WLt4 Heat Race at the EVSRA Champs

Includes three novices, with a monster crab at about the 3:00 mark. The crew came back to finish 3rd.

WV4 heat race

Here is a "HQ"version of the WV4 heat race. I have the original high definition file but YouTube won't enable that large a file.  Two other races will be uploaded in the near future.

EVSRA Championships

For the second year in a row we've medaled at the regional championships. While last year's successes were at the novice level, this year we took home a silver medal at the varsity level. Congratulations to the Women's Second Varsity four+ crew who won their heat and went on to take second in their finals. We fielded ten crews, some who were thrown together just this week because we had a few folk who couldn't make it to the regatta. The results were somewhat disappointing, as evidenced by the demeanor of the women's novice four below, but I have high hopes for the independent schools championships next Friday. If you only consider the results and times of the crews from the schools that will be racing at the ISR, we would have placed in every event and would have won 3 of them.

The top varsity crews both just missed making their grand finals by about 3 seconds in their repechage row and had to settle for the petite finals. I got some nice video of the WV4, W2ndV4 and WLt4 from the new camera mount and will upload them once they are edited and synced with the audio. Below is a picture of Anna and the WLt4 crew heading out showing the camera mount.  

Below are the results and some additional pix. If anybody has more I'll add them to the blog.

Spring Fling II

     Another really hard day on the water. We entered one less event but came away with one more win that last week.  Significant wins include the Women's Light four and the Women's Novice four, both of whom finished first in five boat heats. Also taking a blue ribbon was the Men's novice four (pictured above) and the Mixed four.

     The strength and direction of the wind was just on the verge of being unrowable. After the chaos and havoc of the first two events (thank you CH for giving me some work to do...) the referees wisely shortened the course to start in the lee of the trees at about the 1000 m mark.  Rowing at the Lake Whitehurst venue is seldom winded out since the lake is almost completely surrounded by tall trees that block the wind. The exception is at the start with a southeast wind -- exactly the conditions we had yesterday.  The Mathews regatta was canceled after two events due to the wind and the open nature of that venue.

     It's interesting to note that the MN4 won in VeniVediVici. Perhaps there's still some life in that old hull after all. I'm sure the new tracks and seat carriages help. And who said duct tape wouldn't hold up? Synchronicity rowed three times after the patch was applied and both the WN4 and the WLt4 won their races with the go-fast silver tape.

   
Results are below. As usual, blue = 1st; red = 2nd, yellow = 3rd. green = other (including protestable collisions...)  If you have any more pictures send them my way and I'll add them to the blog.