Trinity Term In Uqbar

We here in Uqbar follow the British school year and educational system with slavish, or former slavish, devotion. So there is a type of Eights Week. We have added to it with dragon boat races, bathtub races, and inner tubes floating around carrying drunks. This is the annual tramp oil tanker race:

The Eights Week race is an open timed race, first across the finish line wins.

The Hilary Week race in Spring is a bumps race. In a bumps race, the boats line up single-file, take off at the start, and attempt to "bump" each other from the behind. This type of shenanigans explains a good deal of the pollution in the older part of Uqbar harbor.