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Posted: Saturday 26 June 2010, 1:04AM by Sam Harrison
SSBC will be holding a dinner for all Alumni who rowed or coxed during their time at Sidney on Saturday 6th November 2010. The aim is to raise enough money to purchase two new four's. The dinner two years ago was a great success, raising enough to purchase a new women's eight. We are hoping for another enjoyable evening for all involved this time around.
There have been letters and emails sent out to the Alumni we have contact details for but unfortunately our lists are not exhaustive. if you are interested but do not hear from us within the next week please get in touch with me at captain@ssbc.org.uk and I will send more information.
Posted: Saturday 26 June 2010, 12:57AM by Sam Harrison
26 Sidney rowers are imminently departing, heading for Philadelphia and the Independence Day Regatta. This should be a great trip for all involved and hopefully will also offer some good quality racing against US crews.
The regatta takes place over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th July and more information can be found here. If anyone happens to be around Philadelphia then it would be great to see you at the river.
Posted: Tuesday 22 June 2010, 10:07AM by Lucy Sweetland
To finish up a fantastic term, W2 won blades in Mays this year. After winning our division at Head to Head and at Champs Eights we felt confident rowing up on Wednesday to chase Fitz II, although still definitely suffering from the usual bumps nerves - or at least, I was! We had a great start that day and caught Fitz well before First Post Corner and enjoyed a row back with greenery.
The second day was not quite as polished... although we would like to blame that on the deafening gun from our station under the railway bridge, and also the fact that we caught Homerton II just so quickly! Finding ourselves in their wash after about 10 strokes, we had little chance to settle into a rhythm, but nonetheless powered into them well before First Post: a messy bump, but we'll take it.
The third day saw us catch First and Third III in the shortest race yet, with a good, powerful row.
Rowing up on Saturday we were excited though nervous, quickly shh-ing any mention of 'the flag' or the B-word... Knowing that Murray Edwards had had to chase Churchill II, our victim, to Grassy Corner, we anticipated a longer race. However, having beaten Churchill's W1 in Champs Eights, we were completely confident we would get them. After a scrappy start, certainly affected by nerves, we settled into a great rhythm. Finding ourselves at First Post Corner - for the first time that week! - we finally heard our first whistle, and knowing that Churchill must be tiring, we stepped it up, and the following whistles came quickly, helped by a roar of Sidney support in the Gut, and we bumped soon after. A more knackering chase - and more dramatic, as we heard Murray Edwards had crabbed in front of Churchill, allowing them to get within a length - we were even more euphoric to see the flag appear from James' rucksack and we all loved the row home with plenty of greenery and cheers from the crowded banks.
This successful campaign leaves Sidney W2 placed 4th in the division, giving next year's crew a good shot to break into the third division - moving up, where we belong!
Posted: Sunday 20 June 2010, 11:23AM by Tasha Scott
To continue our bumping success, we were determined to get Darwin W1, particularly as they were coxed by a fellow Sidney member. After a questionable start, we flew towards them, enduring the significant wash to catch them at First Post corner, in front of an enormous crowd of spectators. Many thanks to those from Sidney that made the effort to come out to the towpath, the support was amazing! Up three over four days is an excellent result, and we were all very happy.
Posted: Sunday 20 June 2010, 11:23AM by Tasha Scott
As on Day 2, we knew that we had a great chance of catching the boat ahead, LMBC W2, as Emma W2 had caught up with them at Grassy. As the gun went off, we did a decent start, and the whistles came pretty swiftly after that. We bumped them along first post reach, and this was the first bump of the whole division, a very pleasing result. Thanks must go to Hannah Taylor, who subbed for Rose Tallon on this day.
Posted: Sunday 20 June 2010, 11:17AM by Tasha Scott
Knowing that Emma W2 had caught Homerton W1 at First Post corner, we knew that we were able to catch them, if all went well. With Murray Edwards chasing us, we needed to go off hard, and did a much better start than on Day 1. Like clockwork, we managed to bump Homerton on the second half of First Post reach, giving us our first bump of the week, and keeping well clear of Murray Edwards. Overlap took a little longer than expected to happen, as Emma W2 kindly crabbed in front of Homerton, causing them to perk up a little. Rowing home with greenery made us eager to repeat the experience on Day 3.
