Bert & Dickie Page #6

Agghh!

What's up?

Nothing.

It's a... twinge, that's all.

It's going. It's going already.

Hey, Bert! Over here!

Ha! Jack!

Jack Kelly.

Oh, c'mon! As long as you're...

I'm fine! I told you - it's gone.

Oi! Mr Kelly! They are training!

As you should be, actually.

Good to see you!

You too. How are you? Yeah, good.

This is, er... Dickie Burnell.

He's... Your partner, yeah.

I heard you'd changed your mind

about taking me on in the singles.

Pleased to meet you. Welcome!

Ah, great to be here.

Where are you staying?

I don't know exactly.

We're getting billeted!

Bert! Bert!

Anyway, I reckon you'll be

all right. We should get going. Yeah.

Good to see you. Thank you.

Good luck. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Best of luck.

You too.

Here, Dickie. Give it a wipe.

Agghh!

Right.

Now, tell us the truth.

Is it going to torpedo us?

No! No...

I've had it before.

It eases off after a day or two.

It's painful but...

It won't affect the competition.

It won't make any difference!

You're getting worse.

What are you on about! We were

miles quicker to the barrier.

Through brute force you were! So you

were knackered on the way back,

which means you finished two seconds

slower than last week,

with a rating of four strokes

higher!

If you two don't discover

some kind of rhythm,

you'll do well

to get beyond the first round.

Except we know the answer.

Long, slow... No! We can't...

paddle through it!

Bert's right, Jack.

We haven't the energy.

Fine. Then solve it your own way.

But solve it!

It's the boat. No. Look, Dickie!

Please. Just, just listen to me...

A bad workman... Yeah, I know that!

But we're both struggling.

And it isn't getting any better.

It's the reason your back's

knackered.

It's knackered due to the number of

starts you've put us through.

They are a problem cos that's when

the rigging gets the most hammer.

I've been sculling like that

for the past eight months.

With a bloke who was 14 stone!

I'm ten and a half!

I'm too high out of the water which

means you're beating up the sculls

to get through the stroke, which you

can because you're so strong,

but at the cost

of wrecking your back.

The truth is, if we dropped

the work by half an inch,

you'd be taking the right amount

of strain

and we'd increase the span

on the stroke! Look... I'll do it.

What?

I'm saying... I was thinking

about it, you know.

It occurred...

What, that I don't know how

to do a re-rig? I don't know.

Captain of boats at Eton.

Blue at Oxford...

I assume they have people.

I can rig my own boat!

The only reason I'm not doing this

one is because it doesn't need doing

and if we start messing around

with it now

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