Rob Waddell helps the fundraiser…

I travelled to , on behalf of Laura, Julia and Nigel, to have Rob Waddell sign the oars which will be auctioned at the High Tea &Bubbly and Concert Sunday 27^th June. We chatted about rowing (he talked about rowing -I thought it better to listen as I decided my meager knowledge would be discovered rather quickly, under the circumstances). I  mentioned Harry was finding the technical style of Yale a little different from New Zealand, especially ‘the finish’. Rob said he had noticed Canada had had a very dramatic’ finish’  “but it wins races.” He added “America has the times too”.

He humourously related how when he was to be coached by Dick Tonks (Head Coach of the Rowing NZ High Performance Team) he said to himself; “ I’ll give him a year. If he says ‘Jump!’ I’ll say ‘How high’.”