It’s that time again… Monday and Tuesday were cancelled due ot the Great Heat Wave, so our story starts on Wednesday. We have five crews this year, 3 women and 2 men. Days are covered last-first…

Friday

Friday too wasn’t an outstanding success. Highlight of the rowing was M1’s row-over ahead of Nines 3, a far more interesting race that we’d expected: having distanced them at the start they came back on the Reach, getting to perhaps 3/4 of a length. M2 fell victim to City, and the ladies went down. Vidz:

M1 riggercam, and JoCam; M2.
W1; W2; W3.

Afterwards to the Tivoli (thnx EC for organisation) for pizza drinks and speeches until midnight; and then it was the inevitable trip to City until quite late. Let’s leave the last word to RN: “So much was said on Friday night about what a lovely club Chesterton RC is and I think this year Bumps demonstrated it so well. Unfortunately, it was not an overly successful Bumps Campaign for us this year but there was little dwelling on this in the speeches and there were plenty of hugs and smiles all round.” And, I should add, M1 won the newly-donated (thnx Mike P-J) “Captain’s prize” for a minature oar each for the best crew that didn’t win blades.

Note: some pix below. Those that are mine are available at full-rez from Flickr.

Overhead Vid (M1).

Thursday

Thusday wasn’t great either. M1 pulled out a much better row and were oh-so-close to Tabs 3 in the gut but alas City 2 behind got us just a few strokes too early.

M1 riggercam; down.
M2: row-over. JoCam. A fine start.
W1: down. JoCam.
W2 down, agonising. JoCam.
W3: down. JoCam.

Wednesday

But Wednesday was not a happy day. Our highlight was M1 - naturally - who rowed over, but everyone else went down. Some links:

Crew lists

M1 Cox: Theo von Wilmowski Stroke: Harry Bulstrode Jonathan Pilgrim Steve O'Rourke Conor Burgess Adam Townson Jon Hatchett William Connolley Bow: Ralph Hancock. Alistair Goodman has Covid for days 1 and 2, so AT was our sub.

M2 Cox: Joshua Blake Dave Richards Simon Emmings Ian Foster Brian Stevens Christian Turvill Ondrej Cervinka Paul Holland Alex Coplan. Paul Szyszko for PH on Friday.

W1 Cox: Tom Grimble Lorraine Turvill Catherine Vilhauer Sarah Burgess Katherine McCloud Alicia Higueruelo Jo Raskin Natalie Andrews Masha Netchaeva

W2 Cox: Rachel Ibbott Anne Roberts Alex Addyman Marija Milosavlievic Karen Momber Dory Polos Kasia Babusinska Ella Harding-Rolls Kate Winter with Sam Fisk for EH-R on Friday.

W3 Cox: Meg Richards Claire Hancock Shonu Das Louise Atkin Beccy Garrill Evelyne Donnaes Dawn Hawkins Paige Boxhall Katie Bolt. Brigita Silesova for KB on Friday.