Hydrow sound technician Stephen Dysert, driver/equipment technician Fraser Christie, photographer Jimmy Ahern, athlete Laine Maher and experience operations lead/athlete Nick Karwoski, from left, were among those filming last weekend in Mathews.Hydrow’s Nick Karwoski on the East River in a view similar to the one that Hydrow customers will see on their monitors.Hydrow sound technician Stephen Dysert, driver/equipment technician Fraser Christie, photographer Jimmy Ahern, athlete Laine Maher and experience operations lead/athlete Nick Karwoski, from left, were among those filming last weekend in Mathews.

After filming last weekend at Williams Wharf Landing, a group from Hydrow—the virtual rowing machine similar in concept to the Peleton exercise cycle—have nothing but praise for the Mathews location.

Hydrow members primarily split their time between Miami and Boston, but its world-class rowers have filmed in venues everywhere from England and Scotland to San Francisco and the Gulf...