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TallbutBuxomly said:
...and the land alongside it moves instead?
Eh? What did I say that caused your sarcastic reply? 
I started by saying I'm not a rower but I've fished the tidal Thames (and swam in it even
) So... when the tide turns it appears that the river is stationary for 5 or 10 mins before it starts to flow upstream towards Chiswick. Perhaps you don't know the answer. I'm not that bothered...
RichB said:
Eh? What did I say that caused your sarcastic reply?
I started by saying I'm not a rower but I've fished the tidal Thames (and swam in it even ) So... when the tide turns it appears that the river is stationary for 5 or 10 mins before it starts to flow upstream towards Chiswick. Perhaps you don't know the answer.
I'm not that bothered...
Sorry to forgot to put a smiley as it was meant in jest.I started by saying I'm not a rower but I've fished the tidal Thames (and swam in it even
) So... when the tide turns it appears that the river is stationary for 5 or 10 mins before it starts to flow upstream towards Chiswick. Perhaps you don't know the answer. I'm not that bothered...
RichB said:
HowMuchLonger said:
The bit that you are missing is that there is always a current on the thames. 
Really? Having grown up in Kew and Hammersmith it appears from the bank that there is a period when the river is stationaryVery approximately the flow of the tide starts very weak, strengthens 'til about the middle of the tide and then weakens again so the tide is in any case very weak just before and just after it turns - hence it appearing to stand still.
The race is run at the top of the tide when it runs strongest, for two reasons (I assume) 1) to give maximum support to the crews and thus a shorter race; and 2) to make it most even - when the tide is weaker the difference between the middle of the stream and the dges becomes more pronounced.
At high an low tide there is relatively little current but the underlying flow of the river makes the water unpredictable and often rough as the tide turns. At low tide, the following flotilla would be somewhat problematic, at high tide the river at its most turbulent. Also, there are two races (soon to be three when the women arrive) each which lasts 15-20mins (plus a gap), and the conditions would change radically over that period.
That said, it is rowed on a spring tide - the biggest there are so there is probably another reason
That said, it is rowed on a spring tide - the biggest there are so there is probably another reason
How hardcore are swans?
I know they are pretty resilient creatures but I do feel a bit bad after t
tting one with an oar.
A couple of times a swan has been hit 2 or 3 times by the same boat going past and last night 2 of us hit 2 different ones really rather hard as we were practising regatta sprints.
How much can the take? Last nights one was probably hit by me on the wing area.
I know they are pretty resilient creatures but I do feel a bit bad after t
tting one with an oar.A couple of times a swan has been hit 2 or 3 times by the same boat going past and last night 2 of us hit 2 different ones really rather hard as we were practising regatta sprints.
How much can the take? Last nights one was probably hit by me on the wing area.
Derek Chevalier said:
AstonZagato said:
Not rowing but spectating. Now finding it is my mate's children competing.
We got knocked out this morning - only lost my novice status last month so has been an amazing/exhausting experience. Might stick to the spectating next year!You should stick at it. A bloke I started rowing with after Cambridge (he was a novice) went for a year to Cambridge a couple of years later as a grad and won the Brit.
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