The Club's Results
Head of the River IVs, Mich Term 2003
A processional head race over the University Boat Race Course for Fours and Quads
Sat 1st November
The official results published by the organisers, Fullers Fours Head, can be found here. At the bottom of this page there is a summary of the results of college crews and a link to Cambridge weather. Club members, please go here to add (or correct) results, crews or race reports.
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Light IV (bow steers), Racing in Richard du Parq, Senior2 IV-
31st of 55 in S2 IV- ; 191st of 504 finishers
Time: 21:20.04
Time: 21:20.04
Not a bad row overall. The time is a little dissappointing though. We had an interesting start with Goldie IV immediately behind us and starting with overlap. Some dodgy steering by them meant that coming through Barnes Bridge they had only just got their nose in front, however soon after they got a bit more sorted and left us behind.
We proceeded to be taken inside and out about Hammersmith by a pair of competing Imperial College and UCL crews which resulted in some foul language from the Imperial boys.
At this stage the boat was going quite well and we maintained this right through until somewhere around 3 min from the finish. At which point we pretty much lost it. Im not sure exactly what went wrong but we failed to gain more than a couple of lengths on a crew that we were 36s faster than over the course. The failure was a technical one though, which is frustrating.
We proceeded to be taken inside and out about Hammersmith by a pair of competing Imperial College and UCL crews which resulted in some foul language from the Imperial boys.
At this stage the boat was going quite well and we maintained this right through until somewhere around 3 min from the finish. At which point we pretty much lost it. Im not sure exactly what went wrong but we failed to gain more than a couple of lengths on a crew that we were 36s faster than over the course. The failure was a technical one though, which is frustrating.
By all choosing to bring enormous quantities of kit down to London we activated Sod's Law and gauranteed glorious weather.
After marshalling for what seemed like ages in a scene that rapidly began to resemble the M25 on a bad Friday evening we had about 100m of rowing to reach the start line and suddenly before we could really realise what was happening we were off. WE got up to 34 and then settled at 33 whicvh became 32 after a minute or so as we had planned. Goldie IV had clearly been motivated by our web poll and elected to _start_ with overalp on our stern. They were clearly faster than us but had clearly spent too much time at Ely and seemed blissfully unaware that the river Thames actually has some bends in it. As Will took an immacculate line around the first gentle corner to Barnes Bridge, they vanished off on the straight towards the marshalling crews. By the time they had returned to a sensible place on the river they had made up approximately 0m on us. Alas, their bowman then worked out what his wobbly footplate actually did and they nudged into the lead by the bridge and then took clear water by the bandstand and charged off downstream.
We settled into a fairly solid 32 that felt OK but were slowly overhauled by Imperial and UL who had started behind us which was a little demoralising. However, we managed a small victory when (correctly) holding our line and thus irritating the IC crew who told us to "move over, you c****". Charming.
The rate remained at 31 - 32 until after Hammersmith when the technique started to fade. At around Craven Cottage this 'fade' became a downright implosion and a series of shipwrecks brought the boatspeed right down. An ill-judged request from me to lift it up 2 at the Black Buoy bought an improvement for about 3 strokes before the wheels completely fell off and the last 2 minutes would have embarrassed a Novice third boat as we spacked home at a pathetic 28. This was rather annoying as it wasn't that we had gone too hard - we just weren't relaxed enough to get it back after a couple of rogue strokes. Sometimes I do think coxes have a role...
The overall time was a little disappointing but if you add on the estimated 25 - 30 seconds that a coxed IV takes then we were still pretty much the fastest Cambridge College boat (though some way behind a few Filth colleges). We probably need to go faster on Tuesday. We will.
After marshalling for what seemed like ages in a scene that rapidly began to resemble the M25 on a bad Friday evening we had about 100m of rowing to reach the start line and suddenly before we could really realise what was happening we were off. WE got up to 34 and then settled at 33 whicvh became 32 after a minute or so as we had planned. Goldie IV had clearly been motivated by our web poll and elected to _start_ with overalp on our stern. They were clearly faster than us but had clearly spent too much time at Ely and seemed blissfully unaware that the river Thames actually has some bends in it. As Will took an immacculate line around the first gentle corner to Barnes Bridge, they vanished off on the straight towards the marshalling crews. By the time they had returned to a sensible place on the river they had made up approximately 0m on us. Alas, their bowman then worked out what his wobbly footplate actually did and they nudged into the lead by the bridge and then took clear water by the bandstand and charged off downstream.
