Rowing on was a highly successful day for LCBC, qualifying all of its boats to create the joint largest fleet in Eights. The lower women’s boats (W2&3) came back from the disappointment of Torpids to record two of the fastest 8 times from 40 crews entered and will be looking for lots of bumps in the 6th division. Congratulations in paticular should go to Nicole who’s spent most of her term coaching both boats.
M3 qualified with a respectable middling time but will be hoping that bumps racing is more suited to their ‘fast not fit’ style at the bottom of the 6th division. The suprise of the day was perhaps M6, a scratch crew of ex-rowers, remnants of M4 (who we had to withdraw to unavailibilty of rowers), and a cox who is frequently bullied for his weight. Despite this, and some truly awful rowing, they qualified only one second slower than m3. They would be looking for blades in the 7th division were it not for the fact that half the crew can’t be bothered to turn up for the first three days. M5, a ‘beer boat’ of cool rugby ‘lads’, realising their day would most likely end in failure, didn’t turn up.
Please come down and join us for the regatta, running from Wednesday through to Saturday. We should have boats racing throughout the day but we’ll publish details when they’re finalised.