The Punt Society at St John's College, Cambridge, has produced a "Bluffer's Guide To Punting'' on its website.
Experienced student punters explain how to start, lift the pole, and steer in a set of illustrated Internet instructions and tell learners how to look like a professional and not like a tourist.

Missing heirloom
A man who left a £180,000 17th century family heirloom violin on a train is offering £10,000 for its safe return.
Rob Napier was bringing the antique instrument, which was passed to him and his four siblings when his mother died in 2006, home from London.
Getting off the train at his home station of Bedwyn, Wiltshire, he forgot to collect the violin from the luggage rack. He alerted British Transport Police but when the train was checked at Taunton the violin was nowhere to be found.

First crash
A 93-year-old man is to quit driving after causing £60,000 of damage in his first car accident.
Jack Higgs, of Penarth, south Wales, is to relinquish his hitherto unblemished driving licence after writing off a Porsche 911 and damaging another vehicle when he reversed into them.
The former Pentecostal minister also wrecked his Ford Fiesta, which flipped upside down as a result of the collision on Thursday April 3. He was not injured.

Copping for it
A burglary suspect escaped by stealing a police car, despite being handcuffed.
The 29-year-old man had been detained on suspicion of breaking and entering in Brisbane, Australia. Two officers handcuffed him and left him in the back of the car while they examined a bag outside.
The suspect then climbed into the driver's seat and drove away.

Nasal salute
A 13-year-old boy hopes to set a world record for inflating balloons with his nose.
Blowing through one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl from the US state of Washington inflated 213 balloons within an hour.
His father Doug measured the balloons to make sure each was at least 20cm, the minimum diameter.

High score
Computer programmer Bernie Peng reworked his girlfriend's favourite video game so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
Tammy Li reached the needed score – and said yes.
The reprogramming was a tricky task and took Peng, from Seattle in the US, a month. "I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way,'' he said.