Afterwork: evening rowing
One of these few days that I could work from home. Pandemi is in its 3rd wave, most of my colleagues work from their homes but in my case - I need to be in the factory almost every day. But not today!
Saving time, otherwise spent on journey, gave me opportunity for extended evening adventures with Nano. I packed her on cart and went, by foot, to the harbour. It’s a nice, 40 minutes walk along the woods. I took my trusty Optimus 200 since we will be coming back after dark.
In its folded form the boat is so flat that we could slip under the bom. Insurgent’s style!
Downhill onto the launching ramp and we start preparations to launch.
The Sun was still above the horizon, it was a calm but a bit chilly evening.
Few minutes later we were ready for launch.
And lift-off into this calm evening! We were alone in this part of the world, no wave-building motorboats yet!
Rowing this boat is a pleasure. I need to adjust oars' stopping blocks as my rowing tends to pull them out of locks but for now I just kept my eye on it while moving alongside the canal.
We went to our good friend The Fallen Trea.
Evening breeze came shortly after, putting even more chill. To warm up we rowed onto the other side, to explore small, rocky cove where big Hallberg Rassy lives.
Wind died shortly after but it was getting really cold. I should have packed better clothes. I started rowing back towards my harbour. Calmness and cold of night was setting above everything. If not for solitary cars going over the bridge at times all was silent and perfectly still around.
After more than hour on water we were back on the ramp.
I hauled Nano onto grass for folding. Easy done with small wheel which sitts under rear skeg.
Lastly I ignited the lantern and we headed for night walk back home.