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Cat n Buns graphic by Atlantic Rowers - Wed 25th May 2005, 8:16am
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?

Bumps pages by KSS - Fri 13th May 2005, 9:14am
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...)

Website groups overload by Martin - Thu 12th May 2005, 10:11am
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women's lent viii 5th men's lent viii 5th men's novice viii 6th men's lent viii squad grad summer rowing ladies squad (out of date) lower boats - cardinals men's lower boats (lent 2005) novice coxes novice men summer squad 2004 women's 1st may viii (out of date) women's 2nd may viii 2003 women's 2nd may viii 2004 women's first boat squad 2004 women's lent squad 2005 women's mays training camp 2005 women's mich squad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novice coaches temporary group new test group the fab four the safe list wet people womens elite formal hall squad (out of date?)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...)

Book by AHLF - Sun 8th May 2005, 2:09pm
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...)

BUSA by Give us some competition!-jo - Sat 7th May 2005, 11:27am
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...)

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 - Sat 23rd Apr 2005, 7:18pm
Congratulations FaT women. Blades again at City of Oxford Bumps. Death or glory (1 replies...)

London Marathon by mjb - Mon 18th Apr 2005, 12:19pm
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 - Tue 12th Apr 2005, 11:23pm
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...)

Novice Fairbairns Videos by Bryn - Thu 31st Mar 2005, 12:51pm
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...)

Boat Race times by Bryn - Mon 28th Mar 2005, 1:47pm
In the build-up to the race on ITV they said that the Boat Race was timed to take place when the stream was at its quickest. But the BBC website says that Goldie beat OUBC by 3s. So at least one of these has messed up: (i) ITV (for not knowing about tides) (ii) the BBC (for not being able to time a boat race) (iii) Robin Williams (for not being able to pick the fastest crew) (iv) me (for missing something obvious) Can someone in the know help me out? (2 replies...)

3rd Annual Pre-Boat Race Pub Crawl by mjb - Sat 26th Mar 2005, 10:31am
Sunday service on the trains, meant I arrived at Putney half an hour late, only to find out that the Duke's Head didn't open until 12 anyway. The intrepid group of pub crawlers (Ingers, Graham, Bron, Sarah, me) contented themselves with watching some random boats do practice starts off stakeboats on the river next to us until the pub finally decided to open. Lunch was taken at the Crabtree where Mr. Walker arrived for his habitual late start, followed by Anna and Tom. A push along the Hammersmith bend saw us acquire various extra hangers-on, including Amelia, Catherine, Becca, Henners and Guy and we made it to Cygnet BC for the Blackburn Bonus Pint around 1730 before completing the course a little after 8pm. Back to Blackburn's for pizzas where Graham, perhaps realising he'd finished the pub crawl, promptly fell asleep. Hopefully a fun time was had by all.

The justice by Long overdue - Mon 14th Mar 2005, 2:56pm
Is there going to be a Justice meeting this term? Or has there been one that has just passed me by in my post BCD haze? (14 replies...)

FaT Men for Headship by shocked by Caius - Thu 10th Mar 2005, 7:07pm
My Goodness! To help Lilie make up numbers (and finally resurrect my profile on the social scene) I went to formal with the Caius 1st Men last night. Most of them were decent folk, but their captain was pretty much the epitomy of arrogance and the recurring presentation of Headship medals unnecessary. (I apologise for failing the Mission Abduct Dave's Pride by the way.) I suggest to whomever this may concern post Henley, to incorporate in the 1st Men's Lent training a formal swap with their Caius counterparts. There is so much to be said for a race rowed on pure hatred!

Plea for Pretty Photos by Rich/Dan - Wed 9th Mar 2005, 10:05am
I'm looking for a photo or two of Cambridge rowing to put into a document that I'm writing. The criteria are: - Must be taken by a club member (i.e. not Jet, so we can use it without copyright issues) - Preferably showing people rowing well - Preferably showing lots of crowds on the bank - Preferably in summer Can anybody help? Separately, if anybody can find a photo thats shows off a company sponsoring one of the boat clubs (e.g. their name very obvious on a splashtop) then that would be fab too. (7 replies...)

