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Did anyone else thing Cambridge had lost it when they dropped back to pass iniside?

And can some kind soul explain to me why Oxford had a bilge pump but Cambridge didnae?
 
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And can some kind soul explain to me why Oxford had a bilge pump but Cambridge didnae?

[/ QUOTE ]Bilge pumps are sold out, no matter where you try find one.
 
They have a choice whether or not to carry a pump. Really it was not very relevant to the result. If an eight takes on a lot of water a small pump worked by the cox is not likely to get rid of it all, so some extra weight will remain. Put another way, if you reach the point where you are having to pump, you have probably already lost the chance of winning.
 
Don't see this at all

The cox has f*** all physical to do, so providing him with a pump seems a good idea

And you can pump out an awful lot of water with a Whale Gusher. The water will go to the stern end ready for cox's attention, or have I got this all wrong?
 
the pumps I used when rowing were through hull venturie thingies ..... all the cox does is push the plunger to lower the cutaway cyliner which drains the water away.
however the drag does slow the boat so its a tossup whether its better to drain or not.

so ........ wot sort of pump do they use now ? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Private educated guys been practicing for months.
But nobody thought a bilge pump would be a good idea..

Like a lot of "skippers" the cox coulda maybe won if he'd stopped shouting and set to work wiv a bucket.
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I think they still have the venturi, but in an eight not all the water will go to the stern, and once enough water has been shipped to make use of it, the damage in terms of boat speed has probably already been done. I am not sure if they can also carry an actual mechanical pump. My point however is that once a fair volume of water has got in, neither method would be likely to remove it all and a mechanical pump is more likely to be of use trying to stop a swamped boat from sinking after the crew have stopped rowing.
 
With respect, have you coxed an eight?

I grant you that my rowing career has been utterly undistinguished, although I do deserve at least a silver medal for towpath cycling, the result of coxing my college first eight and rowing in the fifth eight; the point being that one needed a girlfriend to ride ones bike to the point at which the first boat either bumped or was bumped, hold out the bike as one scrambled ashore and then rode alomg the crowded towpath at high speed down to the stakes scrambled in grabbed an oar and went again. Should the first boat row over, of course...
 
It certainly was an Ecocat. It is used because of its stability as a camera platform. The PLA have 2 bigger ones under construction at the moment.
If you want any sensible information talk to Andy Fox, not hooray henry.
 
Given the increased drag on the hull, you're not going to use venturis.

Oxford boating
shows at least two green hoses going over the side - looks like a standard set up, presumably with long hoses to the middle of the boat. And it looks like there's something where the cox sits (top left of the picture).

Also hose under the cox's hand.

Given the shape of the hull (convex), and the fact that the water is travelling at the same speed as the boat (it only goes to the back if you keep accelerating - if only!), the cox won't be able to sponge it up from the end where he's sitting.

But as a couple of other people have said - Cambridge got the worse of the rough stuff and Oxford dealt better with what they hit.

Glad my boat now goes (mostly) over the tops of waves!
 
...a rowing boat does not go through the water smoothly, the acceleration and deceleration due to crew movement is amazing. Try coxing one and feel the thump in your back every stroke.... Water in the boat surges forth and back as a result.
 
My wife used to - that's where she met me (facing the other way)!

Agreed, it's not the smoothest of movements (far from it!), but the acceleration phase is too short to get much of the water all the way to the cox's seat before everything starts to slow down again and it rushes off towards the bows.

Or maybe we just never generated enough power when I did it...
 
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