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JL t-shirts by Erica - Tue 27th Sep 2005, 10:02pm
Has anyone else seen the JL t-shirts that say "ROW FOR PEDRO" on the front and "Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills... feathering skills... catching skills... jumpies skills" on the back? See the JL page . Two (or three) queries: 1. Why Pedro? Is this really random or am I missing something? Is it a quote? 2. What are jumpies? (3. Should I buy one, for $15, or would this jinx my relationship?!?) (7 replies...)

Relative boat speeds by speedy gonzales - Tue 20th Sep 2005, 4:14pm
I was wondering if anyone knows of a reliable table comparing some kind of average boat speed/gold medal times, or anything really to give an idea of relative boat speeds across ALL the different classes. It's very hard to find any info on non-olympic classes, e.g coxed fours, and how they compare, speed wise to other boats. And/or can people offer opinions on this? Is a women's coxed four, for example going to be faster or slower than a women's pair? Women's eights and men's singles? (6 replies...)

Contacts by Andy - Wed 3rd Aug 2005, 3:07pm
I sent an email to the contacts@cucbc.org list this morning, and I haven't yet received it. Can anyone who is also a member of said list confirm that it isn't working please. Cheers. (17 replies...)

HRR qualifiers by Dubya - Sat 25th Jun 2005, 7:53am
Good luck, Tom! (and to the eight too if they are actually racing) (2 replies...)

Bow tie? by Martin - Thu 23rd Jun 2005, 10:31pm
Have discovered I have a spare FaT bow tie. Anyone currently rowing want one? Needs a little bit of a clean and perhaps an iron (can you iron silk?), but is essentially fit for purpose. (9 replies...)

Bumps videos by Martin - Wed 22nd Jun 2005, 4:04pm
I've archived a few videos from Fergus. At some point will work out where these things should really go, for now there are here: 1st men's practice start 2nd men 2nd men's practice start Starting cannons The Downing / FaT / Queens m1 sandwich Grad VIII 1st women's practice start (2 replies...)

Bumps Starts for W1, M2, M1 by Bryn - Tue 21st Jun 2005, 6:25pm
Marshalling opposite the Plough on Friday gave me the opportunity to take some videos of practice starts for the FaT crews in the top Mays divisions. They are here: W1 M2 M1 When I get some more webspace I might put up a video of the Arrows VIII for comedy value...

The Pia Caption Competition by Dan Newton - Sun 5th Jun 2005, 2:40pm
The photo 'No-one could quite believe it when Pia gave birth to what appeared to be nothing more than a bottle of water'

Website groups overload by Martin - Sat 4th Jun 2005, 11:59pm
There is a need to purge lots of old and unused groups from the website. I've put together a list of groups I think we should ditch, can everyone let me know which of the following should be kept. Some older members may object to some of these, but I reckon that many are used so infrequently now that it would be much better, for current members, to kind of start afresh... Rowing groups 1st men's lent viii 1st men's novice viii 2004 2nd men's iv for city sprints 2nd men's lent viii 2nd men's novice viii 3rd men's lent viii 3rd men's novice viii 4th men's lent viii 4th men's novice viii 4th women's lent viii 5th men's lent viii 5th men's novice viii 6th men's lent viii squad grad summer rowing ladies squad (out of date) lower boats - cardinals men's lower boats (lent 2005) novice coxes novice men summer squad 2004 women's 1st may viii (out of date) women's 2nd may viii 2003 women's 2nd may viii 2004 women's first boat squad 2004 women's lent squad 2005 women's mays training camp 2005 women's mich squad 2004 Public groups 1st & 3rd croquet 1st & 3rd trinity cc 1st & 3rd trinity golf club boathouse games food football hayfever sufferers michaelmas coxes new town cinemas non-abelian SU orienteering scum haters summer fun summer rowing tetris ladder the posse tourney unsubscription error comments Private groups 2nd may viii song cucbc senior umpires ed's unsavoury mailing list gossip queens jpd test group kss discussion (only has 1 member) law lords lower boats files (what is this used for?) new committee novice coaches temporary group new test group the fab four the safe list wet people womens elite formal hall squad (out of date?) (13 replies...)

