Precedence

These rules are subordinate to the Club’s Constitution and Safety Procedures.

Access to the Policy, Amendment and Review

These rules will be displayed in the clubroom, in the boathouse and on the club website.  They will be issued by the Rowing Committee[1] and subject to review at the Annual Members’ Meeting.

Applicability

These rules are applicable to all rowing members.

1. Boat Allocation Guidelines

Boat use is determined by weight range and ability, not sex or age.  An exception to this, outlined below, is where funding has been obtained to procure certain boats for a particular age-range of members.

Training schedules reflect this allocation process by ensuring that groups (as far as possible) train at separate times.

Where crews wish to row in an established training period used by other groups, they must ensure that they liaise with the relevant coach/co‑ordinator/captain to ensure the boat(s) they wish to use are available.

If necessary to avoid changing settings etc, coaches can ask that the club does not use boats that are required for high‑level competition, a maximum of 2 weeks prior to the event.  The captain will consider any such requirement.

Due to the lack of equivalent alternative boats and the frequency at which they are raced at high-level competition the two Filippi boats, coxless quad (Simon Adlam) and single scull (Laurie Evans), are only to be used by crews who are planning to race in them.  The Captain should be notified of the intention of any crew to train and race in these boats.

The Project Oarsome (PO) boats and Blue Acre are only to be used by juniors until advised otherwise.  This is due to the auditing requirements imposed by the purchase funding arrangements and failure to adhere to this rule may affect the future ability to obtain this type of funding.

2. Movement of Boats

To help avoid damage to boats, coordinators/coaches are responsible for the movements of boats.  Ultimately if crews cannot lift the boats safely, then they should not attempt to move them until sufficient people are available to help.  If there are not enough people to help then crews will have to consider alternative training options.

3. Rowing at Night and in Low Visibility Conditions

At night and in low visibility rowing in coxless boats is prohibited.

In such conditions coxed boats are to be equipped with a white light at both front and rear.

[1] Or Club Committee, if Rowing Committee not formed.