EVSRA Championship regatta report

The regional Championship was held on April 30th at the gardens venue. Highlights include the W2V4 taking the gold medal in their event. More pics and the complete results to follow.

Spring Fling II regatta report

Our fourth regatta was held on the Chickahominy River just west of Williamsburg. This was the first time the EVSRA used this venue, the home waters of the Williamsburg Boat Club. Despite a forecast of all-day rain we managed to have a good day, even though about a quarter of the team couldn't make the trip since they hadn't yet returned from Spring break.

Our men's varsity 8 won their heat with an astonishing time of 3:00 (obviously current aided!) In fact, the current, both incoming in the morning, and outgoing in the afternoon, made the finish times completely useless for comparison to our previous regattas. The relative placing in each race is more reliable for comparison, but with floating starts even the alignment and distance traveled within a single event had discrepancies. At any rate, here are the results:

James River regatta

Our third regatta was held west of Richmond on the James River. The new venue and the current (with its small launch and recovery dock!) made for an interesting day. Our results were less than spectacular, and the floating starts, combined with rowing upstream, made the elapsed times impossible to compare with times for previous regattas. The relative finishes, however, are valid. The regatta organizers did not provide the results in a spreadsheet, so I just copied the events in which we participated, and those results are below. Note that in events #16 and #36, "Grandby HS" should be Granby.

Spring Fling regatta report

Our second regatta was on April 1st, again at the Gardens venue. The weather allowed for good rowing with a cross course breeze of about 10 knots. Our crews were a bit jumbled with a number of rowers out sick and others away visiting colleges or nail salons (it was PROM night!)

We managed a couple of seconds in our eight events.  Results and commentary. Enjoy the photos. Thanks to Mr. Lee for the prom pic.

Here are the delta  t s from the first place crew in each event to our crews. I've also included last week delta  t s  to see if we have relative improvement.

Event     Season Opener     Spring Fling    SF(without WBC or RCC)

MV8               +34.8               +1:05.8             +50.2

MV4            +1:17.6                  +42.9             +31.1

M2V4             +48.9               +1:13.7             +45.4

WV8               +33.4                  +30.6               N/C

WV4               +42.8                  +49.4             +38.4

W2V4          +1:32.8                  +34.0               N/C

There was a huge improvement in the W2V4 and MV4 events, and a small improvement in the WV8 event. All other crew did worse than last week relative to the top crew. Perhaps due to sickness, or due to thinking about prom, but probably mostly due to the performances of the Williamsburg Boat Club and the River City Crew, both composite programs, who didn't attend the first regatta. As a non-scholastic programs, they are not eligible for the EVSRA championships so they won't be contenders in four weeks.