From tom at cucbc.org Fri May 2 20:08:18 2014 From: tom at cucbc.org (Tom Grimble) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 21:08:18 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps 2014 - Entries now open Message-ID: Dear Captains Entries are now open for the May Bumps 2014, which will run from Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th June. Crews can be entered on the CUCBC website . The entry fee is ?40 per crew and cheques made payable to "Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs" should to sent to Henk-Jaap Wagenaar, CUCBC Junior Treasurer at Peterhouse. The entry deadline for crews and for submitting payment of entry fees and CUCBC bills is Friday 16th May. Submissions for the bumps programmes have to be made separately at The Bumps Crew Lists . The same deadline applies for these submissions in order to get the programmes printed in time. Also please send any eligibility queries or exception requests in as soon as possible. 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The wash from an VIII at race pace is significant and on a narrow stretch can rock any moored craft. All crews should slow down and paddle when passing moored boats over the lock and plan your pieces and training around this. Please consider this a final warning on this matter and any future incidents of discourtesy will be dealt with harshly. *Mobile phones for coxes* Please make sure that coxes carry a mobile phone in case of emergencies especially if your crew is going out unaccompanied and it is definitely advisable to carry one even if you have a coach on the bank in case you become separated. We are aware that many people have expensive smartphones and don't want to risk losing them. Potential solutions to this include, you club investing in a cheap and old pay as you go phone as part of the kit, putting you phone in a waterproof container like a water bottle that will float in case it becomes separated from you or the boat, or simply just be careful and don't drop it. We bring this up due to a recent incident of an VIII having rocks thrown at it from a bridge. In this situation you should first get your crew away from danger and then immediately report it to the police. Thanks and we hope everyone is having a productive term of training so far! Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob at cuwbc.org.uk Thu May 8 16:42:16 2014 From: rob at cuwbc.org.uk (Rob Baker) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 17:42:16 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] BUCS regatta Message-ID: <53C7FFEF-49CC-4A3C-985E-0BAB7B80903A@cuwbc.org.uk> Dear Captains, Last weekend the CUWBC entered a Beginner eight at BUCS regatta, there were 41 entries and this is a category taken very seriously by the top rowing Universities. Our eight consisted of college novices who we selected based on erg tests and some subjective analysis on the ergs and in the boat. The crew managed to win! the racing consisted of a time trial, semi and final, our eight was clearly the quickest in each round. This result was off of the back of only three sessions as a crew together. The crew rated 30 strokes a minute down the course, compared to 34/5 from most of the other crews, goes to prove how simple strokes with power and length move the boat! So this email is to thank all of you for allowing those athletes and the others in the Dev squad to get involved. Also a big well done for the development you have made to get your athletes to this point. Next year I plan on sending a bigger squad again and I think we can look at some college eights and fours racing if you are interested. Thanks again and please do push your best athletes to get involved in the Dev squad and trialling for CUWBC, 2015 is going to be a big year for our club! Rob Baker CUWBC Chief Coach +44 7989395125 rob at cuwbc.org.uk From ian at ianfarrell.org Mon May 12 20:43:29 2014 From: ian at ianfarrell.org (Ian Farrell) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:43:29 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] Fwd: Cambridge Nines Spring Regatta References: <227D8EB1-3406-4D9B-A9CC-C13E5341FC82@ianfarrell.org> Message-ID: <6F131193-0A79-420C-A3A3-812F5522EEC8@ianfarrell.org> Dear all Owing to a few advertising-related delays, we are extending the deadline for entries to the annual Nines Regatta until 20th May 2014. Although please do let us have your entries as soon as possible. You can email crew entries to regatta at cambridge 99.org. More details on our website at www.cambridge99.org Many thanks Ian Farrell Begin forwarded message: > From: Ian Farrell > Subject: Cambridge Nines Spring Regatta > Date: 28 April 2014 09:47:39 BST > To: "captains at lists.cucbc.org" , "contacts at lists.cucbc.org" > > Dear all > > 25 May sees our annual 'Cambridge Nines' Spring Regatta. This 1000m side-by-side race down the Long Reach is an enjoyable afternoon of racing, and the perfect preparation for May bumps. Come and practise those racing starts, or size up the opposition in your division. > > The regatta is a plate competition, meaning everyone will get at least two races. We'll run divisions back-to-back, so racing should be complete in under two hours.