Usually you would use a film glue for extra adhesion to cores and especially on a honeycomb since it only has that thin honeycomb cell edge to bond with.
Although I have now built around 85 sailing dinghies using pre preg and foam with no film glue and it works perfect even with just one 200g carbon.
Depending on your supplier you can also order a higher resin content so maybe that is what is going on here with the rowing shell??
The spray glue they use looks to just be a temp hold while they finish the bagging.