Category: Boat Club
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Ready for Launch!
So the stress and strain of Christ Church is now more than a week behind us, and the time has come to start looking forwards and preparing our crews for the challenge posed by bumps racing. One thing has always given our boat-club an enormous advantage, and that is the wonderful stretch of the Thames…
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Christ Church Regatta 2009
With Christ Church Regatta both commencing and finishing on Wednesday, the entire boat club had plenty of time to prepare ourselves for a hard night of celebrating rowing at St. Peter’s. We might not have had the chance to prove to the rest of Oxford just how proficient the St. Peter’s novices have become with…
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On a Term with the Men’s Seniors…
Last night, at a wonderful dinner, the mens senior squad very generously presented me with a fine bottle of single malt along with their thanks. In truth it is I that should be thanking them! This term has seen a calamitous run of bad fortune, including illness, food poisoning, and multiple deaths to the launch.…
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As Race Day Draws Near…
The ergs are turning, the starts are finally getting there, someone is dusting off True Blue ready for the race-day-eve ritual screening; the Boat Club is getting ready to do what it does best: putting good crews into Oxford regattas in short order. If you’re in Oxford (be you student, alumnus or friend), do please…
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Confessions of a Novice Cox
I started rowing as a novice in Michaelmas 2008 and quickly developed a passion for all things rowing related. Inspired by Christ Church Regatta success I moved up the ranks to rowing in the mens first eight in Trinity term. This term I decided to have a go at coxing. I assumed that coxing would…
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Meanwhile, Down on the River…
I’ve seen quite a few of the Freshers crews over the last few weeks and they are shaping up very well indeed. Whether we will have success of the degree of intoxication as last year remains to be seen. Perhaps with Ladies A we have the best chance. They are big and strong and being…
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IWL 2009
St Peter’s novice and senior crews got their first taste of racing this academic year in Isis Winter League yesterday. The performances were outstanding from all members of the boat club, but I just wanted to make sure that all of the Peter’s women were giving themselves a huge pat on the back this morning.…
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Update: Men’s Seniors
Men’s Seniors The traditional bad luck of Michaelmas rowing has somewhat plagued our first squad this term, whether it has been illness in the boat or our poor launch “Gilly” choosing to selfishly die on us just as we pushed off at Radley last weekend. However, a solid core has stayed strong in the boat,…
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Update: SPCWBC
Women’s Novices The women’s novices have been coming along in leaps and bounds this week – the improvement has been outstanding and as we start to fix them into crews we can see them really working together. This morning Francis asked me why I was in such a good mood, that I normally wasn’t like…
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Novices in the mist…
Novice training for Christ Church regatta started with a bang this weekend, when we held our first ever Freshers’ Week BBQ at the Boathouse. We had an excellent turnout and managed to get far more boats than we could have imagined out on the water for a taste of Oxford rowing. The river was busy,…
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