steerer

A drummer helps keeps the pace and a steerer keeps the boat on course.

Adorned with dragon heads and tails, large boats typically hold 20 people — 18 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer, who sets the rhythm for the strokes, like a coxswain.

There’s also a drummer and steerer on board.

His presence reverberated through the cramped rooms and crooked hallways as every thug, thief, dealer, con man, and steerer came a little more awake.

Instead he donned a whistle and took a place on the outside, as one of the steerers.