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How should future headships be celebrated?

News from upriver suggests that boat burnings are not always safe. In these eco-aware times, what about the carbon footprint of a burnt boat? And the lack of wooden boats to burn?

Find a wooden boat, even if it means buying a skiff, and burn it		57%

Build a wooden boat and burn it		26%

Give an old boat to an underfunded school rowing club (cf Magdalen Oxford when they went head of Eights in 04, for the first time in decades)		17%

Give money to a FISA project to set up rowing in a small country (on condition that any boats bought are called Black Prince)		9%

Hold some sort of lantern festival with lanterns on boats floating along the backs, timed so that they launch mini fireworks displays as they go past the Wren		4%

Hold a ball on the Monday after bumps		48%

Make all boat club activity carbon neutral		13%

Total: 23 members' votes

by Sam Z - Tue 17th Jun 2008, 7:53am

How about something more Viking-esque? Set the boat on fire (preferably with the bodies of vanquished foes aboard) and set it adrift on the Cam. Should strike fear into the hearts of our enemies... ;)

by dw229 - Wed 18th Jun 2008, 7:47pm

Option 3 sounds like a great way to encourage rowing 6th formers to apply to Trinity...