Tide Tables on the BBC by jmg - Fri 27th May 2005, 9:10am
In addition to the controversial new TV forecasts, the BBC seem to have made some quite positive changes to their weather website, including tide tables. Not being a regular on the tideway, I don't know whether this is well known and understood, but I wonder if anyone can explain reasonably simply why the shape of the curve changes so dramatically as you work your way downstream from 'Richmond' Lock to Kew, Hammersmith etc etc etc etc? Also, what effect if any does this have on the stream, particularly where on the curve would you expect the strongest stream? (4 replies...)

Cat n Buns graphic by Atlantic Rowers - Wed 25th May 2005, 8:51am
Does anyone have a good graphic of the cat n buns as it looks on the flag (not on as stitched on kit). Presumably when the new flag was made someone must have had something for that? Any idea what the official colours are for the blue and gold? (1 replies...)

Grand by Simon - Tue 24th May 2005, 7:37pm
I hear OUBC are entering the Grand... any chance of CUBC doing the same?

Novice Fairbairns Videos by Bryn - Tue 17th May 2005, 10:27pm
I know it's taken a while, but I've finally found out how to get some srcf user space and how to use it. Way back at the time of Novice Fairbairns I took some videos of all the crews and I've now added links to them on the results page. I hope all these links work! If you want to see what your rowing was like a term ago you can have a look. I have to say that the videos aren't very good and that my newfound computer expertise (yes, that's right) doesn't extend to knowing a way of compressing them, so they're all around 10MB. And just so that I can get extra practice with links, they're all here as well: 1st novice men's VIII 2nd novice men's VIII 3rd novice men's VIII 4th novice men's VIII 1st novice women's VIII 2nd novice women's VIII 3rd novice women's VIII It's probably not worth it unless you have a fast connection (which I don't, so I haven't checked if any of this works...). (5 replies...)

Bumps pages by KSS - Fri 13th May 2005, 2:36pm
Is it at all possible to have the bumps pages play the Radio 1 'Top 40' tune on loop when people browse them? Or perhaps just when they are looking at the bumps tables? I think it would add a lot to the site. (2 replies...)

BUSA by Give us some competition!-jo - Tue 10th May 2005, 10:18pm
Hi everyone, was at BUSA last week competing in Novice (ARA novice) events and it struck me that your girls were way better than most of the crews we came up against, especially in the iv+ event. I was suprised that only a few crews from cambridge bothered entering (magdalene and CUW) especially since Durham entered a huuuuge amount of boats. How come so few college crews enter? Discuss. (20 replies...)

Book by AHLF - Sun 8th May 2005, 8:20pm
I'm sure I have seen a book at some point which I thought was by Denys Lawrence which includes all sorts of useful information about Boat Clubs including a chapter on captaincy. Does anyone else have any recollection of such a book, and if so, do you have any information about it? (3 replies...)

Where have all the photos gone? by Amelia - Wed 27th Apr 2005, 9:25pm
Lots of photos of happy smiling post-victory people have been taken this year. Not all of them have made it onto the message boards. Those of us without digital cameras of our own, and who have yet to pay Honey for JET prints, are starved of visual evidence of FaT dominance. So all of you people out there with relevant boatie photos taking up space on your data sticks, please post them!!

Blades again by no voice - Sun 24th Apr 2005, 8:29am
Congratulations FaT women. Blades again at City of Oxford Bumps. Death or glory (1 replies...)

London Marathon by mjb - Sat 23rd Apr 2005, 2:49pm
Were there any FaT/BPBC people in the London Marathon on Sunday, other than those listed below ? So far, I've found times for Dan Darley 2.54.49 Becca Downing 4.11.47 For Comparison ... Sir Steve Redgrave 4.21.36 (11 replies...)

Club money by just out of interest - Thu 14th Apr 2005, 1:14pm
Is it the whole comittee who decide what the moeny for the year's going to be spent on, or the overall captain/both captains? Only because it occurs to me we are quite in need of some new boathouse equipment, ergs [of which 3 of which have some kind of fault/weirdness, four of which are pretty unusable] & sliders? And how about another [even secdon hand] scull [maybe one designed for slightly lighter people :)?] or just magpie being fixed. Oh, and some clams. They're approximately £2 each.. :) And, further to a conversation I was having the other day, what about some women's croker blades? Also, wouldn't it be worth saving our money and investing in new men's/women's 8s [especially with the demise of bp3] rather than novice shells? Hope this doesn't start too much of a fight, it is largely out of curiosity, just wondering what the thinking is behind our latest boat buying spree? (28 replies...)

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