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21st Jun '06	FaT end year solidly!	by pks
After a very promising Mich and Lent term, First and Third braved the waters of the Cam despite all vicious constraints inherent in Cambridge exam terms. This led to thoroughly sound performances all around and a lot of fun for all those involved behind the scenes, in the organisation of the "FaT Bumps" and, of course, the crews. Competition in the Getting-On-Race was fierce for the Men this year, as only three places were up for grabs. As a result, our very promising 6th men and worthy and distinguished Fellow's VIII did not get to participate in the Bumps. Well done to them for putting in the preparation throughout the term, though! Racing througout all divisions was a lot more exciting than in most terms, but seemed to mysteriously follow Jenny Lee's BumpIt predictions most of the time... The bottom divisions were, as always the most adventurous and our 5th men made good use of this, rowing a grand total of 6 gutsy races and bumping up into the 4th division!! The 3rd VIII followed in the footsteps of a series of very experienced 3rd VIIIs and a string of up 3's or 4s. A challenging position to defend! The girls fought hard against their overpowering competition and had fun with the Bumps experience. The 4th Men (Grads) seemed to be reaching for the stars at the beginning of the week. Bumping easily on the first day, they were not contented with a mere up one on the second day, but double-overbumped in great style. Unfortunately, they lost out against a strong Selwyn II in a "sandwich" situation on the second day, where half of the division seemed to be within a couple of feet of each other. They subsequently fell to a very strong Corpus crew, that ended the week up 9 (!). Sad though it was they could not go up 8, one should not play down the significance of going up 4! Well, done, ye Grads! The 3rd men were a serious pair and lazy gents composite, but gelled in true FaT style as the week went on and the Thunderbird harmonies came together. Amongst their accomplishments, bumping the red enemy on Day 2 should probably be rated highest. The 2nd women were unfortunately placed on the first day in that they had a bit of flotsam two crews ahead of them. This denied them the blades they really would have deserved... That said I was never prouder of the crew than during this row-over, which really showed that the women's squad has finally started to develop some real depth beyond the 1st VIII. The 2nd men had people in tears this week. Tears of happiness when they bumped Selwyn M1 heroically, tears of laughter when re-reading interesting message board predictions about how they might fare, and tears of frustration, when Caius M2 did find their form on the last day. Considering their positioning in the first division, staying level is an absolutely awesome result, well done, boys (and Jenny!)! The 1st women's first Bumps race resembled a Triathlon of rowing, flying and swimming. An interesting overhead crab by Christs had Dowining's stern swinging into Grassy wildly and while Churchill and Selwyn got away with a blade clash, Jo reduced the boat speed from full to cruising when her blade became wedged on the Downing cox' back. She then performed a 360° turn and ended with her feet back in her shoes while Erica ejected into the Cam and swallowed a worrying 2 mouthfulls of Cam goo. Needless to say, there was a re-row. Unfortunately, Jo was rather unwell after above incident and so a rather out-of-the-zone Pia subbed in for the two races on Day 2. Christs caused yet more damage when they got themselves caught before W1 could catch Churchill, thus denying the girls blades. Up 3 was still a great result, and we all know what they say about good crews... The 1st men seemed to have their usual interludes with Queens M1, who bumped out in front of them on Day one and managed to get away again on Day 4. In between, however, the guys bumped Downing and Tit Hall and positioned themselves nicely for a shot at a double Headship in 2007. All in all, this was a fantastic set of Bumps, and according to Richard Bullock it has, with our sweeps of events like the Uni IVs, and our great Lents performance, earned the Club the Michell Cup (subject to CUCBC confirmation). I would like to thank the rowers for putting in so much effort throughout the year, all voluntary and remunerated coaches, all supporters and a lively and hard-working Committee. It's been amazing and I hope to see the Club continue its way to the top at all levels of committment. Thanks for a great three years and good luck, Rah rah First and Third, xxxx Pia (3 replies...)
6th Jun '06	BumpIT!	by mcp
The wait is finally over...! BumpIT Mays '06 is here! It's altered slightly from the Lents - to allow ANY (full) division to be predicted. You have to predict at least 2 (3 in the daily game) divisions to enter. It'll then take your best two scores - so it could be worth predicting everything just incase! Aggregate charts and such like are still here and do the same thing. Enjoy! BumpIT website accounts created for the Lents are still on the system. If you can't remember your password you can get a reminder on the main login page. Obviously the Getting On Race hasn't happened yet (I picked the top few GOR entries for now!) and there may be other changes to the start order. When I add any such changes to our May Bumps main page, the changes will be migrated out to existing predictions in a way which preserves as much as possible of the existing competition entry - but you may need to come back and review any affected parts of your bumps charts before the Bumps actually start! Finally, as ever it's been a bit of a scramble getting the updates ready, so please help me by alerting me to any problems that seem to crop up or anything that doesn't make sense! Thanks. (16 replies...)
