Carbo loading and rowing

Very few rowing events are long enough to make carbo-loading beneficial.
Marathons are the only ones that immidiately comes to mind.

To carbo load, or store more glycogen than normal, requires a depletion phase
of at least a couple of days where you eat almost no carbs, only fats and
proteins. You must continue to train during this phase and you will feel pretty
bad (run down). The idea is to completely use all your bodies reserves. Then,
the day befor the event, eat huge amounts of carbs. Your body is starved for
glycogen and will store much more than usual rather than just turning the
excess into fat.

Your body can normally store about 1 hour worth of glycogen without
carbo-loading. If you're eating right (and enough) all the time, there
is no need to do anything special for shorter events. More carbs won't improve
your performance until you start to run out.

If you really want to try carbo-loading, find a book that covers it.

Edited from a post by David Mackintosh