Who watches the Boat Race?

[Badger_Boom]

I once had a go at rowing. It's a lot harder than it looks. The oars kept coming out of the thingies that hold them in place and my palms ended up covered in blisters.🧐

Once you get past the blisters stage, chasing the perfect stroke is strangely addictive.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Once you get past the blisters stage, chasing the perfect stroke is strangely addictive.

The oars were heavy old wooden ones. I suppose the ones used in competitions will be carbon fibre or alloy?🤔

 

[Slick]

I once had a go at rowing. It's a lot harder than it looks. The oars kept coming out of the thingies that hold them in place and my palms ended up covered in blisters.🧐

What a load of old rollocks.

 

[Badger_Boom]

The oars were heavy old wooden ones. I suppose the ones used in competitions will be carbon fibre or alloy?🤔

There’s lots of carbon fibre in everything, especially racing boats and oars.

 

[Accy cyclist]

What a load of old rollocks.

We were stroking like billyo yet going so slow,i thought someone had dropped anchor! 🧐

 

[snorri]

Learning to row seemed like an important part of growing up in my childhood, it gave us the ability to travel independently and explore in much the same way as bicycles did on land, but youngsters don't seem interested in such ploys nowadays. We had access to the floats of old flying boats left over from wartime which made good boats for rowing and fishing trips and also for experimenting with unorthodox sailing rigs made up from whatever materials could be found..

 

[Accy cyclist]

I did notice the Cambridge cox is about the same weight as my left leg.

I remember when Steve Redgrave and Mathew Pinsent,or was it James Cracknell 🤔 won gold in one Olympics. The little bloke who did the megaphone bit also got a gong. I'd say that was a 'i was there' medal,rather than a 'i helped win it' medal.🧐

 

[Slick]

I remember when Steve Redgrave and Mathew Pinsent,or was it James Cracknell 🤔 won gold in one Olympics. The little bloke who did the megaphone bit also got a gong. I'd say that was a 'i was there' medal,rather than a 'i helped win it' medal.🧐

Not everyone agrees with that one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox...not communicate to,to the direction of travel.

They do talk a lit about the skill on the tiller with a credit card sized rudder controlled by cables used to steer something akin to a bus.

 

[Lozz360]

Let's hope Oxford lose again,tomorrow afternoon!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/accrington-stanley/scores-fixtures

I’m starting to go off you!

 

[matticus]

So you can't go over it: and you can't go under it?

Nothing else for it: we'll just have to go THROUGH it. Who's with me??

 

[Grant Fondo]

I wonder if there is a 'Rowing Chat' forum, where keen rowers make derogatory posts about "who watches the Volta a Catalunya and the like?

 

[matticus]

I wonder if there is a 'Rowing Chat' forum, where keen rowers make derogatory posts about "who watches the Volta a Catalunya and the like?

There might be when it gets a ton of BBC coverage!

 

[Craig the cyclist]

There might be when it gets a ton of BBC coverage!

Hmm, I don't think that about 2 hours a year is 'a ton'. I reckon the BBC gives that much to cycling, probably more actually.

 

[matticus]

Hmm, I don't think that about 2 hours a year is 'a ton'. I reckon the BBC gives that much to cycling, probably more actually.

... but not to any minor stage races.
(Outside UK, anyway!)

 

[Accy cyclist]

I’m starting to go off you!

Sorry. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56560291