These guys are not young. They are wearing a lot of clothing that would be very tricky to remove and would absorb a great deal of water. They are sculling along in water that has large chunks of ice and on a river that is not so small.
If they caught a blade on a big chunk of ice and went in, at their age and with the temperature both in the water and out, how long would they live? They would stuggle to re boat and would they have time to swim the boat to shore? (or would they panic and try and swim?) You can hang on to the boat but we have all seen Leonado De Caprio in Titanic...
anton2468@aol.com wrote:> Now call me provocative if you like.............>
These guys are not young. They are wearing a lot of clothing that> would be very tricky to remove and would absorb a great deal of> water. They are sculling along in water that has large chunks of ice> and on a river that is not so small.>
I too would question the wisdom of the outing... but it's a great picture.
Incidentally... what point are you making about clothing that is difficult to remove and absorbs a great deal of water? Why remove it? Submerged wet clothing doesn't pull you under, and insulates.
When I fell in (two weeks ago at 2 degrees C air temp perhaps 6 degree water temp) I was wearing about four layers. Heavy as hell when I got to the side and stood up, but no inconvenience whatsoever as I clung to the boat De Caprio stylie.
Great. I don't recognize a smidgen of a Dutch accent though.>
Reminds me of asking the way at a Maine, US, gas station. The young lady was doing her nails & chatting to her girl friend, clearly regarding a new customer as an intrusion. Being very British, I coughed politely. No response.
So, after a decent pause, I spoke. She whirled around with a big smile & said "I like your accent!".
"That, madam", I responded, "was not an accent. That was English".
Not sure she understood. Must have been my accent. Perhaps it was double Dutch to her? ;^) Carl -- Carl Douglas
"Walter Martindale" <wmartind@SPAMSTOPPER??telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:ECnVd.25090$TB.15560@edtnps84...> snip> One of the first questions I was asked about 40 minutes after landing in> New Zealand in 1997 - on introduction to a couple of locals doing an> ergo workout (very windy day)> Kiwi Bloke: "Canadian ah ye? Got an eccent,then?"> Jet-Lagged reply: "No, but I probably will when I go home."
Used to drive me nuts. I'm an accent-sponge, quite unintentional. Put me somewhere for a few weeks and I start picking up the accent and affectations. When I trained in Philly, I'd come back talking like Sylvester Stallone, on my Ireland trip, came back with a stupid thick brogue, same with Bahstin, two different accents in New Yowk and Joisey.
I pick up a Chicaago aaccent in one day with my relatives there.
My few weeks in Henley had me much more affected by the Henley RC blokes at The Stag than the effete Leander types.
me too... of course i don't normally have an accent - east belfast is the way english was meant to be spoken...
"Mike Sullivan" <sul@SNIPslac.stanford.edu> wrote in message news:d05eco$q89$1@news.Stanford.EDU...> Used to drive me nuts. I'm an accent-sponge, quite unintentional.
Beside the fact that it would be foolhardy to contemplate rowing in such conditions, I was wondering what the ice would do to the surface finish of the boat? It looks like the path cut out in the ice changes direction which means the channel which the boat travels in will 'cut' into the boat to change it's direction. That can't be good!
Walter Martindale 3 March 2005 20:04:39 [ permanent link ]
Jay L wrote:> oarsman wrote:>
Beside the fact that it would be foolhardy to contemplate rowing in such > conditions, I was wondering what the ice would do to the surface finish > of the boat? It looks like the path cut out in the ice changes direction > which means the channel which the boat travels in will 'cut' into the > boat to change it's direction. That can't be good!>
regards>
Jay
If it's ice, that's a not good thing for boats. If it's slush on very cold water from a very recent, very heavy snowfall, then it's just plain fun. I've recently seen 40 cm long repairs done to both sides of the bow of a single that had encountered ice... W
Fortunately, what looks like ice is really mother nature's slurpie on the Charles - all slush. Also, they were smart enough to use a wherry-type 2x. And, finally, they did alert us at a local college that they would be "on the water," as well as the photographer who caught them in the act. L.
Another one in responds:
Wherry-type? That "wherry-type" boat is a Maas 2x -- a boat which won a gold and a bronze in the Master's Nationals (as well as the Blackburn Challenge).
Sorry for the vent, but as the president of Maas, I couldn't let that remark pass.
