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6th March 2011, 02:10 PM #16Novice
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Dory delight yet never ending
Great to catch up with you and David at Goolwa. Drove past Ted's old place, the scene of the Frat house feast and follies and noted it has an aboriginal flag flying!
I towed the Welsford designed NED (Never Ending Dory) with that-morning-applied Jet dry paving paint, jury-screwed rowlock blocks, jerry built flotation chambers and much trepidation the 800 odd k from our mountain home.
I had first ever row of it Friday night before the show. As someone said and as MIK has pointed out in his commentary on dories, I had a Jesus Mary and Joseph moment on first pulling away from the beach—TENDER isn't quite the words I would use to describe it but this is a family post. I now completely understand MIK's treatise elsewhere about dory instability. So midnight oil burnt up adjusting blocks and grommets on the oars.
But son of a gun, does it row easy!
Apart from a canoe trek on Lake Algonquin (portages are a pain) in Ontario about 42 years ago I have done little serious rowing since school, (50 years ago) but once i remembered the hang of it, (catch, drive, release, feather, recovery, catch.... etc) NED and I made the 1.4 upstream to the boat show from the Aquatic Club launch ramp at VMG of better than walking pace.
All against a current I would have put at two knots minimum. But it sits ON the water not in it, so that is to be expected. Taking it home on Saturday night was a blast: really quick down stream (VMG about a jogging pace) with a guard boat hounding me so Sting could have a run.
But I have found its Achilles hull; the bloody wind.
Taking it home downstream on Sunday night into that breeze of about 12 knots and 30 cm chop was madness, it danced all over like a teenage gymnast overdosing on speed. My inability to row in broken water didn't help in any way–but we still made walking pace.
I love it. I'll finish it with the rowlock blocks slightly outrigged, I'll row it at least three times a week, as PaPPP_PP (Planning and Practice Prevents -Poor Performance) and by next January I plan to be playing in the light surf at Wye River near Lorne. (I have a Stormy, a wet suit, a shovel to load it with about 100kg of sand and a drogue anchor, yeeehaa).
Loved the time, loved the company, love my wild child NED.
Capt'n Nemo
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7th March 2011, 12:22 PM #17
That's exactly it Nemo,
For rowing boats the two ends are stable but a bit slower, or really easily driven but a bit tippy.
You just have to catch more fish to weigh it down when the weather gets up a bit.
MIK
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