That was annoying.

[nwhiker]

Rowing this morning. I was in an eight, with Coach Marilyn. Dh was in a quad with Coach S.

The weather was cold and clear, just beautiful. No wind, and the water was glass. We had a good boat, well dialed in, and Marilyn decided to take us to Portage Bay, something we don't get to do often, I'm not sure why. The other coach headed to South Lake Union.

We get there and... we stop. Coach S's launch has died. Marilyn tells the cox she'll come with us until we're back under I5 than she has to go rescue the other launch, cutting short our row. Which was sad. Because it was going real well. But important because South Lake Union, where the launch is now drifting is, well, an international airport.

We went back in and the cox decided to have us erg for 10 minutes to work on some of the drills he and Marilyn had planned and we didn't have time to do. We finished those a bit before our usual finish time.

Marilyn comes back and says that she got there, got the bad launch tethered to hers. Coach S decided to try starting her launch again and... it started.

So she continues the row with her boats and keeps them out an extra 15 minutes because they'd sat for so long. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I'm sorry but when one group has to go in under these circumstances, everyone should go in. Since dh was in the group that got a full row, I had to wait 30 minutes for him to be off the water and done. Which means I was sitting around the boathouse freezing for 35 minutes. Even standing in front of the fireplace wasn't enough. The issue, for me, was that with the very short very chilly row, I never got to warm up and so got back in colder than I'd started.

I'm even more annoyed because.... this is pretty routine for Coach S. I think she floods the engine and it starts up later once the gas has evaporated a bit. Because it's happened twice when I've been out with her, though they only tried to restart it once we were already at the dock. This is the third time. I should ask dh, since he'd recognize the sounds of a drowned carburetor.