In message , at 13:29:48 on Tue, 4
Jan 2005, Terry Harper remarked:
As regards punting, we had a JCR punt scheme, where the JCR hired a number
of punts for the summer term, one or two mat each of three locations, and
you put your name down when you wanted one.

IIRC there are fewer "riverside" colleges in Oxford, than Cambridge, so
perhaps there's more incentive to organise things like that.

Did a bit of punting from the wrong end of the boat in Cambridge in 1964,
when on a course there.

Oxford folk get plenty of training for punting at the wrong end, when
out on the Isis!
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Roland Perry

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In message , at 13:29:48 on Tue, 4
Jan 2005, Terry Harper remarked:
As regards punting, we had a JCR punt scheme, where the JCR hired a
number
of punts for the summer term, one or two mat each of three locations, and
you put your name down when you wanted one.

IIRC there are fewer "riverside" colleges in Oxford, than Cambridge, so
perhaps there's more incentive to organise things like that.

Did a bit of punting from the wrong end of the boat in Cambridge in 1964,
when on a course there.

Oxford folk get plenty of training for punting at the wrong end, when
out on the Isis!

We prefer to use the Cherwell, thank you very much.

Why do you like to punt standing on the foc'stle? It makes steering a
hazardous occupation.
--
Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
75th Anniversary 2004, see http://www.omnibussoc.org/75th.htm
E-mail:
URL: http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/

"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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Why do you like to punt standing on the foc'stle? It makes steering a
hazardous occupation.

It actually feels easier to drive a Cambridge boat from the Cambridge end, I
haven't worked out the physics but it must be getting a better angle or
something, and the length of the pole and the depth of the river probably
come into it.

I've tried punting an Oxford boat from the Cambridge end and indeed it
doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is that Oxford punts are week
feeble things and lack the necessary torsional rigidity, with the result
that your energy goes into setting up twisting motions along the length of
the boat (I guess if you tried hard enough you could get it to fling you
sideways off the side of the boat) instead of moving the boat forwards.

So I drive Cambridge boats from the Cambridge end and Oxford boats from the
Oxford end. Not that punting in Oxford is a terribly interesting experience
anyway, due to them having put the river in the wrong place.

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Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear
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"Tim Ward" wrote in message
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So I drive Cambridge boats from the Cambridge end and Oxford boats from
the
Oxford end. Not that punting in Oxford is a terribly interesting
experience
anyway, due to them having put the river in the wrong place.

You've never been on the rollers through Parson's Pleasure, then?
--
Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
75th Anniversary 2004, see http://www.omnibussoc.org/75th.htm
E-mail:
URL: http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/