We settled into a fairly solid 32 that felt OK but were slowly overhauled by Imperial and UL who had started behind us which was a little demoralising. However, we managed a small victory when (correctly) holding our line and thus irritating the IC crew who told us to "move over, you c****". Charming.
The rate remained at 31 - 32 until after Hammersmith when the technique started to fade. At around Craven Cottage this 'fade' became a downright implosion and a series of shipwrecks brought the boatspeed right down. An ill-judged request from me to lift it up 2 at the Black Buoy bought an improvement for about 3 strokes before the wheels completely fell off and the last 2 minutes would have embarrassed a Novice third boat as we spacked home at a pathetic 28. This was rather annoying as it wasn't that we had gone too hard - we just weren't relaxed enough to get it back after a couple of rogue strokes. Sometimes I do think coxes have a role...
The overall time was a little disappointing but if you add on the estimated 25 - 30 seconds that a coxed IV takes then we were still pretty much the fastest Cambridge College boat (though some way behind a few Filth colleges). We probably need to go faster on Tuesday. We will.
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1st men's coxed IV, Senior3 IV+
45th of 51 S3 (academic) IV+; 332nd of 504 finishers
Time: 22:25.52
Time: 22:25.52
Not a great result, but at least CUWBC didn't beat us ...
After discovering that the Light IV had managed to get all 8 clams for their 4 blades, which were at Cygnet, whilst we were outside Vesta at the other end of the course, and collecting a 'drop' of said clams deposited by agent Ingram, we had a rather uneventful row down to the start, enlivened only by an Eton bow-loader determined to scrape their race number off using my rigger during the hour or so of marshalling.
We eventually spun in front of Goldie VI and proceeded down towards the start line in a leisurely fashion. As we wound up for the start, we noticed that the Goldie boat had decided to position itself about a foot or so off our stern and their cox proceeded to shout abuse at us whilst they moved out to overtake. With him shouting for us to cede the stream (despite the rules stating the opposite), and Rach not taking the slightest bit of notice of his exclamations, the Goldie boat came past us rather too easily and had successfully completed the manoeuvre by Barnes. After this there was a lull in the action, as there was little further threat astern, whilst the Etonian crew ahead had seemingly buggered off into the distance. Some pushes followed before we caught up with a struggling Magdalene II boat and another crew fighting it out. As we were speeding past, a returning boat decided to cross in the wrong place at the wrong time, forcing Rachel to jink sharply out of the stream. Muttering curses under her breath, our usually mild-mannered cox'n urged us on past Chiswick Eyot and Magdalene.
As we approached Hammersmith (Two-thirds gone, apparently) we went for more pushes, but by now were in the middle of no-man's land. With nothing slow enough left ahead of us, and nothing particularly fast behind us, the momentum sagged a bit coming past Harrods, in spite of our best efforts to keep going. Coming past Barn Elms, it became apparent that crew 348, Uni of Hertfordshire (I think) had managed to catch up with us and had us in their sights. Pushing away, we found some more speed and slowed their assault, but they steadily closed further on us as we pushed all the way to the line.
The general feeling in the crew was that it was a reasonable row, but the results show we were 30-40s off the pace.
After discovering that the Light IV had managed to get all 8 clams for their 4 blades, which were at Cygnet, whilst we were outside Vesta at the other end of the course, and collecting a 'drop' of said clams deposited by agent Ingram, we had a rather uneventful row down to the start, enlivened only by an Eton bow-loader determined to scrape their race number off using my rigger during the hour or so of marshalling.
We eventually spun in front of Goldie VI and proceeded down towards the start line in a leisurely fashion. As we wound up for the start, we noticed that the Goldie boat had decided to position itself about a foot or so off our stern and their cox proceeded to shout abuse at us whilst they moved out to overtake. With him shouting for us to cede the stream (despite the rules stating the opposite), and Rach not taking the slightest bit of notice of his exclamations, the Goldie boat came past us rather too easily and had successfully completed the manoeuvre by Barnes. After this there was a lull in the action, as there was little further threat astern, whilst the Etonian crew ahead had seemingly buggered off into the distance. Some pushes followed before we caught up with a struggling Magdalene II boat and another crew fighting it out. As we were speeding past, a returning boat decided to cross in the wrong place at the wrong time, forcing Rachel to jink sharply out of the stream. Muttering curses under her breath, our usually mild-mannered cox'n urged us on past Chiswick Eyot and Magdalene.