Anyone good with Photoshop? by Dan/Rich - Mon 28th Feb 2005, 9:06am
We're looking for someone who can spare an hour or so and has access to paint/photo software to doctor a picture for us. I don't think this will take too long but neither of us have anything on our computers that will do this (and can't install new stuff at work). If you can help please drop me an email and I'll explain more... Thanks (5 replies...)

BOP REQUESTS by KSS - Tue 22nd Feb 2005, 3:42pm
Anyone got any NEW beats they want to feature in the JPD Lent Bop mix? Rupert will be there so the more we get, the less likely S-Club Juniors will be to appear. As ever JPD and I will read your requests with interest and then totally disregard them in favour of our own tastes. (4 replies...)

Multicultural crews by Just wondering... - Thu 17th Feb 2005, 8:41pm
I'm one of two home students in the 2nd Lent VIII, leaving seven overseas students and a total of six countries represented in the boat (or seven if you count Wales...). Has FaT ever produced such a mutlicultural boat before? (8 replies...)

Chris Harding by Martin - Wed 16th Feb 2005, 12:26pm
Anyone have a contact email address for Chris Harding? (1 replies...)

Bit of a test by Martin - Tue 8th Feb 2005, 3:30pm
Apologies for random posting - just trying out browsing & posting from my new phone. Seems we could be expanding the bumps coverage this year! Incidentally, my new phone number is 07813 711665 and should be working... (1 replies...)

Women's 'VIIIs' by Bryn - Mon 7th Feb 2005, 3:34pm
Am I the only one surprised by the number of people in all but the 1st women's VIIIs?

Calling mathmo students by Dan - Fri 4th Feb 2005, 2:49pm
Erm, I used to be a mathmo student but sadly am no longer either a student, or any good at maths. Can any of you give me an equation to link watts with 500m split on an erg (I guess put the split in seconds makes it easier). The concept site has data but no formula... http://www.concept2.co.uk/guide/guide.php? article=watts_conversion (6 replies...)

w horr vs bumps by jo - Sun 9th Jan 2005, 7:56pm
totally random i know but does anyone know if bumps end on same day as women's tideway? (12 replies...)

CUBC Technique by jo - Mon 13th Dec 2004, 10:12pm
I am living under the cloud of DREADFUL technique at uea so i went to have a look at the CUBC technique page that was so good in getting wolfson into shape....and i can't find it! has it disappeared from the cucbc pages forever or is this temporary? Has anyone got any links to other resources similar? its only 4 and a bit months to BUSA! cheers guys (3 replies...)

Crossing over by Lilie - Sat 4th Dec 2004, 5:33pm
After nearly being crashed into by a city VIII at the cross over point [well ok it wasn't that close but it could have been!] Can I just ask - why? Why, at an arbitrary point in the river do we have switch sides? Seems a bit odd.. and dangerous, to me. (2 replies...)

Bop Requests by jpd - Mon 22nd Nov 2004, 3:25am
No S Club Juniors please. (18 replies...)

T-Shirts by Becca - Sun 31st Oct 2004, 1:09pm
This is primarily for the benefit of Tom and John, and relates to a conversation about t-shirt slogans that we had several yrs ago...: I'm currently rowing with a girl from Oriel. They did come up with the t-shirt slogan: 'L'Oriel, because we're worth it'

ARA library by Simon - Fri 27th Aug 2004, 12:31am
The ARA has copies of old British Rowing Almanacks available for people to look at in Hammersmith. Some of the older ones (e.g. early 1900s) have detailed descriptions of races at Henley and on the Cam involving Trinity boats. If anyone in the club is keen enough to come and look through these and get information (e.g. for this website) then let me know and I shall try to arrange something.

strokesider (female) for S4 eight by Sarah - Thu 5th Aug 2004, 12:12pm
Hello I'm currently coaching and coxing the Mortlake intermediate squad. We are going to Stourport Regatta this weekend, but one of the girls is ill so won't be able to come. the main problem is the eight - on saturday we have a straight final (non-qualifying) at 3.50pm so is there ANYBODY out there that knows a female with less than 4 points who could help us out? we could probably manage if you are a bowsider as we have someone who can swap. Stourport is just south of Birmingham, we could probably pick up someone anywhere en route from SW london please email me asap if you can help? (3 replies...)

