Two of a kind

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A pair of venerable rowing boats on the River Nidd at Knares borough, North Yorkshire, their glowing, varnished wood starting to show the effects of use and weather.

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"A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going."
Anonymous

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61, 65, and more

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Green and red rowing boats lined up on the River Nidd at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, wait patiently for the first customers of the day.

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"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
Jean-Paul Satre (1905-1980), French existentialist philosopher and writer

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Beached hulks

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I don't know how many years these wrecks have been stranded on the banks of the Wyre estuary at Fleetwood, Lancashire. But time and tide are certainly taking their toll.

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"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet

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