Our all-Quintin Masters G eight was unlucky not to win a very close race with Tom Bishop's Quintin / Wallingford / Ardingly / Dart Totnes / Upper Thames composite, being pipped by less than half a second and with the next closest crew in a six-boat race over nine seconds behind. Before the race the cox box wiring was found to be broken and there was not enough time to repair it. Hilary Cook, coxing, was unable to coordinate the final push as the Quintin crew was overhauling the composite on the run-in.
Crew: Hilary Cook (cox), Richard Lonergan (stroke), Geoff Peel, Ian Hyslop, Jonathan Ferris, Bruce Lamka, Andrew Bramah, Roger Hine, Graham Bagnall (bow).