OT to the max: Great River Race

The other weekend, I was listening to the broadcast of this event, on
the radio in the car, and cackling laughing.

It's for char-idee and as you can see from the website below, there's a
substantial entry fee.

But I'd have thought we have enough lunatics here both to construct
some sort of 10-seater craft and paddle it the requisite distance
without sinking. I really fancy it for next year. Anyone else? Anyone
here ever actually *built* a boat?

http://www.greatriverrace.co.uk/

 

TOG@toil, ,

if anyone has, I'd suspect Simon Kenyon.

 

Sort of. I helped my Dad build one when I was 8. It was a small 2 pax
boat for going fishing in. It worked too.

Does that help?

 

<TOG@toil>; <>;

I've built rafts; does that count?

 

Sounds like you're over-qualified. Anyone else?

 

Well I've built boats and canoes but you don't need it over here.

 

TOG@toil, ,

Erm...
I've designed drain cleaning equipment, waste compactors and conveyors
for McVitie's ginger nuts.
Any of that any use?

 

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Essential war work, your exempted

 

even I've done that, so probably not.

 

Ooh! Ta!

Aksherly. Everyone should be given the chance to eat ginger nuts while
they are still warm - best biscuit in the world, when eaten like that.
But not digestives - they just taste like cardboard when they are still
warm. And don't ask me about fig rolls.

 

TOG@toil, ,

I lived next door to a bloke who built a boat in his garage - took him
about 20 years.

 

says...

I fuckin' hate pikies.

 

TOG@toil, ,
wrote:

I (as part of a team) had to build a raft as part of a team-building [1]
day in the Cotswolds last year. It went together OK, but the moment we
lifted it up to carry it to the water, it disintegrated. Made the relay
race that followed a bit of a challenge, but we cleaned up in the "now
take your raft apart again" contest at the end.

Howzat?

[1] aka fucking about on water for a day, followed by a bottle of
champers in a hot tub with the big
boss's PAs.

 

I ate a melon boat once.

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Mine didn't sink; does that help?

 

Aye ate fahkin pikies.




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Best one yet

 

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