* > > Pots will be awarded to the winning crews at the Cambridge '99 RC boathouse later in the afternoon, and the club fielding the most winning crews will be awarded bonus prize of a slab of beer. > > Categories are: > > Men?s CRA / Graduate / Alumni 8+ > Men?s First May Bumps Division College 8+ > Men?s Second May Bumps Division College 8+ > Men?s Third May Bumps Division College 8+ > Men?s Lower May Bumps Divisions College 8+ > > Women?s CRA / Graduate / Alumni 8+ > Women?s First May Bumps Division College 8+ > Women?s Second May Bumps Division College 8+ > Women?s Lower May Bumps Divisions College 8+ > > Mixed 8+ (four men, four women) > > Please submit your entries to regatta at cambridge99.org by Tue 13 May 2014. Payment of ?48 per crew can be made by cheque (payable to 'Cambridge 99 RC Ltd' which can be dropped off at the boathouse any time before race day) > > We look forward to seeing you at the regatta on 25 May. > > - The Cambridge '99 Rowing Club > > -- > * Last-minute scratchings or odd numbers of entries in a division may require a crew to be given a bye through to the next round. This may reduce the number of races, or could necessitate a wait while other crews race. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tom at cucbc.org Wed May 14 14:18:34 2014 From: tom at cucbc.org (Tom Grimble) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:18:34 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps 2014 - Entries now open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Captains Just a gentle reminder that you have until Friday to get your bumps entries in. All the details are in the email below and on the CUCBC website frontpage. If there are any questions or problems please let me know asap. Late entries or payments will result in that club being "gently encouraged" to provide cakes and snacks for the umpires during bumps week. All the best Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary On 2 May 2014 21:08, Tom Grimble wrote: > Dear Captains > > Entries are now open for the May Bumps 2014, which will run from > Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th June. > > Crews can be entered on the CUCBC website > . > > The entry fee is ?40 per crew and cheques made payable to "Cambridge > University Combined Boat Clubs" should to sent to Henk-Jaap Wagenaar, CUCBC > Junior Treasurer at Peterhouse. > > The entry deadline for crews and for submitting payment of entry fees and > CUCBC bills is Friday 16th May. > > Submissions for the bumps programmes have to be made separately at The > Bumps Crew Lists . 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Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary On 2 May 2014 21:08, Tom Grimble wrote: > Dear Captains > > Entries are now open for the May Bumps 2014, which will run from > Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th June. > > Crews can be entered on the CUCBC website > . > > The entry fee is ?40 per crew and cheques made payable to "Cambridge > University Combined Boat Clubs" should to sent to Henk-Jaap Wagenaar, CUCBC > Junior Treasurer at Peterhouse. > > The entry deadline for crews and for submitting payment of entry fees and > CUCBC bills is Friday 16th May. > > Submissions for the bumps programmes have to be made separately at The > Bumps Crew Lists . The same deadline > applies for these submissions in order to get the programmes printed in > time. > > Also please send any eligibility queries or exception requests in as soon > as possible. > > Best wishes > > Tom Grimble > CUCBC Honorary Secretary > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary On 16 May 2014 17:01, Tom Grimble wrote: > Dear all > > This is the final reminder that bumps entries are due TONIGHT. Failure to > enter may result in you not being able to compete. The entry system will > close at 11:45pm. > > Please also submit your payment and your bumps programme submissions by > tonight. All the details are in the email below. > > Tom Grimble > CUCBC Honorary Secretary > > > On 2 May 2014 21:08, Tom Grimble wrote: > >> Dear Captains >> >> Entries are now open for the May Bumps 2014, which will run from >> Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th June. >> >> Crews can be entered on the CUCBC website >> . >> >> The entry fee is ?40 per crew and cheques made payable to "Cambridge >> University Combined Boat Clubs" should to sent to Henk-Jaap Wagenaar, CUCBC >> Junior Treasurer at Peterhouse. >> >> The entry deadline for crews and for submitting payment of entry fees and >> CUCBC bills is Friday 16th May. >> >> Submissions for the bumps programmes have to be made separately at The >> Bumps Crew Lists . 