Jan13
We went out for a walk on Sunday, across the river, and up towards the boat houses. Alongside the boat houses, almost all of them in fact, it seems the students have a habit of leaving boats they no longer want to use outside in the elements to decay and die. This is a close up of the worst we saw. Parts of it wer broken through and along the length of it the varnish was peeling off.
I really enjoyed this walk, and neither of us had ever walked this far along the bankside in front of the boat houses. The sky was quite grey, but it was blowy out, so a mild Sunday morning was made chill by the wind.
A really interesting sight to see, a boat, up turned as though to be repaired, in a place where I really wouldn't expect there's some one around who would be capable of repairing it. Anyway, it's not the sort of boat that a college would use to even train in, so I doubt it's waiting to be repaired. Maybe, years ago someone promised it a repair, and now they've moved on elsewhere and it's still waiting, never to be repaired. To the students it's just a cool ornament which reminds them of how they come to be racing boats out of that boat house. Reminding them of the boats that came before, the people that rowed in them and the people that built them. It was a pleasant walk on a Sunday morning, and this was just one of the interesting things I saw.