Rowing

On Saturday I went to watch my brother cox at Karapiro lake for a regatta, that Te Awamutu rowing club was holding. He didn’t race until 11.00am, but had to be there at 6.00am. All the teams were on the water half an hour before they started and they had to row right down the lake to the starting line then back up when the race started. My dad was in the safety boat and there job was to make sure no boats went off track and that people don’t get hurt when they catch a crab. A crab for your information is not a crab you find and eat, it’s when your oar hits you and you can’t move it. This normally happens when you can’t row as fast as the others. My brother  was a cox and he had to sit at the very front of the boat. You couldn’t really see him when he was coxing because the rowers needed there space and his seat was lower into the boat. My brothers job was to stare the boat. He had to pull these strings and make sure the boats didn’t bump into each other. Otherwise it was his fault. At the end of the day Te Awamutu had one first and lots of thirds. We went home before my brother because he had to rig the boats and de rig the boats.