Here’s a bit of fun to be had – the Star Boat­ing Club (that’s that cool place by the lagoon that you’ve prob­ably atten­ded more than a few wed­dings at, or oth­er occa­sions & got your­self com­pletely trashed & may or may not have ended up in the water in your din­ner suit or ball gown…) in con­junc­tion with Wel­ling­ton Girls Col­lege, Queen Mar­garet’s Col­lege and Wel­ling­ton Col­lege, is hold­ing a 20 hour Row-A-Thon to raise funds for the cur­rent sea­son of races, regat­tas & camps.

It takes place at the Read­ing Com­plex Foy­er (Court­ney Place) between 6pm Fri­day Feb­ru­ary 22 (TONIGHT!!), and Noon Sat­urday.

And what is a Row-A-Thon when it’s at home? Well… they’re put­ting 2 ERG machines (that’s short­hand for Row­ing Machine appar­ently – I’m not sure if it is acronym­ous, or if it rep­res­ents the noise the aver­age per­son makes while being sub­jec­ted to oper­at­ing it), one will be oper­ated con­tinu­ously for 20 hours, and the second, dear read­er, is for you to have a go at.

The row­ers have been dili­gently scour­ing their neigh­bour­hoods, fam­il­ies, and fam­il­ies’ busi­ness col­leagues get­ting spon­sor­ship, and on the day, those not ERGing will be shak­ing tins & per­suad­ing punters to part with a little Xmas dosh. All for a good cause – those ERGs & the boats don’t grow on trees you know.

So head on down for a look – 91FM & the Black Thun­ders will may be down there at 6pm Fri­day dis­pens­ing cheer & freestuff – or if you hap­pen to be passing, please do donate a little spare ping for, as I may have men­tioned, a very good cause.

And of course, you have the oppor­tun­ity to try an ERG for your­self. It has to be good for you right?, and there is almost no chance you’ll end up in the lagoon. Bonus.