First - Check There is a River!

Weather:  Cloudy but fine

Temp:  About 9

River Condition:  Calm in protected areas – (0.418)m at 10:00am

Boats:  Brown and Gill

'Would be' Rowers:  John, Mick, Neil

New checklist required . . .

Three of us ‘winter rowers’ turned up bright and early ready and decided to take out a pair and ‘scud’.  Once all the riggers were set and books signed Mick headed for the river – only to discover that it wasn’t there!  Well, the river was so low that there was nowhere to launch the boats. 

We initially thought that we could walk to Richmond (club not suburb!) and launch there – so John and I cleverly manoeuvred Brown and tried floating it on the mud.  We eventually gave up when we realised that even the Banks Vets crew had decided they could not get out!  John did suggest a coffee – but instead we each headed home.

So – note to self . . . first check to see if there is a river before getting the boats ready!

There is no way this will float here . . .