Hi all,
Just a quick one this morning. We've managed to win our first round against a well credentialled London 'B' crew. We had a reasonable start, only a minor steering blemish and held a length lead by the Barrier (600m). From here, according to Hatsy in the umpires boat, we handled the rough conditions better than the lighter London crew and eased out to about 2.5 lengths at the 3/4 mile. London worked hard to pull back, their finishing burst brought them up to a length down, Shane and Sam just tweaked the rate a couple of points and we held them there til the post. Not totally comfortable, but we have certainly all been in more distress. The time was 7:09, the equal fastest for the day, however some of the races were won easily by crews easing up at the line, so hard to tell.
Tomorrow's race is against the Elizabethan BC (old Etonians, apparently), whom once again, we know bugger all about. They beat the seeded New Zealand crew today, so imagine they'll be quick enough! The race is at 2:45pm GMT so 11:45pm EST (tonight) for all you guys. You souls be able to get either a radio feed, albeit a quite eclectic one, via the Henley Royal Regatta website. At the very least, you'll also find live and regularly updated results there.
We're off to bed, got to race again in 15hrs. More soon.
Cheers, Drew
Well done!! Was listening to the race over the internet but the commentary decided to go to the next race when you still had about 500m to go with "both crews starting to steer towards the centre of the course" - my fingernails are now even shorter than normal!! Had to wait another 5 minutes until they recapped the race. Good luck today, Nic
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