Three Men in a Boat the first episode of "Three Men Go to Scotland" was broadcast at the end of 2010. A stage adaptation earned Jeremy Nicholas a Best Newcomer in a Play nomination at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards. The book was adapted by Clive Francis for a 2006 production that toured the UK. A sculpture of a stylised boat was created in 1999 to commemorate "Three Men in a Boat" on the Millennium Green in New Southgate, London, where the author lived as a child. In 2012 a mosaic of a dog's head was put onto the same Green to commemorate Montmorency. In
The Boat Race 1925 illnesses, the Oxford crew was not finalised until five days before the race, and according to former Dark Blue rower and author George Drinkwater, "the innumerable changes prevented the crew from ever really getting together". Drinkwater also stated that the Oxford boat rowed with "three unfit men in the boat". Similarly, Cambridge were affected by illness, in particular the boat club president Robert Morrison who was forced to leave the crew. The Oxford crew weighed an average of 12 st 0.875 lb (78.5 kg), per rower more than their opponents. Cambridge's crew included six participants with Boat Race experience, all