You should know by now that the BBC gets everything about cycling wrong, so progressing to human powered boats is only natural.
In the past year we've had the infamous You and Yours - probably the most inaccurate feature about cycling ever broadcast - we've had BBC London telling us (among other errors) that helmets are a legal requirement, and this is just another in the sequence.
There was a time when the BBC prided itself on accuracy. Clearly not any longer.