23/05/2023
--'99s Regatta 2023 Race Report--
VSBC re-emerged for our second race in two weeks and first win of the year! On Sunday 21st May we competed in 99s regatta, 1km course, in the W5 category (opponents of college W2 and W3 crews).
Rebecca at five broke her footplate in a power 10 on the row up leading to some fairly chaotic marshalling. We were very gratefully saved by lovely Hughes Hall lending us a rigger jigger!
After a little delay we sheepishly (😜)rowed up to the start and proceeded to win our first two races
against Hughes Hall W3, followed by Corpus W2. We managed to wind it down in the last 400m of each race to conserve our energy for the final, which was revealed to be against Hughes Hall W2.
After bonding with our oppo to YMCA (great choice of tunes gals 😍) we got ready for our final race of the day. Our strong and cohesive start gave us an immediate advantage but Hughes caught up and we had lost a couple of seats by the bend in the reach. Josie at stroke was undeterred and maintained an unforgiving rate 38 for the whole course (your local college M3 will be proud). We regained at the railway bridge thanks to a big push with the hips through and thankfully all footplates survived the "EMPTY THE TANK" call, ending with us finishing in first by a length.
A massive thanks to our sponsors for making such an amazing day possible, and to Selwyn for lending the boat (and a rower).
Crew: C- Hannah (6th year), S- Josie (4th year), 7- Emilia (4th year), 6- Irene (final year medic!), 5- Rebecca H (6th year), 4- Katie (6th year), 3- Charlotte (Selwyn super sub!), 2- Rebecca M (5th year), B- Susannah (6th year).
