Tour de Yarra

Weather:  Surprisingly mild mid-winter morning

Temp:  About 9

River Condition:  Fast downstream flow – but otherwise calm

River Level:   (0.023)m at 10:00am falling to (0.223)m at midday

Boat:  Mann

Rowers:  John, Carolyn, Neil

Gorgeous morning . . .

We again waited some time for other rowers to turn up . . . but when it became apparent that it was only us we had the choice of taking the elegant option a pair and a single or the much more social tub pair.  We chose the latter.   

And what a beautiful job we did of handling the Mann in amongst the constant chatter of the AGM, football, ballet, opera, Sydney’s Opera House and many other subjects.  I was fortunate enough to be sitting behind John’s new t-shirt with a map of the 2012 Tour de France so I was at last able to follow one of the sporting conversations!

It was a bit of a slog going upstream . . . but the ‘river-assisted’ velocity was quite remarkable on the way home . . . or perhaps it was my stellar steering?

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The fantastic Foleys in action

A demonstration in technique