As needs change…

Exhausted and busy since we returned from our trip to visit with the kids and help with the new baby, I've only taken a handful of frames — and none with the dSLR — in ten days. A flurry today was an effort to find a new home for this rowing shell.
     » We have used this one only a couple times in the last five years—
     » It's taking up valuable real estate in the garage—
     » We need the space for the indoor rower we've ordered (another pandemic ripple).
So this one has to go, if we can find a buyer. Placing an ad on Craigslist and row2k.

This image shows how this particular shell can be used as a single or a double with the "drop-in riggers." In the photo, it's rigged as a single, but the rigger in the shell can be moved and the second placed inside so the shell can be rowed as a double.

And I complete October posts in mid-December.
A month-and-a-half behind.
Again.
Sigh.

Looking back
1 year ago: No post
2 years ago: “Alternative to germ-laden handles!”
3 years ago: “Halloween row”
4 years ago: “Adieu”
5 years ago: “Well whad'ya know — red tea!”
6 years ago: “Somebody missed a branch a few years ago…”
7 years ago: “Campus, on a rainy day”
8 years ago: “Boo!”
9 years ago: “Post-Halloween”

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[Mags]

Wonderful shot! I hope for your sake you sell it soon.

[Esther Rosenberg]

I ma not into rowing, this is neat how it comes all apart. Good luck selling.

[GaryW]

Very appealing photo...hope it sells fast!

[Kerri Michaels]

Nice

[Maggiemae]

Its too beautiful and elegant to let go! Can't you keep it for the future?

[Thom Mitchell]

@maggiemae Need the storage space. Without a trailer to transport it, it's very difficult to get to the water and back. 18-feet long. 60 pounds (27kg). Very stable in the water (won't flip), but slow. And the point of rowing is to go fast, right? :)
We used it mostly to introduce newbies to sculling. I would go out with them as a double for 20 minutes; go back to the dock; take out one of the sliding seats; and send them out as a single. But we've only had four or five new-scullers in the last nine or ten years.