James River Regatta

For our fourth competition of the season we participated in the James River regatta in Midlothian, west of Richmond. The two hour trip required a departure from school at o-dark hundred to make the 7:30 coach's meeting. This regatta saw our first heat win - the WV4+ crew cruisin' to an easy open water win over crews from First Colonial, Cox and River City. The girls then immediately hopped into the stern four seats of the mixed eight and just about pulled off another win, only losing to Granby's crew by a second.

All-in-all it was a successful day. The crews experienced floating starts so times for the 1500 m course are misleading. I suppose the 1500 meter distance is also misleading since rowing against a 1 knot river current meant actually rowing significantly further (~ 1700 m?) 

Some edited videos and the official results are below. Note the time differentials from the first place boat in each event. Again the previous three regattas are the first three columns; this regatta is the last column. Caution should be used when comparing times between heats due to the imprecise course length caused by the floating starts.

MV4    +1:46    +1:03  +0:42   +1:14

WV4    +1:13    +1:37  +0:29    +1:09
W2V4  +1:32    +0:31  +0:19    -----
WV8    +0:40   +0:38  +0:37  -----
Mx8     +2:23    +1:31   -----      +1:13
WN4     ------    +2:22   -----     +4:38
Mx4      ------    -------  +2:06   +4:56
W1X     ------    -------  +0:30   +0:00

The WV4+ won their heat going away but was still significantly slower than the winning time in the other heat.

The MV4+ crew finished last after hanging tough for more than half the race.

The mixed eight crew took second in their heat, one second behind Granby.

After a long day. Thanks to Mr. Schoening for driving the short bus!