The worst regatta ever - crashes and cockups in the Snowflake Regatta Carnage 2014

[editor]

Awesome stuff:

• :13 - A boat straight up rows into a pier, knocking someone overboard

• :21 - A boat is seemingly stuck on land

• :40 - An aimlessly adrift boat gets in another's way, prompting angry mothers to yell "assholes!" and "you RUINED IT for them!"

• 1:00 - Two boats are just chilling in the middle of the course after they got in each other's way

• 1:00 to 1:40 - Apparently it takes a Herculean effort to disengage two boats

• 1:45 - Phew, they're finally disengaged

• 1:50 - OH GOD THEY DISENGAGED INTO THE PATH OF A THIRD BOAT!

• 2:10 - A kid gets clocked in the head by another boat's oar

• 2:27 - A boat has to slow down after realizing they're running into land

• 2:38 - They avoid the land, but run into what looks like a hanging orange trash bag

• 2:45 - Some guy sums up the race with an anguished, "oh no, again?!" as two boats run into each other

 

[JTG]

What a 'cox' up!

*chortle*

 

[passenger]

i thought it was going to be about a reggae concert thing

so pleased i clicked the link, so funny great find

 

[The Boy]

JTG has already stolen my joke. I'm out.

 

[JTG]

JTG has already stolen my joke. I'm out.

I'm sorry, did you get that sinking feeling?

Shouldn't have stuck my oar in really

 

[StoneRoad]

could say they were all at sea ......

most of the problems seemed to be the inability to steer ....... just glad none of these boats were in the Thames Jubilee regatta.
chatting whilst still on the course is always a bad idea.

 

[Celyn]

What a lovely mess!

(Admittedly I did once manage to get a rowing boat stuck on top of a tree)

 

[Sunray]

Tip: When employing a cox, ensure they can see.

 

[Utopia]

Ah ladies……."know your limits"

 

[SpookyFrank]

I get the impression they keep deliberately fucking up just to troll their shouty, insufferable parents.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I had no idea rowing was such a laugh.

 

[SpookyFrank]

My university had a rowing team. They were the lads who weren't quite bright enough to play rugby, so basically we're talking a six-foot slab of algae in a lycra one-piece with an immaculately gelled buzz cut on top.