommends a pool for exercise. Rub is I love in s Florida surrounded by unused pools, have family that could afford to help out-- So after being optimistic I bought a rower! This thing is gorgeous too. It folds & easily & wheels up against the wall. It's well built, only a couple screws to put together, &is a good workout using +80% of muscles. It fits William Morris's rule: it's both beautiful & functional. Great price too.

This is really a surprisingly nice looking piece of exercise equipment! Real wood, with a nice semigloss varnish - well above IKEA-class furniture finish, in my opinion. The styling is sort of a 70s high-end home equipment vibe, a lot like the classic wooden NordicTrack ski machines.Most of the rower comes pre-assembled, and I have no complaints about the job. It's clearly thoroughly tightened, zero creaks or wonky mating angles, and what little was left for me to do was fairly straight-forward; the instructions sort of leave you hanging though, telling you to leave the final tightening of all screws until they're in place but never actually saying when to do so! I figured it out anyway.The glide is absolutely perfect, and the pull feels great! I've spent a lot of time rowing on a Concept2, and a cheap magnetic rowing machine, and this is by far my favorite for actually enjoying my time rowing. It seems more like riding a nice bike on level ground, where you get that extended momentum after each stroke or pedal. I've never used another water rower to compare to, but I'm now a fan.Supposedly, you can connect it to your phone via Bluetooth, but I don't care. The screen is very reminiscent of a Tiger Electronics handheld game, with a little display that shows you an animated LCD "rendering" of yourself in a boat, with little waves or bubbles of water rushing past you at approximately the same pace as your stroke. Oddly for a rower, it doesn't show your 500m split.The seat is comfortable, and the handle is nicely textured, but the footrests and straps are best used with shoes on. Converting it between folded and flat can take a bit of thinking the first few times, since you have to know where the seat is going to end up before each maneuver, but once you get the hang of it it's fine. Living in earthquake country, I'd much rather have a rower like this that can fold into something less precarious, rather than having it be so top-heavy when vertical.Rolling it around is best done while it's still flat, and in that position it's very well-balanced, so it takes no effort to do so. I don't think the wheels at the end of the track are intended to be used for moving it while folded, instead they're there to let you grab it from the middle and pull up to fold it - when you do so, the two ends slap together on their rubber bumpers. So to roll it back to its storage spot, you place the water side where you'd like it to end up, grab the middle bar and pull up (and a little toward the water side), and the other side just rolls into place. It could use a proper handle there.