For several years in a row, blustery weather causing choppy waves has prevented the running of the Boxing Day power boat races on the river at Riverton. The high-powered snarling things have had to stay on their boat trailers, engines un-fired, hulls un-wetted.
Instead, the rowers took to the water, not bothered by choppiness. Their multiple oars dipped and pulled without a sound. Even the grunting from the oarsmen and the yapping of the coxswain barely carried across the water to the watching crowd. It certainly didn't shatter the seasonal peace that enveloped the town like Santa's cotton wool beard.
Are we unhappy at the weather-forced gagging of the massive engines with their banshee screams?Do we pine for their inconsiderate throaty howls?
Not in this gentle household.
4 comments:
Its about time the yachtsmen of Riverton again prove that they are also more hardy than the meek power-boaters.
And our lifejackets are much more manly than the rowers one shown in the photo
The burly Yachtsmen of Rivertown?
Indeed, but they'll need to make ready their sailboats first!
I quietly concur with the sentiments in this post Robert :-)
We will fight them on the beaches...
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