St Catharine's College Boat Club

Rowed Over

The aim for today was simple. Row over, and deny Caius III their blades on what could turn out to be a very successful day for their club. Unfortunately, the practice starts suggested that this could be a tough order, coupled with the fact that they were fresh from three easy bumps, whereas we had drained ourselves almost bumping Hughes Hall yesterday.

Rowed Over

So close, but in the wrong way today. After Fitz II's capitulation on Wednesday, we were left chasing a Hughes Hall crew who were up 7. With Trinity Hall likely to bump out Jesus ahead, we were pretty sure we'd have the whole course to make the bump.

Bumped LMBC III

Wow. That was close.

We knew that we could bump LMBC, without their gents to help them. The question was whether we could do it before that terrible Fitz II boat succumbed to them. On marshalling, we joked to the Fitz guys that they had to give us 2 minutes. Turns out they couldn't even manage that.

Bumped Girton II

An air of uncertainty surrounded the first day of bumps this year, not having seen very much of Girton II (ahead of us) or Addenbrookes (behind us) at all on the river. We had a long time to contemplate as we sat at Chesterton for an age as the M4 division was re-rowed, followed by W3.

M2 matched last year's performance against a series of strong crews, winning the first two races before losing to eventual champions Caius M2 in the quarter-finals.

For the first time this term, we'd managed to put out the full racing crew, and so were looking for a strong performance to indicate our intentions for bumps. However, the weather decided not to cooperate with the idea of sitting on the river for an all-day regatta, and hence various types of waterproofing, from ponchos to space blankets, had to be used.