Sunday, March 04, 2007

:) just couldn't resisit copying this here from the PCBC website:

Saturday
Bumped FaT III

3 days, 3 row overs. It had been quite a disappointing week for the 4th women. Despite the impressive acheivment of getting on they had been denied the joy of bumping on every day so far. With one last chance it was clear that the potential to bump was there but whether it would happen was another question entirely. The gun went and the crew quickly picked up the speed of the boat. Coming under the motorway bridge and down first post reach I was worried that this row would go very much like the others. Pembroke closed 1/4 of a length on FaT but little more. It was coming towards the end of first post reach though that things started to turn around. Pembroke reached a length a little before the corner and were at 1/2 a length going into the turn. The distance was being closed on every stroke and coming out of the corner Pembroke soon got to a canvas. Pushing up on them every stroke it was half way down the gut when the signal was given for overlap (which incidentally took the form of an air-horn given the lack of a second bell). Pembroke kept pushing and it was just before grassy that the FaT cox conceded the very well deserved bump. Congratulations Pembroke 4th boat

-Adrian Potter

No comments: