Re: Thoughts about crew weight in a Double/Pair

Carl,

So your stunning rosewood Double/Pair is leaving you!

What a relief to be free of temptation, and to know someone is going to be very, very happy! But it also makes me a little sad. Buying that shell may have been only a pipe dream, but it was a very nice pipe dream while it lasted.

Love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)
But world's are made of hello and goodbye: glad sorry or both ...

I am really sorry to read what you have to say about the way some boat builders dupe their clients. It is unconscionable to chop an inch off the top of a boat built for 95kg crew, then tell your 60kg client that it was built for a 60kg crew. Am I being small minded to think this is dishonest? How is it anything other than plain and simple fraud?

Remember Big Daddy's line from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?" "I smell mendacity."

It is nice to know that not all boat builders are so mendacious. Some actually do build the bespoke boats they say they are building.

I am thinking of Darryl Stickler's story of Frank Sims's building "Water Baby." Remember? Mr. Sims built it for a very small twelve year old girl. He had her father bring her to his boatworks, where he measured her from top to bottom. Then he built a shell just for her. It was 20lbs. I guess he wasn't paying attention to FISA guidelines, eh?

There is a photograph, I believe, of her sculling this shell past her house. She said that on school breaks she used to shell early morning every morning. Her father would be upstairs in the bathroom shaving when she sculled past her home. He kept a pair of binoculars on the window sill so he could watch her come by. From bridge to bridge, that is, from the first point he could see her to the last point, she never dropped the rating. And all this in a 20lbs bespoke shell built for a small twelve year old girl!

Did you know Frank Sims? I would have loved to have met him. It sounds as if he embodied a very old fashioned sense of decency. My kind of guy!

Cordially,

Charles

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