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Posted on: Saturday September 28, 2019 at: 3:30 pm
We are making our way down the River Weaver towards Runcorn today. As we came around a bend, we suddenly found ourselves facing a lot of rowers coming straight at us:
Rowing sculls coming towards us. You can tell from the image that it was rather wet!
We had found ourselves in the middle of the Runcorn Rowing Club Autumn Regatta. There were around 50 boats, a mixture of single sculls, 2’s and 4’s coming up river in preparation for the competitive row back down again. So, we had to carefully navigate our way through them as they, of course, were all facing the opposite direction as they rowed.
However, that was not the end of the problem as we were now in the middle of their course, which was around 4.6 Kilometres long, and were a hazard to their races. They had to wait for us to clear the route before they could begin racing. We picked up speed to travel as fast as we reasonably could and eventually cleared their finish line – which turned out to be right where we were going to moor up for tonight. Being on a river, it is best to moor facing up stream. This meant we had to turn the boat around first. We managed to do so and tie up just before the first boats came past us. These shell rowing boats travel much faster than we do, so it was a job to clear the course before they caught up with us.
Several 4’s reaching the finish line – right in front of us
You could have been at Henley. They might not have been as friendly…..or. Sold seats for front Row. Spectators….happy landings…xxxx