Coach Thrasher

Bumps Racing in Boston

Reid Kleckner, PARC alumni, has some excellent shots of his MIT friends sinking the the Peking University eight at Head of the Charles this year. Good going guys! :)

It pays to have an experienced coxswain in situations like that. It's was really great thinking of the Chinese cox (who is an MIT grad student) to stay with the boat while it sank. The rowers should have stayed with the boat as well. You can hear people yelling in the video to "stay with the boat". Imagine one of the next 8's cruising through the bridge and right over the swimming rowers! Yikes!... that would be crazy: watch out for the skeg. I guess the Mandarin translator missed the regatta.

What's a coxswain to do? Humm... how high of a stroke rate can the MIT boat go to? But more realisticly, the Chinese boat should have never hit the MIT guys.

Posted at 09:27PM Oct 28, 2006 by jason in Rowing  |