Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

Reply 740

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3

johnrambo

I stand corrected.

Haha, so what happened exactly? I know we've got a broken boat and two wet rowers, but other than that?

Reply 741

Chewwy

17

shunter7634

You guys better get your act together - we were denied a race yesterday by a catastrophic Peterhouse performance, and if we don't get a decent go at Magdalene II again on Saturday because they bump you after 150m, I won't be happy...

you seem to be assuming magdalene will be behind us on saturday. how very rude.

Reply 742

johnrambo

2

CamRob

Haha, so what happened exactly? I know we've got a broken boat and two wet rowers, but other than that?

Well I can't say I was in the best position to see, but as we rowed past they seemed to have mounted King's rather convincingly. At this point I assumed (and hoped) that they had secured the bump, although King's' greenery indicated that there had been something of a pile-up coming into the gut. Quite how our cox got an unsteerable boat through it all, I'll never know.
Broken boat and two wet rowers...? We're the real casualties - rowed ourselves into early graves to hold off Christ's at a canvas from Ditton and now we have to do it all again because those muscle-bound muppets couldn't catch King's in time. If we'd known we'd get a technical row-over by just piling into the carnage, we would have joined the fun rather than put ourselves through that hell (again).

Reply 743

FadeToBlackout

OP

15

www.rowing.ucam.org has a thread about the details; Kings cleared to the side but didn't clear in fully in time, and so Fitz managed to get between the parked Kings boat and the bank. Ouch.

http://www.cucbc.org/node/999 has details of the fine.

Reply 744

Helenia

20

I fined a crew yesterday. :biggrin:

Reply 745

Chewwy

17

woo! yes, we got soaked, yes, we got bumped, but today was really good fun, and we rowed well!

Reply 746

FadeToBlackout

OP

15

Chewwy

we did awesome today!

How far did you get? :smile:

****

ARGH. In short. 500 metres of being a canvas back, half a length of overlap around Ditton as they went stupidly wide, and then just a lack of "grr". :frown:

Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

Reply 747

Chewwy

17

past the bridge!! not sure exactly, speleo will enlighten us i'm sure..

Reply 748

Chewwy

17

kings women, statistically at least, are immense! even moreso when you consider they have no second or third boat..

Reply 749

Chewwy

17

wow, immense race. FaT II now top second crew, which you could see coming.. kings continuing to do well, caius bumped quick again.. oh well, at least my boat won't be the only one getting spoons :smile:

. and at least jesus is sucking too..

edit: i meant spoons!!

Reply 750

Helenia

20

Chewwy

wow, immense race. FaT II now top second crew, which you could see coming.. kings continuing to do well, caius bumped quick again.. oh well, at least my boat won't be the only one getting blades :smile:

. and at least jesus is sucking too..

I'm not sure you mean the b-words...

Reply 751

Apagg

13

We're not sucking quite as much as Caius :p:

Reply 752

Speleo

7

Chewwy

past the bridge!! not sure exactly, speleo will enlighten us i'm sure..

Ten strokes after the motorway bridge maybe? Hopefully you'll manage a row-over tomorrow though :smile:

Reply 753

Apagg

13

Right, aim for tomorrow, don't give Christs II blades

Reply 754

Nichrome

18

FadeToBlackout

How far did you get? :smile:

****

ARGH. In short. 500 metres of being a canvas back, half a length of overlap around Ditton as they went stupidly wide, and then just a lack of "grr". :frown:

Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

I can't believe Maggie rowed over, looked to me like you had them for sure. Good luck tomorrow Apagg, hope you guys deny them blades! :p:

Reply 755

wazzup

bump 2day in 30 strokes ha.i love those nice short bumps.

Reply 756

Nichrome

18

Chewwy

woo! yes, we got soaked, yes, we got bumped, but today was really good fun, and we rowed well!

I loved the cruiser that held the race up by 20 minutes, he got an awesome amount of abuse thrown at him.

Reply 757

Apagg

13

Which held it up even longer *sigh* Oh well
Looking forward to BCD!

Reply 758

Nichrome

18

I'm missing my BCD because I have a supervision that night at 8.30pm and my supervisor is a **** and refuses to move it. :rolleyes:

Reply 759

Helenia

20

Apagg

Right, aim for tomorrow, don't give Christs II blades

Denying people blades is always sweeeeeet. Good luck with it! Can't remember what I'm doing tomorrow but I should be out there most of the day. Also am v impressed with Clare M1, going for the b-words tomorrow, but even if they don't get it they've done awesomely!

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