Matt picked up the condor from Marsport on Friday, with the footplates re-bonded to the hull, we decided on account of all the rowers to head downstream to Sonning lock cut and return back to the club.
The boat ran well and the flow was noticably slower than recent outings, none the less the turn came up in no time and we started the long hard slog back up against the current.
We pulled in just as the main club group were leaving for their session in a time of 1:00:00 dead, not bad for us and more importantly the footplate held, so no worries there.
Matt and I proceeded upstream with several practice starts to give us some practice ahead of tomorrows Waterside A race.
On the way home Matt called with the news that out paddles had water inside them and Lee's blades were twisting (DISASTER)! I scooted back to Matt's then on to Marsport who kindly set up a new set of carbon wings for us and loaned Lee the two part epoxy glue which in their words was so much better than the hot melt sh*t which had failed on us.
Lee repaired our two Elio Competition IV wings and left them to dry overnight, early to bed to prepare for the first races (sorry training run) tomorrow.
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