19 jan 2018 boat of the day

CaptAmehrican posted a pic said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 6:16am ET

Today I could use a vacation. One of my favorite vacations involved going to Italy. Venice has these great gondolas and learning how to row one while tipsy on wine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola
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CaptAmehrican said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 7:57am ET:

Has anyone else been on or rowed one?

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- @CaptAmehrican The Venetian in Vegas is as close as I got.
  
  ACraigL said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 8:43am ET
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aetris said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 10:15am ET:

They let you row your own gondola? I thought it was poled or had a sweep or something.

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- @aetris i rowed one belonging to a hot italian guy
  
  CaptAmehrican said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 1:13pm ET
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daveinwarsh said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 12:27pm ET:

Just no to Gondolas in Venice.
The waterways and canals are still used for sewage disposal, and the last time the canals were cleaned (1950’s), they just dumped the mud in the lagoon.
I’d really hate a gondola accident causing me to fall into that.
The Las Vegas one sounds cool though.

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Shrdlu said Fri, Jan 19th 2018 at 1:12pm ET:

Here you go, then…nice clean gondolas in SoCal.

https://www.coastalliving.com/travel/california/canal-zone

/giphy gondola in california

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