This past Saturday, the High Point Rowing Club hosted the High Point Autumn Rowing Festival at Oak Hollow Lake. Twelve clubs participated, totalling 84 entries from sculling (single person boat) to eight person crews were held. The above photo features the main shelter where the timing committee maintained race statistics. Just beyond the shelter, the giant duck served as a point of reference for the launch area. The duck was a great way for participants to remember the High Point race. Since the High Point Rowing Club owns the duck, it is likely that they will use it often and rowers from elsewhere will remind each other, "you know, the place we rowed that had the giant yellow duck."
Since this is the only community rowing team in the area, Greensboro students and adult, master-rowers head down Highway 68 and West Wendover every afternoon to partake in this great sport. While High Point Rowing Club takes their rowing seriously, it is nice to know that they have a little sense of humor, as evidenced by the rubber duck. You may recall that the rubber duckie song was made ever so popular in the 1970's on Sesame Street. Wonder if anyone left the regatta on Saturday singing, "Rubber duckie, you're the one, you make rowing lots of fun.....".
That's quite a duck!
We have more than one rowing club here, probably because of the variety of waterways.
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, October 06, 2014 at 05:22 PM