Wildfire, I LIKE that image!!
Unfortunately it was my DH at the front banging a drum to keep us in rhythm (the slave master, I presume), with 22 of us paddling like fury and one slight boy on the back steering.
It was a riot, and I would do it again.
However, I would like to comment on the RUDE men in the small motorboats whose purpose was to instruct us at the start and to fire the starting gun. THEY WERE RUDE!!
Okay, granted they had to do their job and they had to use a megaphone, but is it necessary to YELL at us, "Get your act together!"? And a few other rude things. We heard a number of people commenting on the fat little *astards.
So I just wanted to say, that if you guys are reading this (which I doubt... probably lying around today with a beer in one hand and the other hand down your pants), "YOU ARE VERY RUDE!!!"