Maggie and I rowed with our blades off the water for the first time last week in the pair. We have rowed the pair a half a dozen times, sporadically. We were steady-state rowing, each of us concentrating on our own rowing, when I noticed how quiet it was as we slid up the slide on the recovery. That’s when I realized we were rowing with our blades off. I thought to myself, “Don’t say anything. You’ll jinks it!” I could sense that Maggie noticed at the same time I did. We just kept rowing until the joy of the moment got the best of Maggie and she said, “Do you realize we are rowing with our blades off?” Jubilantly I shrieked, “Yes!” and five strokes later we lost our groove. We stopped and rejoiced in how sweet it was. If we did it once we can do it again. We rowed easy the short distance back to the AC and the row was capped off by a perfect dock by Maggie. Can’t wait for our next row.