How many schools here offer rowing? Methinks those that do are private schools. How is 'toff' defined? If it includes the wealthy middle class, which now provides the intake for Radley and the like, then rowing is for toffs. A visit to Henley Regatta doesn't suggest otherwise and nor, specifically to this case, does a look at the composition of Boat Race crews. When we needed rowers to train with a view to making them potential Olympic rowers, the rowing authorities had to advertise for athletic volunteers of the right height; that suggests that there is not a mass of ordinary people rowing. The ones they got had never rowed.