Row

 

I have fixed the road trailer so I can get Derry the Skerry down to the club beach to launch a bit more easily.    The lockdown restrictions allow me to go boating as long as it is within 5 k of home (tick) and I can complete the activity within the two hour time limit (tick).  It was a cold grey day today but as an antidote to lockdown fever, I made an effort and got out. 

I rowed for exactly an hour and averaged 2.4 knots.  Hmmm. There was a side wind and a bit of chop, and I had a bit of trouble with one of the leathers and buttons on the port oar so that slowed me down.   And I seemed to have a magnetic attraction to the gas pipeline marker.  Try as I might, every time, going out and coming back, whenever I looked over my shoulder I seemed to be heading straight for the dammed thing.

Ozzie's quarters seem fairly good to me.  I put a blue foam mat down, and he snuggles between the two inflatable rollers.  He slept most of the outing.  But now mysteriously he has developed a limp, and now I have owners guilt for taking him out on such a cold day without his coat.

You can see behind him the wheel of the folding trolley, which works quite well though it gets bogged in soft sand and the boat just slides over the runners when you push.  I will have to make sure I take the webbing straps to lock boat and trolley together next time.