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How will First and Third men do at the Eights Head?

Top 50		3%

51-100		0%

101-150		7%

151-200		48%

201-250		24%

251-300		7%

Best Cambridge College crew		7%

Top 5 Cambridge College crews		69%

Overtake more crews than overtake them		38%

Fail to make it to the start		10%

Sink		10%

Blade clash		66%

Beat BPBC		38%

Beat BPBC by 100 or more places		10%

Beat Dev Squad		7%

Correctly steer under the 2nd lamp post at Hammersmith Bridge		59%

Total: 29 members' votes

by Not getting any work done - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 12:36pm

Who is in the crew?

by Martin - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 1:30pm

Not getting any work done said: Who is in the crew?

Matt's put the crew list up in the results section.
I would put a link but rather unhelpfully it doesn't like the long URL. :-(

by Ingers - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 3:52pm

Not getting any work done said: Who is in the crew?

I couldn't find it in 'results' but that is probably due to incompetence. The crew is (crew order not remotely finalised):

Ingram
Colvin
Coker
Patterson
Mycroft
Byrne
Garrod
Thorne

So a crew fairly long on power but perhaps not the most technically able(!) If we keep our minds switched on (highly doubtful) we should do OK.

by Martin - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 4:20pm

Ingers said: I couldn't find it in 'results' ...

For anyone who wants to know...

It is not listed on the Results section front page (the 'Recent Results' page) because there aren't any results yet.

Instead, you could get to it by clicking 'by term' at the top; 'Head of the River Race' is at the bottom of Lent Term 2004. Going into it there then clicking '1st men's VIII' gives you the crew.

Alternatively, on the 'Recent Results' page, scroll to the bottom and in the 3 drop-down search boxes, choose '2004 Lent Term', 'Head of the River Race' and '1st men's VIII' respectively, and it will take you straight there.

by rambling - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 5:09pm

Ingers said: I couldn't find it in 'results' but that is probably due to incompetence. The crew is (crew order not remotely finalised):

Ingram
Colvin
Coker
Patterson
Mycroft
Byrne
Garrod
Thorne

So a crew fairly long on power but perhaps not the most technically able(!) If we keep our minds switched on (highly doubtful) we should do OK.

rubbish. how am i supposed to know whether they'll make it under the 2nd lampost if you don't tell me whos coxing? or is it on a need-to-know only basis (even though i do need-to-know)?

by Ingers - Tue 16th Mar 2004, 11:48pm

OK the cox is Jo Mulvaney - from Peterhouse. I'm afraid I know little more about her other than that she is quite small, doesn't weigh much and hasn't crashed us so far. We're also watching the famous video tomorrow so she'll definitely know about the 2nd lamp post.

by Dan - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 7:48am

actually im pretty sure she is from magdalene, but other than that ingers is right. also she has coxed the IVs head before so should have a rough idea of what ot do.

by mjb - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 8:43am

Dan said: actually im pretty sure she is from magdalene, but other than that ingers is right. also she has coxed the IVs head before so should have a rough idea of what ot do.

Definitely Magdalene.

by Martin - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 9:18am

This poll: Correctly steer under the 2nd lamp post at Hammersmith Bridge: 72%
Ladies' poll, 29th Feb: Get under the 2nd lampost at Hammersmith Bridge: 39%

I notice... double the confidence in a complete stranger coxing the men than in one of our own two weeks ago.

by Dubya - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 4:36pm

Why don't more people think they're going to sink? It would surely round off the term well to trash another boat!

by gf - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 4:55pm

Dubya said: Why don't more people think they're going to sink? It would surely round off the term well to trash another boat!

Perhaps a greater tragedy is anticipated? One might struggle to sink a boat which was lodged up a tree...

by mjb - Wed 17th Mar 2004, 9:10pm

There's no "blown off trailer" option ...

by bailing out - Thu 18th Mar 2004, 11:21am

mjb said: There's no "blown off trailer" option ...

but there is a severe gale warning. enjoy

by Sarah - Thu 18th Mar 2004, 2:27pm

sink?

isn't BPI a Janosek? ie it's buoyancy means you shouldn't be able to sink it? (unless you do something stupid like opening the hatches)

by Fulham Flats - Thu 18th Mar 2004, 4:47pm

Sarah said: sink?

isn't BPI a Janosek? ie it's buoyancy means you shouldn't be able to sink it?

Have you not watched the Titanic?

by Dubya - Thu 18th Mar 2004, 10:53pm

Fulham Flats said: Have you not watched the Titanic?

Hitting an iceberg is much more exciting than running aground!

by Simon - Fri 19th Mar 2004, 7:33am

Dubya said: Hitting an iceberg is much more exciting than running aground!

How do you know? Have you hit an iceberg?

by Inevitable - Fri 19th Mar 2004, 8:36am

Dubya said: Hitting an iceberg is much more exciting than running aground!

Excitement aside, I'm sure the effect could be the same... I wonder how many compartments need to be breached in a Janousek to guarantee sinkage?!

by Sarah - Fri 19th Mar 2004, 11:10am

I feel that running aground fits under my caveat of
"something stupid like open the hatches"

and to be honest, to run aground AND sink, you'd have to run over something that was sticking up under the water (like the posts that those students hit at the Head of the Clyde) - which is fairly unlikely on the Tideway...

by high & dry - Fri 19th Mar 2004, 3:23pm

and to be honest, to run aground AND sink, you'd have to run over something that was sticking up under the water

I seem to remember bow pair 'sinking' when they jumped out of the boat to find that the sandbank we had hit was really quite narrow!

by Ingers - Fri 19th Mar 2004, 3:51pm

As the bowman in that boat I can confirm that as I leapt out of the boat I was very much surprised t6o go in up to my waist!

by gf - Sun 21st Mar 2004, 11:22am

Ingers said: As the bowman in that boat I can confirm that as I leapt out of the boat I was very much surprised t6o go in up to my waist!

It was the same in stern pair - only the guys in the middle "enjoyed" shallow water.

by Ingers - Sun 21st Mar 2004, 6:10pm

And since there was no "it's cancelled option" then no one who voted for any option in this poll was correct although technically I guess we failed to make it to the start (but we did have a paddle before the cancellation)

by londoner - Tue 23rd Mar 2004, 10:33am

Ingers said: And since there was no "it's cancelled option" then no one who voted for any option in this poll was correct although technically I guess we failed to make it to the start (but we did have a paddle before the cancellation)

I'd like to claim some credit for choosing the sinking option... surely had the race actually gone ahead it was a dead cert!

I was busy moving house at the time, and the wind was so strong it ripped a large bit of the van off.

by Dubya - Tue 23rd Mar 2004, 11:44am

londoner said: I was busy moving house at the time, and the wind was so strong it ripped a large bit of the van off.

"Crasher peck" at it again?!

by bailing out - Wed 24th Mar 2004, 12:05pm

i'd like to claim credit for predicting sinking and failing to make the start. ok, they made the start but only because they boated from there....

by It was row-able - Wed 24th Mar 2004, 12:29pm

So actually, given that we both made the start and didn't sink then how much credit are you claiming?