As we approached Hammersmith (Two-thirds gone, apparently) we went for more pushes, but by now were in the middle of no-man's land. With nothing slow enough left ahead of us, and nothing particularly fast behind us, the momentum sagged a bit coming past Harrods, in spite of our best efforts to keep going. Coming past Barn Elms, it became apparent that crew 348, Uni of Hertfordshire (I think) had managed to catch up with us and had us in their sights. Pushing away, we found some more speed and slowed their assault, but they steadily closed further on us as we pushed all the way to the line.
The general feeling in the crew was that it was a reasonable row, but the results show we were 30-40s off the pace.
Yes... A rather casual row, in which we had moments where it felt great (mainly when overtaking - which admittedly didn't happen very much!) but mostly a rather slow performance. The most annoying bit was that a bunch of Etonians ('spit') managed to screw us over quite comfortably.
Lovely boating weather, though and a very boring journey through London traffic.
Lovely boating weather, though and a very boring journey through London traffic.
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<h3><a name="selectedresults">Selected Results</a></h3><h4>University & College crews</h4><p>Here's an overview of the results pertaining to Oxford and Cambridge crews.<br /> <br /> - Goldie III (No. 115 - Jonathon Davies' IV-) were v. disappointed to have to scratch due to illness.<br /> <br /> Format is: Overall Place, Time, Category, Crew<pre> 1 18.18.64 E4x Leander I 4 18.35.04 S1x Imperial I (K.West, Stallard) 8 18.49.86 E4- Leander IV (Williams, J.West, Garbett, Dunn) 10 18.57.87 E4+ Leander V (Pinsent & Cracknell, Coode, Egington, Cormack) 17 19.16.92 E4+ Goldie I 19 19.19.79 E4- Isis I 24 19.25.36 S1- Goldie II 33 19.40.13 E4+ Isis II * 52 20.00.93 S2- CULRC I (Eton Boy) 59 20.08.02 S2+ Isis V 63 20.09.17 S2- Goldie IV 80 20.19.74 S1+ Isis IV 84 20.20.03 S1+ Isis III 119 20.38.75 S3+ Goldie VI 123 20.41.07 S3+ Nephthys I 129 20.45.04 S3+ Goldie V 141 20.55.06 S3+ Nephthys II 167 21.08.68 S3+ Hertford (O) *191 21.20.04 S2- FATTBC(C) I(Thorne(st),Holland,Chamberlain,Ingram) 212 21.30.72 S3+ Wadham (O) *216 21.31.41 S3+ CULRC II (Peacock)(Time Penalty for Traffic Violation) 251 21.46.75 S3+ Boars Head 256 21.48.09 S3+ St Catherines 262 21.53.07 S3+ Pembroke (O) I 267 21.55.89 S3+ Nephthys III 268 21.55.91 S3+ Wolfson (O) 271 21.58.31 S3+ Christs (C) I 283 22.03.49 S3+ Christs (C) II 295 22.08.14 S3+ Magdalene (C) I 301 22.10.26 S3+ Merton (O) 303 22.11.77 S3+ Pembroke (O) II 313 22.17.21 S3+ Trinity Hall (C) 316 22.18.32 S3+ Queens' (C) 319 22.19.57 S3+ University (O) *332 22.25.52 S3+ FATTBC(C) II (Coker,Colvin,Byrne,RupertTheBear,Munro) *347 22.33.85 WS3+ CUWBC III (Cochrane) *353 22.37.37 WS2+ CUWBC I (Lee) 365 22.46.35 WS3+ Osiris VI *374 22.55.69 WS2+ CORC II (Hobson) *396 23.21.66 WS3+ CUWBC II (Doubrovina) 399 23.22.74 WS3+ Osiris III 412 23.38.01 WS3+ Osiris V 414 23.38.07 WS3+ Wolfson (O) 417 23.41.41 WS3+ Osiris IV 419 23.41.84 WS3+ Selwyn (C) 426 23.51.75 WS3+ New (O) 446 24.12.35 WS3+ Caius (C) I 457 24.26.11 WS3+ Caius (C) II *460 24.29.76 WS3+ Vesta III (Chideock) 465 24.34.07 WS3+ Worcester (O) 466 24.38.55 WS3+ Magdalene (C) 471 24.46.65 WS3+ Jesus (C) 481 24.59.49 WS3+ Magdalene (C) II 484 25.10.43 WS3+ Newnham (C) 490 25.34.01 WS3+ Trinity Hall (C) 493 25.44.47 WS3+ Exeter (O) 503 26.52.73 WS3+ Osiris II</pre></p><div align="right"><font size="-1"><a href="#top">^ top</a></font></div><hr>
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