An awesome turnout: I lost track of how many rowers were out this Sunday. Must have been 10 if not more: Jack took out a guest rower, Thomas (also from Germany, but not Vogel); Sheila, Stan, Loretta, Frank headed towards Salem I believe. Sarah, Vivienne, Eileen and I wanted a longer row and headed northeast to Misery. The winds started at 5 - 10 knots, from the northwest, making the row out slow and quite bouncy. All of us were taking water over the port rail. As we came within 1 mile of Misery, the winds stiffened, and I thought of heading our group back for home, but it was too tempting to make the beach on Greater Misery. A good thing, as we all enjoyed the rest from fighting the chop!
But the winds only grew stronger as we rested, and shifted westward. The first 1/2 mile was close to scary. Vivienne capsized, but made a quick recovery. No need for her to do flip clinic this year! A little past Eagle Bar, we found ourselves in the middle of a race course, and one of the boats came within 20 yards of me, a bit too close for comfort.
Back at the dock, Jack had laid out a feast of Pirate's Punch, juice, bagels and cream cheese. Thank you, Cap'n Jack!
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It was a great row. The adrenalin was surely pumping (especially with the waves,wind and near miss by the sailboat). It was a good day to be out rowing with good company.
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