The 131st Boat Race took place on 6 April 1985. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and...
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The Boat Race 2022 was a side-by-side rowing race which took place on 3 April 2022. Held annually, The Boat Race is contested between crews from the universities...
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boat play/game, but can be translated to boat race in English. The most popular event of the race is the competition of Chundan Vallams (snake boats)...
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The Boat Race 2018 (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Race for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 24 March 2018. Held annually, The Boat...
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The Women's Boat Race is an annual rowing race between Cambridge University Boat Club and Oxford University Women's Boat Club. First rowed in 1927, the...
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Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water. Boat racing powered by oars is recorded as having occurred in ancient...
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The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark...
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The 132nd Boat Race took place on 29 March 1986. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 141st Boat Race took place on 1 April 1995. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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Cambridge. The event included the Lightweight Men's Boat Race from 1975 to 2018, the Women's Boat Race from 1977 to 2014, the Lightweight Women's Boat Race from...
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The 130th Boat Race took place on 18 March 1984. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and...
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The Bayview Mackinac Boat Race is run by the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit, Michigan. It is one of the longest fresh-water races in the world with over...
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dimensions of the yacht. Much public attention however, focuses on the race for "line honours" – the first boat across the finishing line, typically the newest...
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Fifteen boats started out from Southampton on 28 September 1985 for the around-the-world race. L'Esprit d'Équipe, skippered by Lionel Péan, won the race in...
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Harvard–Yale Regatta (redirect from Harvard-Yale Boat Race)
The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of...
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called the On Board Reporter (OBR), who does not contribute to the sailing of the boat, but is responsible for sending images and video to race headquarters...
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This is a list of the Oxford University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. A coxswain or oarsman earns their rowing...
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Daniel Topolski (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
books about rowing, The Oxford Revival (1985) and True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (1989; with Patrick Robinson). He wrote for The Observer for more...
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flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers and shallow water. Punting is boating in a punt; the punter propels the punt by pushing...
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US Coast Guard boat with armed personnel. The captain of the vessel declares that the refugees are welcomed to the United States, but the Guardsmen open...
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Rowing (sport) (category Boating)
established boat clubs in the world. The Boat Race between Oxford University and Cambridge University first took place in 1829, and was the second intercollegiate...
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least 75 boats flipped upside down". The race drew further attention from outside the sport in 1985 when the maxi yacht Drum capsized after the keel sheared...
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1979. More Ches'n'Dale boats followed, with numbers three and four donated in 1985. Piha won the gruelling Tuakua Sands River Race – from Tuakau to Port...
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The 39th Women's Boat Race took place on 24 March 1984. The contest was between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and held as part of...
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Lion New Zealand (sailing yacht) (category Volvo Ocean Race yachts)
of the Sydney to Hobart, which the yacht not only survived but also won, the boat was nicknamed the "Urban Assault Vehicle". Race, Volvo Ocean. "1985-86"...
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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better...
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list of the Cambridge University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. Rowers are listed left to right in boat position...
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Tracy Edwards (category Volvo Ocean Race sailors)
Ocean Race, S.L.U. 12 June 2014. Edgar, James (12 June 2014). "Yachtswoman Tracy Edwards launches bid to save decaying boat – 25 years on". The Telegraph...
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Peter Fazer (category Volvo Ocean Race sailors)
competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1985-86, he was a crewmember on the boat Fazer Finland in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Evans, Hilary;...
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The Super Mac is a non-periodic 568 mile (about 500 nautical miles) sail boat race from Chicago, IL to Port Huron, MI, or vice versa. Recent editions have...
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