To leave the shore, the rower should, with the boat-hook, shove the
boat off, head upon tide, or opposite to the current. To leave stairs,
the rower must either shove the boat off with the boat-hook, or place
the blade of the scull forward, and perform what the London watermen
call belaying the boat’s head out from the shore, accordingly as there
is deep or shallow water.
This being done, the rower sits down to his sculls. These he puts in
the rullocks, and turns the concave front, or filling of the scull,
towards the stern of the boat.