Re: Rowers damage the environment - How ?

anton2468@xxxxxxx wrote: 

danielwspring@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Picture from Staines BC website of a banner at Molesey Regatta.
http://www.strokemanhost.co.uk/sbc/2005/molesey_junior/DSCN4185.JPG

I'm at a loss as to just how we damage the environment, and I know from
experience who comes off worse if a sheel collides with another boat.
Anyone care to make a suggestion :)?



This looks like a house boat. Of course this will be a grumpy loser in
life (common on houseboats on the Thames in this area) looking at the
standard of the boat and will have got fed up having his/her
drunken/hangover sleep (because these sad people tend to drown the
images of their sad lives in spirits) disturbed by coaches
wash/megaphones so early in the morning. This same boat which
undoubtedly pumps human excrement, washing up liquid and
oil/petrol/bilge water into the river is of course far more
environmentally friendly than these pesky loud rowers.


That particular boat was a rust bucket that didn't look as if it had been moved in a while, which I guess makes it fairly friendly in the fuel burning stakes - but my impression was that it was an aggrieved owner, possibly having had one too many blades scraped along the side of his hull.

Although it probably just scraped a layer of rust and muck off, which is how you could tell there had been contact.
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