It was an amateur-sculler, well up to his work though taking it easily, in so light a boat that the Rogue remarked: 'A little less on you, and you'd a'most ha' been a Wagerbut'; then went to work at his windlass handles and sluices, to let the sculler in.
The water rose and rose as the sluice poured in, dispersing the scum which had formed behind the lumbering gates, and sending the boat up, so that the sculler gradually rose like an apparition against the light from the bargeman's point of view.
"Oh, drat the man!" she would exclaim, when some unfortunate
sculler would get in her way; "why don't he look where he's going?"
Early as it was, there were plenty of
scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide; the navigation of the river between bridges, in an open boat, was a much easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we went ahead among many skiffs and wherries, briskly.
Hugh sculled well on the 750m in his semi-final against City of Sunderland and Durham Amateur Rowing Club, with the Durham
sculler going on to win the final.
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Sculler Mike Targett manoeuvres after his race - with a fine view down the course from the finish line.
The country clinched silver also in para single scull event where single
sculler Manzar Yaqoob performed extremely well and recorded his name in the history as it was the first-ever medal in this category for Pakistan.
George Watson's had the fastest open single
sculler and their J16 open and women's double
scullers were also faster than senior opposition, while Talkin Tarn's J18 single
sculler was the quickest of the women's singles.
Sam Mottram took a commanding win in the lightweight men's single sculls, cruising over the line two lengths up over the Swiss
sculler Michael Schmid and Greek
sculler, Spyridon Giannaros in third, with all three going through to the semi-final.
There are 23 wooden boats accessible for visitors who may use a personal
sculler or borrow a wedding boat.
The Formby-based rower, who has shown outstanding levels of hard work and commitment, was the fastest female
sculler at the former event and was awarded the Chester Trophy.
In a fast tailwind in Poznan, Thornley went through half-way overlapping Austria's Magdalena Lobnig and Rio singles bronze medallist Jingli Duan before pushing past the Chinese
sculler in the third quarter.