Grump grump

[rebeccmeister]

I have learned of a new thing that makes me EXTREMELY grumpy: showing up to the boatyard to row, having dragged myself out of bed, to find that the water is perfectly flat and there are a minimum of coaching launches...but that all that boats I might take out have gone off somewhere unknown.

I rowed about 100m in a lightweight 1x and concluded it would make me even more grumpy to keep trying.

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[randomdreams]

In the piloting world, you sign up for airplanes at a rental place online, so you can tell in advance what's there. (And the mechanics sign out aircraft that are being worked on.) Any chance it'd be possible to institute such a thing for boats?

[rebeccmeister]

I think the problem in this case is the operation is pretty low-tech. I'm also rowing as part of a kind of informal operation, so people who run the more formal parts might not always remember that we exist, I think. Ah well.