After admiring their newly purchased Christmas jumpers (note the Sidney colours!), Marsh set off from the boat house and gave a remarkably strong paddle down.
In the first race Marsh had just started to nudge ahead of Robinson, but unfortunately Aakash managed pull the handle clean off the end of his blade. Robinson pulled ahead, but even with 7 rowers they actually started to gain on them again! Sadly it was not enough.
The crew refueled with some cakes from Lionel, and were very grateful to have chosen such a warm costume idea.
For the second race they had to row as a six, which meant that Emma were able to get their boat up to speed much more quickly. Once Marsh got the boat moving they actually managed to match Emma’s pace, but it was not enough to catch up.
A fantastic but unfortunate effort, bring on Fairbairns!!