Posted: Sunday 20 June 2010, 11:16AM by Tasha Scott
After a hard term of training, W1 set out on a mission to get Emma W2, the crew they were chasing. A good row up to the start set us up nicely, but unfortunately, not long after the gun went off, we soon realised that Homerton W1 were significantly slower than both us an Emma, meaning that we were denied our bump at First Post.
Emma failing to clear caused us to crash for a while in the reeds at the outside of this corner. Once we set off again, there was nothing ahead of us to chase, so we took the rate down to a comfortable 26 after Ditton, and rowed the rest of the course solidly.
Posted: Sunday 20 June 2010, 9:33AM by Sam Harrison
Day three: After we had managed to catch Queens’ II before they caught Wolfson on day two we were perhaps a little over confident going into day three. We felt that based on the previous day we would be able to bump Wolfson quickly and that Anglia Ruskin (ARU) two ahead would be able to hold off Wolfson as necessary.
This wasn’t quite the case. We had a scrappy start and held station with Wolfson for the first few hundred metres. However, they were rowing well and were already closing on ARU. We got our first whistle going into first post corner but at this point Wolfson were a canvas off ARU and looked good for a quick bump. We put in a jump call into the corner, which gave us some ground, but things still looked bad going into Grassy.
Rob took an excellent line around Grassy, judging perfectly how hard he could clip the bushes on the inside of the corner while Mike could carry on rowing! Wolfson took a wider line but on the exit of the corner they were feet away from ARU with us still half a length behind. Fortunately, we managed to pick the boatspeed up and we started to make ground quickly. We made contact with Wolfson on the entrance to Ditton (pictured) while they had overlap on ARU!
It had been a scrappy row and we had seriously underestimated Wolfson but we were lucky that ARU held on so doggedly and we had just enough time. The result was there though so we went into day four in the ideal postion, up three from three.
Day four: This was always going to be tough. We were chasing ARU, who we knew could row well under serious pressure from the previous day. They were chasing a Darwin boat, which we knew couldn’t row well under serious pressure.
We anticipated it would all be over by first post corner, whoever bumped who, so the plan was to hugely frontload the race. We had a really solid row down and were all hoping that Darwin could hold off ARU for long enough for us to get them.
We had a really good start, our best of the week, and got our first whistle almost immediately. We strode down and settled into our rhythm and were just moving towards two whistles when we started hearing a lot of whistles from ahead. We passed Darwin and ARU immediately after the motorway bridge and were left chasing the unlikely overbump on St. Edmund’s. As it transpired Darwin had crabbed and crashed under the bridge leaving ARU with the simplest of bumps... Before, we were moving onto two whistles on ARU who were the same distance off Darwin.
The row over was some of the best rowing we’ve done as a crew and despite how hard we had started we still managed to really pick the boat speed up and move away from Wolfson down the Reach.
It was a shame we weren’t afforded the opportunity of a proper race with ARU but we did our best rowing of the week on the last day. That is just the nature of bumps.
Finally, many thanks to those who coached us during term and to all the supporters who came to watch during the week.
Posted: Thursday 17 June 2010, 10:02PM by Sam Harrison
The results from the Saturday of May bumps and each crew's overall results are below:
M1: Rowed Over, Up 3
W1: Bumped Darwin, Up 3
M2: Bumped by Magdalene III, Down 3
W2: Bumped Churchill II, Up 4
M3: Bumped by Fitzwilliam III, Down 3
W3: Bumped by Queens' III, Down 4
Particular congratulations to W2 (pictured) who secured their blades! Thankyou to everyone who came to support the Sidney crews over the course of the week.
Posted: Friday 11 June 2010, 10:41PM by Sam Harrison
Another good day for M1 and W2 means they are up both up three going into the last day. W1 (pictured) also secured a bump, making them up two overall. However M2, M3 and W3 all fell to quick crews behind them.
M1: Bumped Wolfson
W1: Bumped LMBC II
M2: Bumped by St. Edmund's II
W2: Bumped 1st & 3rd III
M3: Bumped by Hughes Hall II
W3: Bumped by King's II
Best of luck to all crews for the last day. It looks set to be a nice day tomorrow and it would be great to have a large contingent of Sidney supporters cheering our crews on from the bank, so please come down to the river if you can.
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