The rafts are launched from the Meadows, and make their way downriver, under the Queens' Park Suspension Bridge (still in the throes of refurbishment), where generally they have bags of flour and water bombs hurled at them by members of the public, and down to the weir, which they have to drag their rafts over and down to the small island just before the Old Dee Bridge. They must go round the island, then head back upstream, carrying their rafts over the weir, once again braving the bridge, and back to the Meadows. In theory the fastest back is the winner, but often the raft which inflicts the most damage on the others considers itself the
real winner. Mostly, crews are just out to have fun, and to prove to themselves that they can do it.
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| Around the island... |
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| ...and over the weiir |
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| Bewildered onlooker |
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| Man overboard! |
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