rebeccmeister | Saturday's adventure [rowing] (Reply)

Yesterday, we rowed Petrichor up to the farmer's market in Troy! Once it stopped raining the weather was absolutely beautiful, making it a fantastic day to be out on the river. This was only S's second time ever trying to row, and the first time might have been about a decade ago. He did very well, although early on he commented that he had to keep an eye on his oar to make sure it did what he told it to do, which got complicated by the fact that he had oars on both sides of the boat to try and watch.

Getting the oars in:

I gave a little cheer every time we made it past a landmark to help keep morale up.

It took us about 2 hours to get this far, this time. During our morning practices we can usually reach this distance in about 35-40 minutes.

We had to pull over and stop to pee twice on the way up.

The Troy docks are taller than our rowing docks. But we did bring along some fenders, at least. It's going to take more practice to figure out our mooring system.

In this case, it didn't help that the town's fire rescue boat gave us a MASSIVE wake right in the no-wake zone at the dock. Sigh.

We reached Troy just in time for some lunch at a hipster coffeeshop, and then had about 30 minutes to roam around the farmer's market. We brought home rhubarb, green garlic, kale, eggs, milk, lettuce, a loaf of bread, and maybe one or two other things I'm forgetting at the moment. A good haul.

I'm still so chuffed by the adventure.