St Catharine's College Boat Club

Saturday didn't go well. We knew that we would either award Clare their spoons or Wolfson their blades, and for most of the course it looked like it would be the former. However when we had overlap on Clare we took a very wide line around Grassy and ended up flying into Darwin, who had parked on the outside of the corner, and Wolfson rowed past. To top this all off, our bow-man Glenn was thrown into the river as he nobly sacrificed himself instead of causing serious injury to the Darwin crew. If Clare weren't on for spoons then they probably would have conceded before we could crash but as it was they didn't.

Overall, this week hasn't gone as expected- two crashes have definitely hindered us! However, we were the best performing Catz crew and only crew to get a bump this week. We also hit something (crew or bank) every day and were never bumped whilst actually rowing.

Finally I would like to thank our coach Chris Eddy who did everything he could to make us into a blades-winning crew- sadly luck was very much not on our side! I would also like to thank M3, who have been great all term despite the 9 of us rarely rowing together due to exams, projects etc.