Friday - Boatloading
What on earth is boatloading? Well basically, all regattas are held about a 25 minute drive away from your boatshed. So, you must load the boats onto a trailer to be taken down the the regatta site for each regatta. You are not like some schools who have their boatsheds on the shore of the regatta site, your school wants to cause you more pain.
You have to take every single boat out of the boatshed, and take off their riggers (thats the things that hold the oars), otherwise they won't fit on the trailer, and then load them up. To de-rig, you need a spanner. A 10 mm spanner is used, but there will always be at least one boat in the boatshed which takes another size spanner on its nuts, so take an adjustable spanner as well.
After de-rigging all of the boats, and having to search through the mud and dog poo on the ground to find any nuts you have dropped, you have to load the boats onto the trailer. Some people have to climb onto the trailer itself, and with 10 people on one side of a trailer that has a definite list, it isn't the most simple thing to do. Then, you need several people to get on the eights at one time, because after you carry the boat at shoulders to the trailer, you must lift it over your heads to pass it to the people on the trailer. Have you ever tried to lift 98 kilos over your head? Not fun.
After all the boats are loading, you may be thinking "Thank God it's over, and now we will be on time for school". Ha! The coaches never permit you to get to school on time or, God forbid, early, so they send you off on a run around the oval to waste time. When you have finished running, if you still have time, they make you do squats. All the way to the ground, and you can do from 60 to 200, depending on the coaches' moods and how much time you have left. And, after all this, you guessed it, you have school!
And guess what happens tomorrow? Regatta day!