Journey's End

This week Shipwrecks played a final friendly against Galloway Allstars, who mustered a full crew to sink our coxless eight plus volunteer Rory.

Shipwrecks 85 for 7 (Taylor 25 ret, Service 12 ; Scobie 3-23, N. Hamblin 2-9) : Galloway Allstars 86 - 4 (G. Hamblin 28 ret, Williams 26 ret, T. McGrath 14 n.o.)

Scobie to Dougan

Batting first, Shipwrecks made heavy weather for themselves when their first four hands were dismissed for single figures trying to hoist the lady bowlers and it took a salty, Pugwash-like rearguard action from Taylor to post a vaguely respectable total.

As Shipwrecks struggled for bowlers the visitors nevertheless resorted to gender discrimination in easily knocking off the target of 86, of which the lady sailors made precisely two.

Meanwhile we look forward to the annual curry night on 22 September, kindly sponsored by the East India Company.