I am a cox myself, so I usually try to stick up for other coxies, but sometimes, there is just no excuse. A pole is can be hard to see, the shore is not.
i'm a coxswain and i can say it's not easy...but it IS easy to tell when you're going straight towards the shore so this woman clearly either wasn't paying attention or can't steer for her life.
One of our freshman coxswains just did this but she ran into a neon orange channel marker. We lost our best 8 and our coach no longer trusts us with our 2nd. We just ordered two new boats that we aren't even allowed to touch when we get them.
Our novice boys just dropped our nicest racing quad on our dock. Snapped the fin and left some big dents. Long story short, novice boys will only be doing land days for the next month.
There's a liner inside to try to mitigate the risk of sinking from bow collapse (it isn't particularly rare) this allows you to get the boat back to dry land for repair and is safer for the crew. Where did they get that cox from? The infamy of carrying a broken boat back to the boat house, like being caught naked with a sheep.
Way to ruin a 60 grand Empacher. When I rowed in my school's empacher, we would be punished for putting it in the water too fast. I can't imagine what this crew's coach would have had to say about it. I rowed bow a few times, and was always reminded that bow is the first to get killed or hurt. Bow seat on this boat is one lucky SOB.
@shibalry Hey. The coxswains job is hard. I find this a insult considering i am a coxswain. We have a mental game making sure we dont Hit things. Keep track of our rowers. Watch the other boats. and more. So please dnt say our job isnt tat hard. Thanks. I get they should watch where they are going. noticing they were that close to shore. shore is easy to see. but things like poles are sometimes hard. So please dont judge coxswains.
Clearly Oxford has a different number of rowers in the boat, as at the end of the video it says the Pembroke 12! (should be IIX, or more commonly VIII)
it's not always the coxes fault, once the boat gets close to the bank the stream compounds the problem by forcing you ever nearer the bank!! however, I would be very annoyed if a boat came home like that!!
That is pathetic. The cox should have been farther off shore, I was Bow once and I had an idiot cox and saw my 40 grand shell heading into a pole and put so much drive on 1 stroke I swear I heard the rigger crack. Really the shame of carrying your broken empacher through a crowd of people especially the cox must have been horrific.
im in hoyoke, some ppl had gone under a bridge nd tore off the fin, put like a 2 foot gash in the boat, it was a 8. i seen it in theboat house at jones ferry
ohman... walk of shame much -___-''' that would actually suck... i remember coxing an 8 for the first time and a Prince Alfred junior quad scull popped out fromm my blind spot a little to late and we snapped out bow off about a ft off the ball... i felt sooo bad.. luckily it was just training and it was the shitty(er) boat. still these things should be avoided as much as possible.
