Eaglets finding their wings!

Emma Sprints race report - Elizabeth Leung

The Eddies Eaglets have officially fledged from the nest! Our novice women soared in their first race on Sunday at Emma Sprints dressed in their finest (hand-crafted!) eagle masks. With Eddie the Eagle tapped to their bow, the Eaglets braved through yellow-flag-worthy winds—they truly learned to fly in a storm. In their first race against Fitz they built up to an astonishing rate 38(!) off the start. When Fitz caught a crab early on, the Eaglets were able to soar past them to a quick victory (settling to a far more reasonable rate 28). 

Their second race with Lucy is best summarized by the Voice-to-Text message Kathy, our bank party & LBC, sent to our senior captain (poor punctuation intentional to reflect the original message): “That one was carnage we crashed blades at the start caught a crab then Lucy got away. Then they crabbed and changed their racing side and ended up on our side, so we had to go round them then they recovered, but we couldn’t claw the back and they pulled away from us in the end but yeah he was proper sprints chaos.” Don’t worry, we are tracking down video footage of this chaos. 

The Eaglets were all in high spirits having rowed their best. After putting the boat away, they were matriculated as true Eddies rowers by our greatest tradition of the post-race Fort St. George pub trip—even Eddie the Eagle partook in a well-deserved beverage. Tomorrow, they rest their legs and then the countdown to Clare Regatta begins!