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SPCWBC Prepare for Torpids
The women’s side of the Boat Club continues to attract rowers old and new, which is represented by the fact that we have three boats who’ll be racing in Torpids this year. The W2 crew do not need to qualify for a place in the regatta, which is excellent news and means all…
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The King Award for Most Improved Rower
St Peter’s College Boat Club had a lot to celebrate at Hilary term’s Boat Club Dinner. Between them, our two men’s crews and two women’s crews managed fourteen bumps in total, placing us at the top of the total bumps table for the whole university. This was a fantastic level of success and as great an…
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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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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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The Oxen Ford
In the dim and far off times Oh best Beloved, Oxford was not a great Centre of Learning elegantly spread along the well tempered shores of the Thames and Cherwell rivers but a set of squalid hovels and tawdry pubs running up a gravelly hill above a minor cattle ford over the swamp that stretched…
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