Torpids

Wednesday was the first day of the big rowing race for this term, called Torpids. In Torpids, the boats start staggered, and then try to catch up and "bump" the boats in front of them. Once you bump a boat, you stop rowing, and start in front of that boat the next day, and repeat. St. Catz did really well yesterday. The women's boat bumped the boat in front of them in 5 strokes, and it only took the men about 1 minute to chase down Wadham college.














Update: The men's 1st VIII boat bumped in each of the four races. This means they are awarded "Blades". This is a traditional wooden blade with the colors of the college painted on, with the names of the crew on it.
The women did really well too, they bumped in the first three races, but just missed out on Blades by not bumping on Saturday.