The weather was reminiscent of last year; a gin clear day, but much warmer, but also with an unfortunate 25 knot headwind bearing straight down the shortened course.
It was bloody out there, and after the first Division and numerous capsizes, the event was sensibly restricted to 4s and 8s, which impacted the Junior events heavily.
That said, even with a much reduced field, MIRC dominated the whole event, taking the first 3 fastest times, and with some notable performances further down the field.
Results are HERE
First were the dominant 4- of Morgan Hellen, Tim Grant, Chris Mollison and Matt Nicholls; fresh from their victory at the Fours Head, they destroyed this field, beating the second place MIRC Vet D 8+ by 35 seconds.
The Vet D 8+ coxed by Dani had a strong race. They elected to use the women's blades and benefited from the shorter length in the difficult conditions.
And in another powerful performance, the Novice 4x came third only just being beaten by the Veterans by 6 seconds. We understand that Tom is throughly bereft and unconsolable from being beaten by the "old farts". Still, based on this showing they will not be novice scullers for very long.
OK - that's before the start in the calm of the Victoria Dock, but even in the race it was pretty good!
The Vet C4+ came 17th, and seemed pretty happy for their second outing of the day.
Only 4 Junior boats got out in the end. The stand out performance was in the J162x who came 31st beating Thames Rowing Club by 36 seconds.
A MIRC Junior sculler braves the docks!
Comic moment of the day was the unusual boat entry of Dani James into the Vet D8+. It went something like this: Dani: "Cox getting in... aaaaarrrrrrghhhhhh," as she missed the boat altogether and ended up in the drink. She was swamped for the rest of the day by other trainee coxes eager to learn how she performed this feat!
Photos, as ever, stolen from various FB albums particularly from Dani, Andrea and Anne
Well done MIRC - a good days racing!
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