Windermere Cup Regatta

tjod · Post by **tjod** » May 4th, 2006, 11:16 pm

Article in today's Seattle Times:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/s ... ere04.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/qm6so

Spectre · Post by **Spectre** » May 8th, 2006, 6:00 pm

Thanks for posting those articles! Opening Day is one of the best regattas I have ever been to. This year the Russians won by just a seat or so it was very exciting! There is nothing like hammering down the cut with the scream of all the people on both sides in your ears and the brass band going at the finsh. If you ever get a chance to go it is well worth the trip to Seattle! Green lake crew has a great photo site for the event at http://www.engenious.net/GreenLakeCrew/ ... outhRowing

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » May 8th, 2006, 6:39 pm

Spectre wrote:Thanks for posting those articles! Opening Day is one of the best regattas I have ever been to. This year the Russians won by just a seat or so it was very exciting! There is nothing like hammering down the cut with the scream of all the people on both sides in your ears and the brass band going at the finsh. If you ever get a chance to go it is well worth the trip to Seattle! Green lake crew has a great photo site for the event at http://www.engenious.net/GreenLakeCrew/ ... outhRowing

Agree on the exciting venue, however most of the racing was not particularly exciting. The Russians won by a bit more than you are indicating, and did so while virtually paddling in the final 300m at a 32, it was a very easy win. A few of the Masters races had victory dertermined by less than a deck, but nearly all of the headliners were thrashings.

Were you rowing? I may have you on video if so. Let me know which race, boat and seat, and I will check.

Spectre · Post by **Spectre** » May 8th, 2006, 7:34 pm

pauls; Yes I was racing, and from my angle sitting in the rowing shell, floating around all the other boats just past the finish it seemed close to me. I was in the Willamette RC boat that lost by less than a second to Pocock in the mixed 40+ eight. Total heart break as we were up 5 seats entering the cut. The last time I raced in this regatta was 20 years ago when the Soviet's beat Washington soundly. Did we look like crap at the finish, I sure felt like it.

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » May 8th, 2006, 7:57 pm

Spectre wrote:pauls; Yes I was racing, and from my angle sitting in the rowing shell, floating around all the other boats just past the finish it seemed close to me. I was in the Willamette RC boat that lost by less than a second to Pocock in the mixed 40+ eight. Total heart break as we were up 5 seats entering the cut. The last time I raced in this regatta was 20 years ago when the Soviet's beat Washington soundly. Did we look like crap at the finish, I sure felt like it.

Well it was 2 seconds, so from end on that would look very close for sure.

Your race was one of the best of the day for a close finish, which seat were you, I'm sure I got some good footage of your boat, I can sort it out and send it to you if you like. We were about 30m short of the finish line, I don't recal either your boat or Pocock looking particularly bad, just a very hard fought race from the aftermath scenes.