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wet dock

After rowing, crew teams occasionally can't dock their boats for one of various reasons: other boats already using the dock, a strong current preventing adequate steering, or inexperience of the coxswain. When this occurs, rowers have to climb out of the boat in (often ice-cold) knee-deep water to carry the boat onto the shore.

Today the current was so strong it carried us right past the dock, and rowing it back out for a better angle would have taken too long, so we had to wet dock.

by greendeviant April 30, 2009