Early as it was, there were plenty of
scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide; the navigation of the river between bridges, in an open boat, was a much easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we went ahead among many skiffs and wherries, briskly.
It was an amateur-sculler, well up to his work though taking it easily, in so light a boat that the Rogue remarked: 'A little less on you, and you'd a'most ha' been a Wagerbut'; then went to work at his windlass handles and sluices, to let the sculler in.
The water rose and rose as the sluice poured in, dispersing the scum which had formed behind the lumbering gates, and sending the boat up, so that the sculler gradually rose like an apparition against the light from the bargeman's point of view.
"Oh, drat the man!" she would exclaim, when some unfortunate
sculler would get in her way; "why don't he look where he's going?"
1716: The oldest surviving sporting contest, the Doggett's Coat and Badge, for Thames
scullers, was held for the first time.
Alison Gordon and Liz Ashbourne raced in the Masters women's quad in composite crews, winning their heats then racing against each other where Alison's crew made up of Castle Semple and Lomand
scullers beat the Lakeland boat.
| Captain Tim Ives shows off his Single Scull winners tankard, flanked by winning Ladies Double
Scullers Eric Gummery and Zoe Poyner.
In the single
scullers Melissa McGarva saw off some tough competition to win the women's novice single scull.There were also wins for the doubles in women's masters double for Sam Brett and Sandra Engstorm, junior 15 double scull for RobbieWaddell and Quinn McDonnell, mixed coxed four for Natalie Firth, Lindsey Arnott, Gregor Hall, Chris Hartley and Sam Brett and the mixed double for Natalie Firth and Gregor Hall.
George Watson's had the fastest open single
sculler and their J16 open and women's double
scullers were also faster than senior opposition, while Talkin Tarn's J18 single
sculler was the quickest of the women's singles.
In September 2016, Bloom and the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra opened the band's 44th season at
Scullers Jazz Club in Boston with North by Northeast, a new composition by music director Mark Harvey.
Welsh
scullers Gemma Hall and Ellie Lewis also impressed with sixth and eighth-placed finishes respectively in the women's lightweight singles (21.01/21.20), in which world singles silver medallist Imogen Walsh (20.14) showed Olympic champion Kat Copeland, in second (20.34), the way home.
He added: "Charles Dickens praised the sensational victory of the Tyneside
scullers, who held their title for a quarter of a century in coxed fours, pairs or as individuals."