My friends and I enjoy going on dumb adventures, and our latest escapade was pretty dumb! We purchased 3 dinghys with the idea of riding the River Aire for a day in a nice relaxing trip…
Well relaxing it wasn’t! Awesome it was though. Turns out boating on the river isn’t allowed because of private fishing areas, so we took to the Leeds Liverpool canal instead – this obviously led to alot more rowing and I’m aching all over a day later.
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The journey took about 6 hours and was a distance of 5.45 miles. Including breaks, Swan attacks and the fact we were rowing into the wind I think we did ok for a first attempt. The boats Steve and bought had really flimsy oars too, and we broke quite a few – I had to get a tow for the final 200 metres from Dave after breaking my final oar(cheers man 
). Most importantly though, none of us sank or fell in!
A selection of pics from our grand adventure below!
Oh, and I can’t mention boats without this…
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James|May 3rd, 2011 at 8:03 am
Hah yeah I was a little red, but not as burned as I thought I’d be! Was great fun apart from all the oar breakage
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