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Subject: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 05 Apr 21 - 11:59 AM Excellent Boat Races from both men and ladies yesterday afternoon from the Great Ouse near Ely!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 05 Apr 21 - 01:16 PM All the more interesting for us because they took place just a few miles from where we now go for our holiday!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Rain Dog Date: 05 Apr 21 - 01:38 PM Have you by any chance written a poem about it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Backwoodsman Date: 05 Apr 21 - 02:05 PM They were excellent races, far better than those Thames Tideway processional nonsenses. Took me back to my competitive rowing days in the ‘60s and ‘70s. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: punkfolkrocker Date: 05 Apr 21 - 02:46 PM My grandad used to run the boating pond at a local holiday camp, when I was a kid. I think he got the job because he was a Dunkirk hero, and so was bound to know a thing or two about boats.. I'd get free goes on a rowing boat first thing in the morning on my summer holidays. Unfortunately that was not sufficient experience to qualify me for either Oxford or Cambridge. So I went to a lefty Polytechnic instead to study class war... |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 05 Apr 21 - 03:36 PM Why ever would I wish to write a poem about it?? |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Backwoodsman Date: 05 Apr 21 - 04:07 PM ”Unfortunately that was not sufficient experience to qualify me for either Oxford or Cambridge. So I went to a lefty Polytechnic instead to study class war...” You’d have fitted in fine at my local rowing club, pfr - all very ‘working-class”, not a university student or posh bloke among us, we were engineering shop-floor workers, electricians, car-mechanics, fire-fighters, office-clerks, A&E nurses, bus-drivers, you name it... The idea that rowing is for public-school kids and Oxbridge students is very much out-dated and, quite simply, wrong-headed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 05 Apr 21 - 04:37 PM Likewise polo!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 06 Apr 21 - 04:58 AM Missed it. What is all this c**p about the name? GEMINI boat race????? It is, and always has been called The Boat Race the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race or the University Boat Race. Or have I missed something where Oxford and Cambridge Universities have merged to form Gemini Universities or universities have now been re-designated as geminis? Or are they now contesting the race in gemini dinghies instead of rowing boats. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 06 Apr 21 - 08:08 AM Sponsorship perhaps - orders from the cheque book for these extraordinary people to display the antics of some hideous disco before getting down to the serious business of rowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: EBarnacle Date: 06 Apr 21 - 11:55 AM If you want to see good competitive rowing, get involved with one of the groups that use Whitehall boats. No college degree required. First we build them, then we row them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 06 Apr 21 - 03:52 PM Possibly not to Olympic standard, which is why I always watch the Boat Race. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Apr 21 - 04:11 PM Oh, are you talking human-powered boats? I was picturing the hydroplane speedboat races I used to watch on the Detroit River when I was a kid. Those were cool. Human-powered boat races are cool, too. The Boys in the Boat is a "non-fiction novel" about the US boat team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's a fascinating book to read, even if I've never heard of a "nonfiction novel." I suppose that's a pretty good description, though. It's factual, but reads like a novel. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: EBarnacle Date: 06 Apr 21 - 07:37 PM Emphases changed but based on fact. It's a good read. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Apr 21 - 06:45 AM They entered him for rowing on the boat-race day He lost his oar and m********** all the way They won by half a length but were disqualified For splashing the spectators on the Surrey side Don't blame me: there's a thread on it! :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Raggytash Date: 07 Apr 21 - 07:06 AM Whitby in North Yorkshire has a regatta which today consists of rowing races, at sea. Various crews from 3 rowing clubs race a variety of distances depending on age and gender. The races, originally for yachts, have been going on for over 170 years. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Apr 21 - 09:16 AM I used to run the boating lake too. (I wasn't a veteran.) The main qualification you needed was to be strong enough to lift the boats out of the water and turn them upside down to get the water out |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Mo the caller Date: 07 Apr 21 - 12:36 PM Ah, Whitby regatta. Cursed by those looking for accommodation for Whitby Folk Week when the 2 clash. |
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Boat Races yesterday!! From: Raggytash Date: 07 Apr 21 - 01:13 PM True Mo, Basically it is down to the awkward attitude of the regatta organisers. A few years ago I had a long talk with two of them, they suggested it was down to the time and height of the tides. I got a tide table and showed them that two weeks prior the BIGGEST differences in the tides was 100mm (about 4 inches) and 13 minutes. They wouldn't talk to me after that! |