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Christopher Anton · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 190

There were three very brief rowing snippets on today's Lewis on ITV. I
presume it was the Isis and they were a 4x and and W2x (twice), not the sort
of boats I'd associate with the Isis. One was rowed on the wrong side of the
river so I presume they'd been hired as extras rather than just passing
crews. It wasn't CORC kit and they seemed to be there just for decoration as
they weren't part of the plot.

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mpwmpw1 · Joined: 15 Nov 2007 Posts: 9

On Feb 25, 12:04 am, "Christopher Anton"
wrote:
> There were three very brief rowing snippets on today's Lewis on ITV. I
> presume it was the Isis and they were a 4x and and W2x (twice), not the sort
> of boats I'd associate with the Isis. One was rowed on the wrong side of the
> river so I presume they'd been hired as extras rather than just passing
> crews. It wasn't CORC kit and they seemed to be there just for decoration as
> they weren't part of the plot.

Forgive my curiousity but - not being an Oxford person past or present
- why wouldn't you associate those types of boats with the Isis?

Christopher Anton · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 190

wrote in message @s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 25, 12:04 am, "Christopher Anton"
wrote:
> There were three very brief rowing snippets on today's Lewis on ITV. I
> presume it was the Isis and they were a 4x and and W2x (twice), not the
> sort
> of boats I'd associate with the Isis. One was rowed on the wrong side of
> the
> river so I presume they'd been hired as extras rather than just passing
> crews. It wasn't CORC kit and they seemed to be there just for decoration
> as
> they weren't part of the plot.

Forgive my curiousity but - not being an Oxford person past or present
- why wouldn't you associate those types of boats with the Isis?

Well I'd reckon that a good 80% of boats that set out onto the Isis wouldbe
eights

Rachel Quarrell · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 13

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Christopher Anton wrote:

> wrote in message
> @s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 25, 12:04 am, "Christopher Anton"
> wrote:
>> There were three very brief rowing snippets on today's Lewis on ITV. I
>> presume it was the Isis and they were a 4x and and W2x (twice), not the
>> sort
>> of boats I'd associate with the Isis. One was rowed on the wrong side of
>> the
>> river so I presume they'd been hired as extras rather than just passing
>> crews. It wasn't CORC kit and they seemed to be there just for decoration
>> as
>> they weren't part of the plot.
>
> Forgive my curiousity but - not being an Oxford person past or present
> - why wouldn't you associate those types of boats with the Isis?
>
> Well I'd reckon that a good 80% of boats that set out onto the Isis wouldbe
> eights

Both points fair enough - while most Isis shells are 8+, there's a wide
variety of other boats used, and not all by non-college clubs. Most of
the colleges have at least one single and a couple of fours now, and some
have a double or a pair. Haven't seen a college quad for years though.
There are more than CORC on the Isis too - Falcon and Academicals row
regularly.

I blinked and almost missed the Lewis shots, but even the actual boat
shots looked like the Cherwell, not the Isis, which might mean boats
borrowed from the Dragon School or MCS. More likely the former - the area
was probably the upper Cherwell near the Parks. The banks and width
looked wrong for the Isis unless they played some tricksiness.

RQ.

rowtv.news · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

On 26 Feb, 22:40, Rachel Quarrell
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Christopher Anton wrote:
> > wrote in message
> >@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> > On Feb 25, 12:04 am, "Christopher Anton"
> > wrote:
> >> There were three very brief rowing snippets on today's Lewis on ITV. I
> >> presume it was the Isis and they were a 4x and and W2x (twice), not the
> >> sort
> >> of boats I'd associate with the Isis. One was rowed on the wrong side of
> >> the
> >> river so I presume they'd been hired as extras rather than just passing
> >> crews. It wasn't CORC kit and they seemed to be there just for decoration
> >> as
> >> they weren't part of the plot.
>
> > Forgive my curiousity but - not being an Oxford person past or present
> > - why wouldn't you associate those types of boats with the Isis?
>
> > Well I'd reckon that a good 80% of boats that set out onto the Isis wouldbe
> > eights
>
> Both points fair enough - while most Isis shells are 8+, there's a wide
> variety of other boats used, and not all by non-college clubs. Most of
> the colleges have at least one single and a couple of fours now, and some
> have a double or a pair. Haven't seen a college quad for years though.
> There are more than CORC on the Isis too - Falcon and Academicals row
> regularly.
>
> I blinked and almost missed the Lewis shots, but even the actual boat
> shots looked like the Cherwell, not the Isis, which might mean boats
> borrowed from the Dragon School or MCS. More likely the former - the area
> was probably the upper Cherwell near the Parks. The banks and width
> looked wrong for the Isis unless they played some tricksiness.
>
> RQ.

It might have been MCS (Magdalen College School), if only because the
cameras were there to shoot a guided tour on the School bridge hearing
a tale about crocodiles in the Cherwell. I don't think MCS have any
eights these days.

But the low banks and open fields opposite stumped me. I think Rachel
must be right ... near the Parks, shot from the Marston bank.

David Flook

David Hope · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

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