T&T: CBS News: Boating down

[john at jsikora.com]

The only problem with that approach is that it isn't economicaly feasilbe when you look at the whole picture. You save $5/gallon on gas but you spend more than that on the cost of beer and eats to keep the crew rowing (at least that's the case (excuse the pun) with my friends). Maybe I just hang around in the wrong circles.

Arild Jensen <2elnav at netbistro.com> wrote:  Mike Euritt wrote:
> Tonight's (7/3/08) final story on CBS Evening News was that boating and boat
> sales are way down because of the cost of fuel.
>
> -- Jim Ague
REPLY
Guess we will have to borrow a page from the history books. 
Lets see; Greeks and Romans used Gally slaves in their triremes.
Vikings had a single bank of rower on each side but being a democracy 
everybody rowed. 
Except the Captain who beat his tom tom to keep it up, the rowing pace 
that is. 
For all that; Viking ships would most likely outrun a Roman galley or 
even a Trireme. judging from the recreation of viking ships found and 
duplicated.
Viking ships had an average cruising speed comparable to modern trawlers. 

Hey that might even start a new boating trend. 




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