Rowham II

#RowhamIINo237 #RowhamIINo235 Good idea would be a nice original kind of rowing race. DCR please make it happen. Coxed fours are DCRs too boats unlike oxbridge and that would exemplify that. Would having DU Rowers Work though? If they were allowed to race by their coaches it would just become a race between Collingwood, HB and Cuths (so pretty similar to current status quo just more expressed).Also I think there aren’t actually any rules against DUBC rowers rowing for college, their time and coaches just don’t let them.

#RowhamIINo236 #RowhamIINo233 Some of the utterly blasé comments on this would suggest several people are in denial about how dangerous the browns boats can actually be - especially when they go through Elvet wrong

#RowhamIINo235 Ok so I know the subject of Durham bumps has been done to death and it’s been established it wouldn’t work, but I had an idea I can’t let go of, so hear me out: Week-long event, one open division, one women’s. Top 8+ from each college entered into a pool. Two equal teams drawn from the pool, selected at random (e.g. Cuths, Van Mildert, South, Aidan’s, John’s on one side, Collingwood, Trevs, Chad’s, Hilde Bede etc. on the other, you get the idea). Both teams are distributed across multiple marshalling points between DARC and Prebends, forming pairs of one 8+ from each team, one pair per marshalling point. Pair at the start each have a flag of some kind in the bow card holder, same with all other crews down the course. On go, starting pair side-by-side race each other down, say, half the racecourse, to the next pair on the course. Racing crews must hold it up so as not to collide with waiting crews. Cox of the next boat must take the flag off the previous crew in order to go, then the next crew can go, relay race style. First time to get their last boat under Prebends wins, the other team is eliminated. That’s Day 1. Day 2, winning team is split in half, again randomly. Number of marshalling points is also halved, and two halves of the winning team have to race each other down the same course, each crew rowing roughly double the distance as Day 1. Same premise, winning team advances to the next day, losing team is eliminated. This process repeats, each day the stretches getting longer and number of crews halving, until the last day is the two remaining crews, who have to race the full rowable length of the Wear to claim victory. Call it the DCR Derby, or something. And as a bonus, DU rowers can represent their colleges, kinda like May Bumps in Oxbridge colleges (I think? Can never remember if it’s Lent or Mays). Prize for headship could be that the winning crew gets to keep the flags of all competing crews that year, until they’re needed next year. Possibility for unique DCR event? Less risk of damage than bumps, at any rate.

#RowhamIINo234 I take back everything bad I said about Cuths, saw their pair on the river today doing bursts with a speaker, made me wish I was a Cuths half pint

#RowhamIINo233 Does brown’s boats tell the people the rules of the river? I get we have to share the river but going through the wrong Elvet arches and being all over the river is just dangerous

#RowhamIINo232 DUYAPS x HCBC ??

#RowhamIINo231 @chadsboatclub thanks for the gift :) love johns xx

#RowhamIINo230 whats actually better to do du rowing or senate

#RowhamIINo229 DCR sec pls make sure this thing about imports at Durham Regatta is enforced

#RowhamIINo228 #RowhamIINo227 Based on the last College 4s event (Senate Cup) it’s the import Collingwood need to worry about