Trinity claims head of the river at Champion’s Lake

[Burgs]

I think rowing is actually officially a Winter sport Internationally, not 100%.

The earlier days, and perhaps still, the Girls Colleges used to use the Boys Colleges boats, so apart from just competing for time on the river for training, you can't just jump from one boat to another as there are all sorts of fine tuned settings for each size, style and strength of oarsman.

It would be a logistical nightmare having to change your rigging every day, there is enough angst from the Boys that the Girls even use them as historically they used to come back a bit worse for wear.

[Cowboy]

I think that when the girls schools first started rowing there was a fairbit of boat sharing between the schools, st hildas with hale, wesly with penrohos, christ church with mlc. They set the competitions at different times of the year so there would not be clashes over boats.

Beat me to it Burgs.

[lmaag]

Club season is winter down here and school season summer, I suspect it is about resources too

[Fairclough]

I'm trying to find a recording of my first viii race - I wonder if they'd have it on the net sumwhere
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[Burgs]

I doubt the official one would be but there may be some personal ones.
Mind you, it would posssibly be only Trinity people who would bother putting it up so you'll no doubt hear.
No contacts to the media through your old man?

[Fairclough]

Dad has a mate at chan 9 who is sending a recording of the day - but I can't wait, you know the feeling :p
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[eleypinkbit]

We used to use Christchurch's boats and they used to let us use their oldest, crappiest ones - used to take about 20 of us to carry them because the were the old wooden ones!
Then we moved to using the Aquinas ones and they let us use all their boats, but had to drive out to Aquinas whereas Christchurch was next door!
I thought girls rowed in winter cos the guys weren't hard enough