Talk:The Boat Race
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[edit] Race with the tide
Are you sure the Boat Race is against the tide? 16:19 over 4 and a half miles against the tide on the Tideway seems too good to be true. (I have rowed it in the opposite direction in Schools' Head, with both the tide and the current in my favour, and have never gone faster than 19 minutes - this year we are hoping for around 18 minutes.) Gingekerr 22:17, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I am almost certain that you are right. Google search is not definitive. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 22:56, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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- Well spotted there. You're quite right. Now corrected. EddEdmondson 12:44, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The statement The race is rowed towards the end of the incoming tide with the aim that the last of the incoming tide will cancel the effects of the stream and the water will be "slack" when the race takes place. appeared on here on 8th March. Is this really true? I thought it was timed to coincide with a fast incoming tide (much like the timing for the Head of the River Race where the first crew sets off with the fastest flowing water) The ITV coverage today suggested a stream of over 1 m/s in the direction of the race at the start, hardly "slack" water. Richard B 22:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title
Is "Boat Race" really a better name? If I typed in Boat Race (knowing nothing about the toic) I would expect to find information about boat races or a list of them. -fonzy
- There is no article to be had on generic "boat races", I don't think. Even List of boat races would be dubious, there are so many different types of boats and races. Compare List of land-based vehicle races. I don't see a problem. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 12:52, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- See Boat race (which is a redirect to Rowing) as opposed to Boat Race. Don't know whether this redirect is appropriate but the article seems appropriate for a generic piece. EddEdmondson 13:51, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Should be The Boat Race as in the LOGO on this very page and website www.theboatrace.org. Jooler 12:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Boats
What kind of boats do they use and where are they made can you get the same type of boat for individual use?
- Both boats used in the Boat Race this year were made by Empacher, but there are a number of other manufacturers around the world. Most manufacters do make single-person sculling boats. Richard B 22:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- The equipment is standard rowing equipment, and there's a link to the sport of rowing, so I would say that there's no need for anything special in this wiki. 194.74.200.66 14:23, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Images and paragraphing
At the moment the article seems to be mainly large chunks of unbroken text. It could do with some images and formatting to break it up a bit. Maybe adding in more sections as well. True Blue certainly deserves its own subsection with a link to the main article--The Spith 10:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
