They really should look where they are going

"Had they been in the water any longer, we may have been dealing with a different scenario."

What is the point of this sort of comment?
 
Have got to comment on this,Anybody who knows this stretch of water will be dumbfounded at the folly of this exercise.
The weather forecast at Sheerness was giving 20 knots and gusting well in excess of that.The wave heights of bits of the Thames or Medway with a bit of reach would has been impressive,just add wind against tide.
Our club cruise with 30/40/50 ft boats was keeping a close eye on the weather forecast and mooring at the club over night was interesting with a decent swell moving my boat around all night.
The following day club trip out to the Montgomery was curtailed at Sheerness and after a few aborted attempts to moor up in Queenborough we called it day and retreated back up to Rochester !!!!
 
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Doesn't say what sort of rowing boat it is, surely at Gravesend it would be a Sea Skiff type boat not the usual "Fine" boats seen on the non-tidal Thames.
 
Eights are very lightly built and separate into two halves for transport. However, anyone using one down there in the wild wild east is IHMO out of their tiny mind....
 
Ramage said:
Eights are very lightly built and separate into two halves for transport. However, anyone using one down there in the wild wild east is IHMO out of their tiny mind....
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Fairly sure on the right day that the things would be perfectly OK,just question the judgement of whoever was in charge of the event for allowing them to carry on in those particular weather conditions.
 
oldgit said:
Fairly sure on the right day that the things would be perfectly OK,just question the judgement of whoever was in charge of the event for allowing them to carry on in those particular weather conditions.
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The report says a crew from Gravesend Rowing Club so presumably they are out there fairly reguarly, sounds like a freak occourance as they must know the water. Can't believe its a normal racing eight mind, must be dodgy at anytime down there.
 
Quite possible they were under lee of shore somewhere but went a little to far round corner and came to grief when trying to turn for home.Wind was coming straight down river from the west.
The wash created by some of the Ro Ro ships and especially the tugs is enough to cause problems for many far larger craft when caught unawares.
 
The whole incident poses a lot of questions - how long will rowers continue their ill found belief that life jackets are unnecessary and that their boats should be allowed on coastal or estuarine waters?

Crazy!

Chris
 
Darwins law will prevail, the rowers in question escaped more through luck than anything else.

Even on the upper reaches, their stupidity astonishes me. On our way back from the Bray BBQ the other day, a four-man boat undertook us, and then stopped and turned in front of us. Two foolish moves, and surely the tip of the iceberg.

I suppose thats why fully grown men are still rowing themselves around: They are too stupid to be put in charge of a proper vessel... :p
 
No Regrets said:
Darwins law will prevail, the rowers in question escaped more through luck than anything else.

Even on the upper reaches, their stupidity astonishes me. On our way back from the Bray BBQ the other day, a four-man boat undertook us, and then stopped and turned in front of us. Two foolish moves, and surely the tip of the iceberg.

I suppose thats why fully grown men are still rowing themselves around: They are too stupid to be put in charge of a proper vessel... :p
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Are you sure you were not on the course at Henley ;)
 
They overtook us, cut across our bow to overtake Fifty Shades on the inside and then stop and turn directly in front of him. This was going towards Marlow Bridge. SWMBO was unimpressed, and she is a Cox and Secretary of Walbrook Rowing Club!
 
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