Oxford University's Summer Eights
Starts: 12:00, 21 May 2008
Finishes: 18:00, 24 May 2008
Location
River Isis
Oxford
Description
Every year 15,000 spectators line the banks of the Isis as 150 crews race upstream in order to secure their place in the historic ‘bumps charts’. Line thirteen £16,000 boats in a line, fire the cannon and watch the mayhem as they set off upstream to ‘bump’ the boat in front of them.
Location: On the River Isis between Folly Bridge and Haystacks Corner
Organizing body: Oxford University Rowing Clubs
For more information contact:
Judy Gleen
Tel: 01865 248 597
Email: sabbatical@ourcs.org.uk
Website: www.ourcs.org.uk
Entrance: free of charge