The Club's Results

Clearly Dubya was intent on cheating as he did a practice start on his warm up. He also opted not to prepare himself for the race by going and fetching a single from Ely and sculling it back....

A very poor start saw me lose sight of him entirely. My subsequent steering error took me into his puddles, so it wasn't until I extricated myself that I was able to make up any ground. I think I probably did close slightly (as the result shows there was overlap at the finish), but it was not enough.

It would not be fair of me to acknowledge a defeat without moaning about equipment failure at least once, so I shall say for now that the gearing on JPDs blades is not all that sensible for someone of my meagre strength. (Rose the Twat)

A Maggie boy who has had a single digit number of sculling outings was never going to be much of a threat, so this was fairly easy. Credit where it's due though - he also managed to take me off the start (perhaps I need to work on them?) (Rose the Twat)

I had a better start and didn't get dropped this time. Also my cruising speed seemed to be comfortably faster, so I was opening out distance. About 150m in Seb decided to take an early bath, so the rest of my race was spent trying not to laugh at his attempts to get back in. (Rose the Twat)

Fairly equally matched for the first few strokes, I decided to race hard for the final and moved away steadily down the course. A complete lack of inspired sculling for the entire duration of the races was topped off with one of the best bits I have ever done on the row home. Ah well. Thanks to Dyson and Farny (who knocked out the American and French competitors respectively), there will be another RTT Regatta next year, so perhaps by then my racing will have reached the same level as my UT2?

Thanks to everyone who turned up - in all we had 16 people racing which is not a bad turn out (and being a power of two is also easy to organise). Hopefully next year we'll have a few more craft so we can run more than two races at once! A full Henley style result list will go up once JPD has shown me how to use his script to generate them..... (Rose the Twat)