Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

Scipio90

Hmm, no, but that's an intriguing idea.

Well, you don't know Jack, who rowed for City- but he wore a Mankini, plus the curly wig and borat sunglasses, to race in for the Christmas Head the year before last.

In the snow.

Mentalist. But he won the fancy dress competition...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_cambridge/displayarticle.asp?id=374105

Reply 1923

You've blatantly just linked to that because it mentions your costume as well :tongue:

Reply 1924

Scipio90

You've blatantly just linked to that because it mentions your costume as well :tongue:

Nah, the article only mentions the Chesterton crew at all because the author of said article was rowing in that boat, dressed as a storm trooper!

Reply 1925

Chewwy

marhsalled this morning. not a single boat that looked remotely competent out. depressing.

Reply 1926

Talking of incompetents: Yesterday, James has to shout at an some idiots taking the LMBC tub out. neither of the two in the coxes seat had lifejackets. It must have confused the hell out of them as well, to have rowing instructions shouted at them from a 'river gypsy' on a 'barge'!

And earlier the same day, an incomptent St Ives IV nearly got themselves killed by swerving onto the wrong side of the river, for no reason that we could see, in front of our narrowboat. Luckily, by going hard astern, we were able to avoid sinking them and breaking their boat...

Reply 1927

Only beaten by 1 women's crew. That's a result as far as I'm concerned :tongue:

Reply 1928

katie1990

Hi everyone, I'm also coming to Cambridge this year and was wondering what sort of times girls need to be getting in 2000m ergs to be looking at high-ish college teams?

Reply 1929

Did anyone else see the LMBC girls boat out yesterday at about 12 where only 7 of them actually had blades, despite there being 8 in the boat (and a cox)? The girl at 2 was going through the motions of the stroke, but with an invisible blade. Very odd!

Reply 1930

Scipio90

Only beaten by 1 women's crew. That's a result as far as I'm concerned :tongue:

If that women's crew was City W1, bear in mind that, last year when I was coxing them, we could keep up with City M1 on a short sprint, there's no shame in being beaten by them! :wink:

Reply 1931

Your shipment of EPIC FAIL has arrived.

Reply 1932

AlexG55

FadeToBlackout

Your shipment of EPIC FAIL has arrived.

Yes, that was unfortunate- there's a big thread about it on the banter boards.
What basically happened: Emma M2 overshot where they were supposed to park while marshalling, so the cox decided to back it down all 8 :erm:

For some reason, stroke lost his grip on his blade at frontstops :o:

At exactly that moment, the cox decided to lean out to see what was happening :eek3:

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FadeToBlackout

If that women's crew was City W1, bear in mind that, last year when I was coxing them, we could keep up with City M1 on a short sprint, there's no shame in being beaten by them! :wink:

Yes, I think it was.

Now I have to go and sort out a cox for 2 weeks when our regular one is going to be away. Rowing is making me develop so many life skills it's actually a bit worrying :tongue:

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Scipio90

Yes, I think it was.

Now I have to go and sort out a cox for 2 weeks when our regular one is going to be away. Rowing is making me develop so many life skills it's actually a bit worrying :tongue:

Another odd thing I saw on Saturday: A Christs crew (I'm fairly sure it was Christs) were rowing past Queens with an inflatable sex doll on the bow! :confused:

Reply 1935

AlexG55

For some reason, stroke lost his grip on his blade at frontstops

At exactly that moment, the cox decided to lean out to see what was happening

Oddly enough though, the incident report to British Rowing will have to classify it as "Capsize due to incompetence".

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