The Club's Results
May Bumps 2025
2nd men's VIII
| 2nd men's VIII | |||
| in Black Prince | |||
| bow | Toby Ng | 2 | Hugo Woodhouse |
| 3 | Oscar Allen | 4 | Archie Bentham |
| 5 | Patrick Fleming | 6 | Thomas Gaertner |
| 7 | Daniel Edwards-Medic | str | Luke Barratt |
Coxed by: Will Whitton
Up 3 - Bumped Jesus II, Homerton and CorpusWednesday
Rowed over
Rowed over
Ahh! Ship ahoy!
Our coxswain called,
We're closing on their stern, my boys,
But then Pembroke bumped Jesus II's.
A new target in our sight,
We sprang for glory, looked not left or right,
And hearing cries of cheer, we pushed
But then Emma bumped Homerton.
And so with no-one left to bump we had to row over - admittedly pretty calmly without too much strain.
On to tomorrow - hopefully to get Jesus M2 before first post corner. Bit of a threat from Sidney, but we'll hopefully never give them time to get anywhere near us.
Thursday
Bumped Jesus II
Bumped Jesus II
We did indeed get Jesus - first bump for me!
Lost our bowball to them as they held it up for some reason upon being bumped.
Friday
Bumped Homerton
Bumped Homerton
Day 3, bump 2.
A much more interesting race. Behind us, Jesus II had geared up to try and outrun Sidney long enough for Eddies to clear up behind them, and so had quite a blistering start after us, closing to a length around the railway bridge. We steadily pushed them off down first post reach though.
Not a bad start, but didn't really start to move on Homerton till we were out of the outflow. Once out of the turbulence into the wash (and yes I do have no idea why we went faster there) we just pulled them in stroke by stroke. Bumped them on the exit of grassy, but they didn't concede till nearly half way past the plough. Really impressed with the crew keeping pushing with everything to force them to concede.
Saturday
Bumped Corpus
Bumped Corpus
A very solid final race. We'd been told that Homerton would try to catch us off the start, and sure enough they advanced to 1 whistle fairly rapidly. It was immensely satisfying, then, when they started disappearing into the distance after we held them there for 30 seconds.
With Homerton out of the way, Corpus were now the only thing in our sights. 1 whistle by First Post, 2 coming up to Grassy, nearly at overlap as we started the corner. Then due to a quirk of steering (thanks Will!) we drifted out wide enough to clip the blades of a crew on the outside of the corner. Even this, however, didn't stop us ploughing forwards and we quickly made up the lost distance before finally bumping on Ditton.
A triumphant final day of bumps, and something which Thomas might finally call acceptable...
Links
Full May Term 2025 May Bumps results
2nd men's VIII May Bumps results archive
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