I've grown out of my boat. Properly — I've put on a serious amount of muscle over the past year, I'm racing at 95kg now, and my current single just isn't built for that. It sits wrong in the water, it's slow, and no amount of technique fixes a hull that's the wrong size for the engine.

It's already ordered — an Empacher, sized right. I've covered the deposit myself. What's left is the balance: CHF 15,000, split into 60 seats at CHF 250 each — one seat, two hundred fifty francs, sixty of us in the boat. Give what you can; CHF 250 is a seat, and every seat gets us closer.

Everyone who takes a seat gets:

— Their name listed as a backer

— A vote on what we name it, revealed at the christening

— A photo from the boat christening

It has to be under me before trials this autumn, so there's a real deadline on this — not a soft one.

I'd love you in the boat.

Nico