St Catharine's College Boat Club

Day 2 for W1 was full of unexpected drama. 

We were chasing a Queens crew we knew were slower than us, and being chased by LMBC. We quickly pushed on to Queens off the start and got our first whistle shortly after the motorway bridge. From looking at the video we had overlap three times in 5 mins! Coming around Grassy we were basically on top of Queens and about to finish off the bump. However, Newnham were impeded by Caius and caught a boat stopping crab. Queens, who had been lengths off Newnham, then rowed past them and assumed that they had bumped. 

We really had no idea what had happened and so raced onto the reach, but our rhythm had been disrupted, and Emma's leg injuy was causing her a lot of pain. The result was that we were bumped by LMBC on the reach. 

This was obviously unfair! Newnham were awarded a technical row over, LMBC kindly conceded the bump and also took a technicial row over. We agreed to a re-row with Queens before the W3 divison on Friday.

Bumps is never boring!