2nd VIII clip by ipe - Wed 30th Jun 2004, 2:23pm
I've put up a video clip of the 2nd Men's VIII doing a practice start, taken by Chris Stone during the May bumps. It's a 7.3mb mpg file, here (1 replies...)

LARD Top Tens for the year by Lard Man - Wed 16th Jun 2004, 11:30am
Here we have Top 10 users in the fields of LARD, Items and Lard per Item coefficient LARD: Name Lard Items Coeff 1. djh 4680 231 20.3 LARDiest Man, Best Coefficient 2. cm 3880 430 9.0 3. jpd 3211 621 5.2 LARDiest Triallist, Most Items 4. tdc 2996 364 8.2 5. ccsi 2515 491 5.1 6. mjb 2460 578 4.3 7. rb 2402 243 9.9 8. wat 2254 221 10.2 9. amd 2212 306 7.2 LARDiest Woman 10. twr 2155 253 8.5 LARDiest Bufty ... 17. accw 1393 178 7.8 LARDiest Cox Items: Name Lard Items Coeff 1. jpd 3211 621 5.2 LARDiest Triallist, Most Items 2. mjb 2460 578 4.3 3. ccsi 2515 491 5.1 4. agrs 1522 476 3.2 5. cm 3880 430 9.0 6. tdc 2996 364 8.2 7. arr 1344 322 4.2 8. amd 2212 306 7.2 LARDiest Woman 9. egh 1638 285 5.7 10. js 1806 266 6.8 ... 11. twr 2155 253 8.5 LARDiest Bufty 13. djh 4680 231 20.3 LARDiest Man, Best Coefficient 19. accw 1393 178 7.8 LARDiest Cox Coefficient (min. 20 items) Name Lard Items Coeff 1. djh 4680 231 20.3 LARDiest Man, Best Coefficient 2. hsc 1318 82 16.1 3. wgk 1689 107 15.8 4. jwg 987 66 15.0 5. jwe 1968 142 13.9 6. riap 601 46 13.1 7. elt 413 32 12.9 8. ctmn 623 53 11.8 9. jl 1064 92 11.6 10. df 371 35 10.6 ... 27. twr 2155 235 8.5 LARDiest Bufty 34. accw 1393 178 7.8 LARDiest Cox 42. amd 2212 306 7.2 LARDiest Woman 53. jpd 3211 621 5.2 LARDiest Triallist (6 replies...)

Camera Found by Martin - Mon 14th Jun 2004, 10:26am
My camera is found. Thank you to everyone who expressed pity or helped to track it down. It was safely stowed away in a top secret location in Great Court. :-)

drunk lbc SAYS... by glass vandal - Sat 12th Jun 2004, 9:23pm
Mr Law is a legend. Those of you who didnt see my pink shoes, study the photos. they are legendary. What a good dinner. nuff sed. p.s. thanks to hattie for dealing with mich-term-me

drunk lbc SAYS... by glass vandal - Sat 12th Jun 2004, 9:21pm
Mr Law is a legend. Those of you who didnt see my pink shoes, study the photos. they are legendary. What a good dinner. nuff sed

Eton boy and his hat by Esther - Thu 3rd Jun 2004, 10:50pm
Why isn't there a picture of eton boy and his hat anywhere? it seems ridiculous that there isn't one... (5 replies...)

May Term Bop Requests by KSS - Wed 2nd Jun 2004, 1:35pm
Get imaginative or else it'll be four hours of S Club Juniors and Belinda! You have been warned... (32 replies...)

Punting vs. Maggie by Maggie Beater - Sat 22nd May 2004, 5:52pm
Thursday 17th of June marks the day when justice will be meted out to all Red Scum everywhere, by proving our superiority on yet another stretch of the Cam. Sign up on the diary page now to enter a crew in the inaugural punting race vs Maggie. They reckon they've got it sorted, so i hope to see a couple of elite squads of punters on the list, to prove FaT greatness [which shouldn't be a problem anyway, as I get to make up the rules :)] (4 replies...)

