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.