Rowing

[Rob Ripley]

Today (1st Jan 2011) 2 club members and I of the Wooden Boat Association, were invited to participate in the 100th celebration of the Anglesea Rowing Club (http://www.anglesearegatta.com.au/ ). We were fortunate enough to enter one of the 100+ heats (the ages of the entrants totalled over 100).
This Rowing club is unique in that the boats built for the first challenge, were built before 1911, and the same boats are still rowed today!
Whilst it was an honour to row a 100 year old boat, the difference may have been more favourable if I had one of my Seagulls on the transom![attachment=0]00002.jpg[/attachment]

[chris]

great photo, what is that blue stuff in the sky, in queensland we have only seen liquid sunshine for weeks, lucky its the sunshine state,
I am in the wooden boat association as well

[JoeShields]

my homemade "Dilemma" one-man dinghy that I use as a tender for our 23' sailboat.
Bet it would fly with my 40- Seagull strapped on the stern.

[Rob Ripley]

[quote="chris"]great photo, what is that blue stuff in the sky, in queensland we have only seen liquid sunshine for weeks, lucky its the sunshine state,
I am in the wooden boat association as well[/quote]

Hi Chris ... This is Victoria - it just happened to be a perfect day. The breeze late in the afternoon gave me a chance to sail 'Green Pea'. Check out our website www.woodenboat.asn.au.

[Rob Ripley]

Re: "JoeShields" ...Bet it would fly with my 40- Seagull strapped on the stern.

"Fly' is perhaps not a term I would use with a 40+ strapped to the stern of an 8' boat.
I was at a Boating Festival some time ago and participated in a 'performance comparision' with another similar length boat and 40+ motors (legalities of the festival banned racing).
He perhaps had slightly more performance because of less water resistance until my spark plug cap decided to go for a swim (it could not swim of course!).[attachment=2]00004.jpg[/attachment][attachment=0]00001.jpg[/attachment][attachment=1]00008.jpg[/attachment]

[JoeShields]

Actually, the "DIlemma" is only 6 ft long (3 ft. wide in the beam). Allowed Capacity works out to about 180 lbs... so I need to watch how much weight I put on during the winter months. I use it to get to and from my moored boat. Only weighs 25 lbs.