Can you help please by Dan - Fri 14th May 2004, 12:37pm
Hi, Does anyone know if TOPS is still active and if so who is the current president or secretary or whatever? (TOPS = Trinity Outdoor Pursuits Society). If so either reply to this message or email me direct. Cheers Dan

May Term Lard by The Lardmeister - Wed 5th May 2004, 9:59am
A new term, and a new LARD competition. Here's the Lard Standings for the term so far ... :o) Name Lard Items djh 634 22 rb 298 24 hsc 260 15 ccsi 218 36 jpd 201 17 tdc 159 26 gm 150 12 aml 141 16 arr 137 20 jwe 126 6 js 123 17 wat 109 8 acl 91 11 amd 86 17 agrs 81 10 cema 73 11 rjm 64 11 djtn 62 7 cm 57 12 ad 57 15 twr 56 12 mjb 55 24 pjh 49 10 mhs 48 5 elt 46 7 djb 35 8 sat 34 20 bjg 32 4 wgk 30 5 riap 29 2 hd 24 3 kn 23 1 jl 21 2 sjc 18 4 dw 18 12 jwg 17 2 dn 15 2 csd 12 3 mw 12 14 pks 8 13 rhd 6 1 cc 6 2 epp 6 5 rka 6 32 tf 3 3 (18 replies...)

Kit Suggestions by KSS - Sat 24th Apr 2004, 1:37pm
Does anyone have a burning desire for any additional items of kit that are not currently available on the kit order? Speak now... (3 replies...)

Crew Hall by Rupert - Thu 15th Apr 2004, 11:00am
I need your suggestions for what to do about crew hall this may term, given we can't use the minstrel's gallery. Can we find a room near the kitchens? Or how about a picnic?? (80 replies...)

Google Ranking by dw229 - Wed 7th Apr 2004, 12:11pm
It have recently noticed that typing my full name into Google yields my rower profile as the number one result! Fame at last, amongst all the Daniel Walkers in all the world... Anyway, is this a general FaT phenomenon and what's changed, other than this site's immense popularity... (19 replies...)

Bumps photos online by Amelia - Thu 26th Feb 2004, 12:09pm
Bumps photos taken yesterday and Tuesday can be viewed online at www.jetphotographic.com and also at www.edeandravenscroft.co.uk/eventpix (password CAM). There are some quite good ones, especially individual pictures of the 2nd women after bumping yesterday.

Celeb Boat Race by Simon - Wed 25th Feb 2004, 5:01pm
Oxford won the celeb boat race on the Tideway this afternoon. The crews clashed around Fulham football ground and the race was halted for a restart. Oxford seemed to be coping better with fairly splashy Tideway conditions and moved away to about a length and a half lead by the finish at Hammersmith Bridge. (2 replies...)

Going to get wet... please help! by Lilie - Thu 19th Feb 2004, 1:06pm
Would anyone like a bit of a laugh? id like to go out sculling, (i guess it's too late to ask for this [thurs] afternoon?) but need a "competent" bank steerer - ditto me and erica in a pair this sunday (this should be especially funny, i would imagine..!) so if any of you want to witness me/me + erica drowning in the cam, please let me know..! Thanks Lilie vlw26 p.s i have quite a nasty timetable, but can do this weekend mostly.. and then i guess after bumps. (3 replies...)

Lent Term Bop Requests by KSS - Mon 16th Feb 2004, 9:21am
Tell me what you want, I might put it in... (4 replies...)

A cox for the 2nd Women by You know you want to, Chris! - Fri 13th Feb 2004, 12:47pm
Ode to Chris Pedder Thou that hast more experience in steering a boat than God has in guiding the stars, we beg thee, we plead with thee, descend! once more amongst the ranks of mortals to cox us. In this our darkest hour when all have failed us, it is but the halo of your glory that may lead us to the end of the tunnel. Reliant we are, in thy valiance we trust, our hopes and our lives on the river Cam. (20 replies...)

Please buy me some nice lucozade :) by Berry Fiend - Sun 8th Feb 2004, 2:52pm
please can we have some dark berry lucozade for the lard cupboard?? i like it lots :) (12 replies...)

Lent 04 LARD Requests by The Lardmeister - Sun 11th Jan 2004, 1:17pm
I'm going shopping for LARD tomorrow, so if you have any sensible suggestions or old favourites, can you put them down here. (15 replies...)

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