Registration

Registration will be in the Portacabin just next to the main building. Please have your ARA cards and/or BUSA cards with you. You can register for BUSA events and ARA events at the same time. Please register as soon as possible and, in any case, an hour before the first scheduled race in your event. If you wish to register a substitute please have that person’s ARA card or BUSA card with you at registration.

You will be given an Empacher number and paper number(s) when you register. Please wear the paper numbers on your racing kit, one on the bow man and one on the cox if you are coxed.

Digital Photos may be taken of crew members to assist with identification.

Lightweights Weighing in

Usual BUSA lightweight rules will apply. Lightweights individual max weight is 72.5kg for men and 59kgs for women. There is no crew averaging. The lightweight weigh-in will be between 7:30am and 8:30am.

Coxes

Coxes minimum weights are 55Kg for men and 50Kg for women. Coxes may be weighed at anytime before their first race. (between 7:30am and 8:30am lightweight crews will have priority).

Coxes may be weighed in the clothing suitable for the conditions. The regatta reserves the right to reweigh any cox, suspected of racing in less clothing that weighed.

Course, circulation pattern, practising and racing

The course will be a 500m sprint raced over 4 buoyed lanes. The draw pattern will be decided based upon the number of entries.

For the basic circulation pattern, see the diagram. All crews will boat from the southern pontoon in the boating area and turn right out of the bay. There will not be much boating capacity so please be as quick as you can. You will need to bring wellies.

Circulation pattern (TP: Trailer Park / CP: Car Park / OCP) 29/03/2008 (download circulation pattern)

To get to the start, keep going towards the south side of the lake where you will be marshalled and sent onto the stake boats.

When you have crossed the finish line in your race you have about 50m in which to wind down and turn to come back into the boating area. Please ensure that you turn before the white buoys. The north end of the lake is not hired out to us and you might endanger people using it. Furthermore, the lake beyond the white buoys contains submerged stakes which are part of the lake maintenance programme and might damage you or your boat.

Please come back into the boating area using the northern pontoon only.

If you wish to practice you may use the “lane” on the west side of the racing lanes in the direction of racing. Do not interfere with racing crews. The practice lane is only however long it is; you will need to turn well before the island.

You can practise on Saturday afternoon if the course is set up and the lake is quiet. You can also practice early on Sunday morning. Official safety cover will only be provided during race times.

Safety arrangements

Safety cover on the water is being provided by Waterland. There will be at least two boats on the water at all times, one each side of the 500m course.

The 200m and 400m umpires will also be on the water. If you have an incident, you should be within shouting distance of an official who will summon help for you.

First aid cover will be provided by St John who will have an ambulance and two First Aiders at the site. Special arrangements will be made for anyone who capsizes to have a shower.

If anyone needs to go to hospital he or she will be taken to Cirencester A & E who will have been notified about the event.

Waterland have notified the local PC and PCSO.

Download the notice to all crew members.