HELP: Bishop - thwarts, strings, gunnels

[Anna Plisetskaya]

Thank you very much, Tom! You've been extremely helpful.

Yours,
Anna


> Anna,
> I think my memory serves me right: when I was rowing in a college
> boat in England in the 1950s, the rowlocks were not fixed to the
> gunwales/sides of the boat; they (the rowlocks) were  loose, so that
> if one rower mishandled his oar [only males rowed competetively, as I
> recall] the mishap was localized, rather than potentially leading to
> rocking the boat, and the rowlock could even come out of its mount.
> However, so that it might not fall over the side into the river, it
> was attached by a piece of thin rope to the gunwale.
> As to 'rowlocks' versus 'oarlocks', this may be a British versus US
> thing. So also for the spelling of 'gunwale/gunnel' which I may have
> wrong.
> I like the poem!
> Tom
>

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