Updates
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Celebrations marking UCLBC’s 150th year have begun.
On the night of Friday 3rd November, the Boat Club took to the water, powered this time by petrol rather than muscle. Nevertheless, team spirit was high and the Burlington Burtie cheer was deafening as the first celebration event of 150th anniversary year got underway. 102 of this year’s 116 members celebrated the success of…
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HRR: Inside Lines
The UCL Men’s Eight were featured heavily in the Henley press releases this year. Wednesday Earlier in the day, in another exciting race, a selected German crew suffered a similar fate against University College London. Dresden University had started strongly and maintained a narrow lead until the 3/4 mile, where sustained pressure from an unruffled…
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Portugal Training Camp
The winter onslaught had been long. It felt at times like we were in an endless pit of darkness and rain and rowing and wind and snow and rowing; constantly shivering with cold and faltering with fatigue. But then, on a dreary Monday evening at our weekly Committee Meeting (squeezed reluctantly in between one heavy…
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Hammersmith Head 2013
The day after the Women’s Head and it was UCLBC men’s turn to take to the Thames. The conditions the day before had been pleasant; with a strong stream carrying the boats down the course, there was little wind and a relatively mild temperature. The boys were not to be so lucky, enduring North Sea-like…
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WEHoRR
On Saturday the 9th March, 315 boats took to London’s River Thames for the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race, the most prestigious and significant of all Head races of the season. Crews from all over the country and, indeed, the world race at WEHoRR, From Olympic gold medalists to novice rowers who only…
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