22nd May '06	Election Results!	by JDTJ
Dear all, I am pleased to announce that the following were elected as officers of the 2006/7 Committee of First and Third Trinity Boat Club at the elections yesterday. Many congratulations to them all, and thanks to those who voted: There was a total of 47 members voting either in person or by proxy. Overall Captain: Erica Thompson. Men's Captain: Pedro Cunha. Women's Captain: Erica Thompson. Secretary: Phil Horler. Junior Treasurer: Adam Blacklay. Kit and Social Secretary (KSS): Harriet Booker. Men's Lower Boats Captains: Lorry Carr, Will Laffan, Andrew Sugden and Martin Yarr (joint team). Women's Lower Boats Captains: Amy Hewer, Sorcha McGinn, Lynsey Porter and Fran Rawlins (joint team). Coxing Captain: Dominic Hockley. Webmaster: Bryn Garrod. The officers-elect will take office at the comclusion of the 2006 Henley Royal Regatta, viz. Sunday 9 July. I, on behalf of the current officers and members, wish them all the best. Under their leadership may the club continue to enjoy great success! Dan The full voting results were as follows (using a single transferable vote system): Webmaster: Garrod = 42, RoN = 0; Garrod elected. Coxing Captain: Allen = 23, Hockley = 25, RoN = 0; Hockley elected. Junior Treasurer: Blacklay = 23, Ostrowski = 11, RoN = 5; Blacklay elected. Kit and Social Secretary (KSS): Booker = 32, Frigot = 4, RoN = 3; Booker elected. Women's Lower Boats Captains: {Hewer, McGinn, Porter, Rawlins} = 16, RoN = 3; {Hewer, McGinn, Porter, Rawlins} elected. Men's Lower Boats Captains: {Carr, Laffan, Sugden, Yarr} = 26; RoN = 2; {Carr, Laffan, Sugden, Yarr} elected Secretary: Horler =24, Jones = 22, RoN = 3; Horler elected. Women's Captain: Thompson = 16, RoN = 3; Thompson elected and put forward for Overall Captain election. Men's Captain: Cunha = 18, RoN = 10; Cunha elected and put forward for Overall Captain election. Overall Captain: Cunha = 12, Thompson = 35, spoilt = 1; Thompson elected. (6 replies...)
17th May '06	2006-7 Club Elections	by mcp
The site has been updated with manifestos for the boat club elections for next year's posts. (Apologies for the two that are missing still - please note this is through no fault of the candidates.) They are here. Please contact webmaster@firstandthird.org to correct any mistakes made during the creation of these web versions. And for those who for whatever reason haven't been reading their email of late (or prefer to read things in blue and gold), here's a reminder about this Sunday: Hustings and elections will take place this Sunday at 1700h in the WLT. Please see below for details of how to vote, either by attending the Elections or by proxy (i.e. if you can't be there in person). I am pleased to announce the following candidates for election to the 2005/6 committee (in alphabetical order of surname): Overall Captain: Pedro Cunha, Erica Thompson Men's Captain: Pedro Cunha Women's Captain: Erica Thompson. Secretary: Phil Horler, Magnus Jones MLBCs: Will Laffan, Lorry Carr, Andrew Sugden, and Martin Yarr (joint team) WLBCs: Amy Hewer, Sorcha McGinn, Lynsey Porter, Fran Rawlins (joint team) Junior Treasurer: Adam Blacklay, Igor Ostrowski Kit & Social Secretary: vacant - please consider standing! Coxing Captain: Charlie Allen, Dominic Hockley Webmaster: Bryn Garrod Copies of their manifestos are available to view (or will be soon) at the boathouse and also online. As yet no-one is standing for the position of Kit & Social Secretary (KSS). Please consider standing so that the club can have some kit and socials next year, and it should be fun to do as well! If you would like to stand, I suggest you chat to some former post-holders, e.g. Amelia Russell (arr36) or Rachel Munro (rjm80). * VOTING PROCEDURE * The candidates will each be invited to make short speech and receive questions from the floor. Afterwards they will leave the room during which further debate may ensue. Silent votes are then cast. The election is made using a single transferable vote system, i.e. voters should state their order of preference for each candidate, including RoN (Re-open Nominations). * PROXY VOTING * If you wish to vote it is recommended that you attend the Elections if possible because then you will have a chance to hear the candidates speak and ask them questions. However, it is possible to have a proxy vote. From Section II.14 of the Club Constitution: 'Members of the Club who, with sufficient cause, are absent from the annual elections, may apply to the Secretary at least three days prior to the meeting, for a Proxy, which they and the Secretary shall sign and date, which shall state: I, N.N., Member of the First and Third Trinity Boat Club, do hereby grant the bearer the right to vote "in loco remigantis", provided that I am absent, at the annual elections to be held on D.D.' If you cannot come to the Elections and wish to have a proxy vote, please reply to me (secretary@firstandthird.org) stating this at least 3 days before the election (i.e. by 1700h on Thursday 18 May). I will then put a permission slip in your pigeonhole with the above statement on it and my signature and date; please sign it as well. You will then need to ask someone who is attending the Elections to vote on your behalf. Please give your permission slip to that person to take with them to the elections. I hope this makes sense and that we have a good turn-out of voters to give the fairest representation of the views of the club. Good luck to the candidates! And to the Club in finding some more candidates! Dan xx (1 reply...)
30th Apr '06	London Marathon 2006	by MHS
FaT and BPBC were well represented in the London Marathon 2006. Erica Thompson, John Earl, Sarah Taylor and Simon Blackburn ran the 26.2 miles on the streets of London along with nearly 40,000 other competitors. They all clocked excellent times, beating a few distinguished athletes on the way. Here are their times (+ a few notable others): James Cracknell 3:00:10 John Earl 3:13:47 Simon Blackburn 3:54:58 Erica Thompson 3:56:17 Sarah Taylor 4:03:35 Sir Matthew Pinsent 4:08:03 Sir Steve Redgrave 5:29:06 They all ran for charity too: Erica for Medecins Sans Frontieres UK, Simon for the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), and John & Sarah for St John Ambulance. You can still sponsor them online: Erica Simon John & Sarah For more information on the race itself, check out its website. Perhaps a team from FaT should take on Maggie next year...?

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