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	May Bumps, May Term 2004 re The start, smoke from the guns beyond the bridge by critical to the last - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 1:46am this one photo says so much, in particular why they changed crew order for days 2,3 and 4

by Back in the day. - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 8:08am
critical to the last said: this one photo says so much, in particular why they changed crew order for days 2,3 and 4 Well, Martin Watton (2) was unavailable on Friday - so we parachuted our coach, Jo Grundy, into the 4 seat, and I moved forward one place, and Chris D moved from 6 to 2. I had turned down stroking it earlier in term - but we put a backup plan into action on Saturday. We went out looking for the overbump. Got to about 2 lengths. In the end, the real "crime" was getting bumped by Downing on day 1. We really should have hit Maggie for the 3rd VIII headship - we were faster than them. It's interesting that this boat contained 2 people who are now the Lents Headship holders - and a further 2 people who later rowed in boats in the 1st division of the Mays (and I'm not sure what our cox's record was - as we borrowed her from Pembroke - would have been ironic if we had have got the overbump on Pembroke II on the last night.)

by almost forgot - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 8:12am
Back in the day. said: It's interesting that this boat contained 2 people who are now the Lents Headship holders - and a further 2 people who later rowed in boats in the 1st division of the Mays Oh, and when Jo was subbing, we had someone else who has rowed-over head (and former lightweight-blue president).

by Phil - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 9:20am
Hhhmmmm, that photo has always been quite embarrasing. Thanks for drawing attention to it Martin! In defence of the crew, that does appear to be the 2nd stroke on the 1st day, and we really weren't quite as bad as it makes out. At least most of strokeside seem to be doing alright....

by Martin P - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 12:45pm
critical to the last said: this one photo says so much, in particular ... ... what a heavy night at Cindy's does for your catch timing! (Check out the race report)

by Martin P - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 12:55pm
critical to the last said: this one photo says so much, in particular why they changed crew order for days 2,3 and 4 The crew change was clearly inspired by this picture... caption says it all really! ;-)

by Richard - Sat 10th Mar 2007, 2:42pm
Martin P said: ... what a heavy night at Cindy's does for your catch timing! (Check out the race report) I think I was probably, in hindsight, a bit harsh with the race report. I don't think the performance had much to do with Henry's night out. I was probably frustrated - it was my 5th consecutive bump down. :-(

by dw229 - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 5:02pm
Martin P said: The crew change was clearly inspired by this picture... caption says it all really! ;-) It actually looks like Henry has fallen asleep in that photo, thereby demonstrating the validity of the 2001 2nd May VIII's song lyrics.