The Club's Results

Novice Fairbairn Cup 1999

A 2700m timed head race on the Cam for Cambridge College novice VIIIs
Thu 2nd December

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1st men's novice VIII

15th of 67 men's VIIIs
Time: 10:45
Oh dear. That wasn't very good at all. (Guy)

1. Returning home on th...
2. Returning home on th...
3. Racing by Downing b.h.
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3rd men's novice VIII

32nd of 67 men's VIIIs
Time: 11:33
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1st women's novice VIII

5th overall
Time: 12:11

1. No wonder they didn'...
2. Racing by Downing b.h.
3. Still not going anyw...
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2nd men's novice VIII

48th of 67 men's VIIIs
Time: 12:19
The Tuesday of Fairbairns week saw us entertain the Homerton women's novices. Things were going very well and I was clearly going to pull their extremely lush ejector girl when Andy Baldwin decided it would be a good plan to climb out of one window of Jonny Constable's room (C4 Angel Court) and back in the other. Unfortunately the shop sign wouldn't take his weight and the pavement didn't take kindly to being landed upon from a great height. Cue one badly broken wrist, one ambulance, multiple porters and two taxis for the wimmin. Mike Turner, who hadn't been in a boat for about four weeks, subbed for Fairbairns... on the wrong side. He caught a crab shortly after the Elizabeth Way Road Bridge and took as long as possible to recover, eventually rejoining us by about the Pike and Eel. Of course, Mike's incident should take nothing away from the ineptitude of the rest of the boat. We spacked down the remainder of the course to finish spectacularly low. (Flying)

1. Early symptoms of ca...
2. Returning home aroun...
3. Racing past Emma, al...
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4th men's novice VIII

66th of 67 men's VIIIs
Time: 14:24

1. The Iron Maiden isn'...

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2nd women's novice VIII

46th of 48 women's VIIIs
Time: 16:26

1. Racing past Emma Boa...

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Crew names

The theme for the 1999 Novices was "The 007 VIIIs":
1st Novice Eight: The Boat Who Beat Me
2nd Novice Eight: ThunderBlade
3rd Novice Eight: GoldenSox
4th Novice Eight: Dr. Row

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