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| Sliding riggers | |
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For some reason Youtube recommended this video to me (I can only assume from searching for the W1 Lents 2007 video a while ago).
Out of interest is anyone able to explain why this boat has sliding riggers - does it give an advantage, and if so, why? (16 comments...) | |
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| Rowopoly | |
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| We need to play this at the rowing sleep-over people have been chatting about doing. | |
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| Peck would have done better... | |
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| As advertised on Prime Minister's Questions. | |
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| An unfortunate start to a race | |
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| 2 comments... |
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| Windy Day on Hill | |
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| Slow news day elsewhere. Check out the quote half way down the page (1 comment...) | |
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| Bored at Work | |
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| Thought this might be appropriate. | |
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| How many London busses... | |
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| BPBC has previously discussed the use of objects such as the Titanic for comparisons of volume. Here's the BBC admitting that they have some favourite items for odd comparisons... | |
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| Large Hadron Rap | |
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| CERN's latest discovery. | |
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| Water on Mars! | |
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| NASA has just announced the discovery of water on Mars. | |
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| Rowing whilst drunk never works... | |
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| Polar Rose | |
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Still in private beta unfortunately, but you can still sign up for an account.
The browser plug-in recognises (but doesn't yet identify) faces on any webpage you visit, allowing you to tag them with their name. That information then becomes part of the public database which you can search for people by name, and find out who's been photographed with whom... | |
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| Japanese boathouse | |
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| Woah. | |
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| CERN | |
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This is from a brilliant website that gives you photography and sound from some really cool places!
Also check out:
Commissioning the CMS detector
The Atlas detector
The Mars Express control room in Darmstadt | |
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| Stomp - The sequel | |
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| Looks like a beefed up version of the Stomp... (1 comment...) | |
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| Tideway hazards | |
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| From Rebecca Caroe (of Rob Roy)'s blog: ahead of the Tideway Head season, a useful guide to the Tideway hazards, as drawn by her crew's cox. | |
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| Radio 4 programme about rowing | |
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| This will only be available until early evening on 14 Feb, so listen soon. Stuff about what makes a good team, and the boat race, is from about 11 minutes in. A copy has been saved on the desktop of the boathouse computer. | |
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| How to crash | |
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| Reminds me of that Peter Brandt video... (1 comment...) | |
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| Rowing commercial | |
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| Just wondered if M1 would consider doing what these guys do at 1:08 in the film at their next outing... | |
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| Heavyweight rowing | |
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| 2 comments... |
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| Someone likes us | |
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| Nice to see Maidenhead RC highlighting our site for our guide to coxing. (5 comments...) | |
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| Riverside traffic management measures | |
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| Click on the link at the top right to vote on whether or not Riverside should be closed to cars. | |
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| Fairbairns Archives | |
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| Look at the 'Senior VIII's 1990 onwards' section - are Jesus censoring the years we win? | |
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| Is Fatboy Slim a DJ? | |
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| hmm... | |
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| A cox's worst nightmare | |
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| You can even see the strokeman thrown right out! (3 comments...) | |
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| Something else at which to beat Oxford | |
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| 2 comments... |
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| Why? I'll tell you why. | |
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#1 Really? Can't say I've noticed.
#2 I'm glad their bops are as disgusting as ours.
#3 I don't make very much of it. (1 comment...) | |
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| Cambridge Rowing Messageboards | |
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| Now in a new location. | |
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| Baconsalt | |
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| Genius | |
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| FaT memorabilia on eBay | |
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| Apparantly FaT 10th May VIII won blades in 1970... (30 comments...) | |
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| BBC News | |
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| Rowing is really good for us - no more excuses that you've caught something from it! (2 comments...) | |
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| Old FaT kit | |
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| Am getting rid of these kit items, mostly FaT stuff that might be useful to someone, make me an offer by email in the next week or so, or they'll probably go to Africa... (6 comments...) | |
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| Google maps | |
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| Look carefully at the airports that are on the site of Cambridge airport (2 comments...) | |
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| Cracknell is a big wuss | |
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James shows that while he might have made it across the Atlantic, he can't fight for toffee and hits like a girl. The main event is about 4 minutes in.
I reckon that Fogle fella pulled him across anyway... (5 comments...) | |
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| FaT women cause carnage | |
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| I love women's rowing | |
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| Water sports | |
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| Andy shows Tom how it should be done | |
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| Outdoor guider guide to rowing | |
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| Hmm, plagiarism, perhaps? | |
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| Planarity | |
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| Good practice for whoever updates the incest chart. | |
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| Roads4Bikes | |
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| Apparently when some mindless local authority drone puts green paint on the pavement, this will now become compulsory for cyclists. (2 comments...) | |
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| Monopoly - Here and Now | |
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| Everyone loves to skew a web-based popularity contest. Monopoly is currently running a poll to determine which cities should occupy which spaces on their new board; first place takes the Mayfair spot, and so on downwards. Cambridge is currently Bond Street - it should clearly be higher. (4 comments...) | |
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| My Football Club | |
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| Should we be thinking about a more democratic approach to crew selection? (1 comment...) | |
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| Pain... Lactic acid..! | |
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| The rowing is nothing special but just listen to that soundtrack. | |
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| From an old message board | |
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| He just seems to have got the club wrong... (1 comment...) | |
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| So this is why we go so fast... | |
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| ...the college's female rowers look like men. | |
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| Chocolate training | |
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| If the reported heart rate increases are true, maybe we should start doing all UT2 training in the lard cupboard? | |
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| CUBC at the HoRR | |
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| Stroke is hanging at the catch. Unforgivable. He'd better sort it out by next weekend... (3 comments...) | |
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| Google Maps - NY to Dublin | |
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| Rich and Dan's next potential challenge? Check out step 23... (1 comment...) | |
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| Doctor Who? | |
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| I have just discovered the Doctor Who was at some point in the past / future a member of FaT. The trousers are unmistakeable. (1 comment...) | |
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| CUBC to enter the eights head | |
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One rowing headline away from the Cam this week is CUBC's decision to enter the eights head which this year is the weekend before the Boat Race.
An interesting approach to tapering, but maybe JPD can comment on whether in previous years (CUBC have held their penultimate week camp in Nottingham for the past 15 years) the crews have spent the weekend before doing a 5k on the Trent.
My guess is that this may have been linked to the cutting of funding to triallists who refused to join the GB squad for winter training in Reading. Maybe this is an attempt to point out to GB Rowing that they're just as good as Leander.
Another thought is that last year's wash up suggested they couldn't cope with either the Tideway itself or the pressure of a busy race day. (3 comments...) | |
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| Dangerous coxing | |
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It's a hard life being a cox.
Also, am slightly displeased at the appearance of a certain Peter Brandt video on youtube... (3 comments...) | |
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| Cracknell enters Coast to Coast | |
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| Cracknell reckons he's tough enough to crack NZ... (5 comments...) | |
