The Club's Results
Clare Novice Regatta, Mich Term 2015
A side-by-side knock out regatta for Cambridge College novice (beginner) VIIIs
Sat 28th November
The official results published by the organisers, Clare Boat Club, can be found here. At the bottom of this page there is a link to Cambridge weather. Club members, please go here to add (or correct) results, crews or race reports.
1st men's novice VIII, Cup
2nd round
Beat Clare by 2 lengths
Beat Clare by 2 lengths
A strong start for NM1 in Clare Novices regatta. Although the rowing wasn't as clean as later in the day, we moved on clare pretty quickly. After striding it out several times in the second half of the race we won by 2 lengths
Quarter finals
beat Catz by 2 lengths
beat Catz by 2 lengths
Absolutely awesome, best race of the day in my opinion. Both crews had good starts, with Catz pulling away slightly in the first 100m. But we remained faithful to our strong rythmn, and rowed long into the headwind. Slowly eating away at the Catz lead, we came back to terms and began to move through them. Catz stern three lost their timing, and we rapidly moved up to a length, moving out to two lengths pretty soon after. A solid win, and a great race.
Semi finals
Beat Wolfson by 2 lengths
Beat Wolfson by 2 lengths
After the big change we made for the last race, we were looking forward to getting onto a strong rythmn early in the race. Wolfson were not as strong as Catz had been, so we moved throught them very quickly. Stride stride stride; win.
Final
Lost to Fitz by 1 1/2 lengths
Lost to Fitz by 1 1/2 lengths
Another great race where we settled onto a strong rythmn. Unfortunately, Fitz had been rowing in their crew for 3 more weeks than us so had more speed than us, although I would say the rowing in our boat was technically cleaner.
Both crews got off to a strong start, but Fitz slowly built up a margin on us. Despite several big pushes, they held us, the moved up to 3/4 length lead by the railway bridge. We kept pushing right to the line, but at the end of a long day of racing, we didn't have the legs to take back the distance. Another solid row and a fantastic result - lots more speed to come in the week before Fairbairns.
1st women's novice VIII, Cup
Quarter finals
Lost to Downing NW1
Lost to Downing NW1
A very good row.
Took nearly a length off the start and looked very strong.
Responded well to Downing's push and despite being brought back to quarter of a length, they looked like they could have held them off all the way to the finish.
The race was marred by poor umpiring with little consideration for the wind conditions.
After a gust brought us into the bank, the girls recovered well and the build to the finish was inspired.
Overall the row shows great promise for Fairbairns on Thursday.
2nd men's novice VIII, Cup
2nd women's novice VIII, Plate
3rd men's novice VIII, Plate
4th men's novice VIII, Plate
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Links
Full Clare Novice Regatta results archive