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Thank you, John Parker HHBC Captain From tom at cucbc.org Tue May 20 20:21:27 2014 From: tom at cucbc.org (Tom Grimble) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 21:21:27 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps 2014 - Provisional Start Order Message-ID: Dear all The provisional start order for May Bumps 2014 is now available on the CUCBC website . Please be aware that this is subject to change if there are any scratches and after the Getting-on Race results. There will be 9 divisions. The bottom division will be a split M6/W4. The top 6 stations will be M6 and the bottom 12 will be W4. Division times are now updated. Please note that racing will end at the normal time (i.e. M1 starts at 19:45 as usual) and the first division of the day will just start 45 minutes later. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any queries about the start order or racing in general. Best wishes Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From beth.price at camfm.co.uk Wed May 21 21:30:47 2014 From: beth.price at camfm.co.uk (Beth Price) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:30:47 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps on CamFM Message-ID: <82a8debd9c893a56b17b3c69c168a52d@cam.ac.uk> Hello, I?m Head of Sport at CamFM and, as part of our May Bumps commentary this year, am looking to get as many interviews and features prepared as possible. If any of you are up for being interviewed (individually or with a full crew) that would be brilliant, as would any interviews with coaches if that?s possible. If there are any blues rowers in your squads as well, I?d really like to chat to them. I will do my level best to fit around other people?s timetables & commitments and would really appreciate it if you or anyone could do this. Thanks, Beth -- Beth Price Head of Sport - CamFM www.camfm.co.uk From tom at cucbc.org Thu May 22 13:09:04 2014 From: tom at cucbc.org (Tom Grimble) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:09:04 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] CUCBC Committee Positions 2014-15 Message-ID: *Captains: Please pass this message on to anyone in your club who may beinterested in CUCBC Committee Positions* Dear all With the May Bumps fast approaching and the academic year almost over, we are starting to think about appointing next year's CUCBC Executive Committee. There are four open positions, all of which are open to **any**member of the College boat clubs. Involvement with the CUCBC committee is fun and rewarding and a good way of giving something back to College rowing in Cambridge, so if you are enthusiastic about college rowing and would like to get involved on the organisational side, please do consider applying for a position. While there are a number of defined jobs, responsibilities (particularly organising and umpiring the major races) tend to be shared between committee members who will work together throughout the year. If you wish to run for any of these positions, please send a brief manifesto outlining your experience and what you will bring to the position to Tom Grimble, CUCBC Honorary Secretary (tom at cucbc.org), by Friday 6th June. I also strongly recommend getting involved in umpiring this year?s May Bumps (details of which will follow in the next week). Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to know more. *CUCBC Honorary Secretary* This position will be elected at the pre-May Bumps Captains' Meeting (Sunday 8th June) by the College Captains. Candidates will give a brief speech to the Captains before they vote. Current: Tom Grimble (tom at cucbc.org) The Honorary Secretary is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the CUCBC committee; organisation of CUCBC events (Uni IVs, Lents, SBR, Mays) and day-to-day administration of College rowing. This includes issuing fines and dealing with straight forward appeals, compiling agendas and minutes for the Captains' meetings, arranging marshalling rotas and organising the start of year LBCs' course. You will also be the Captains' main representative on the Executive Committee. The Honorary Secretary will generally take responsibility for organising one of the CUCBC events, while the others will be distributed between committee members. While there are a number of responsibilities, they are spread out over the year and completed with the help of the other committee members. This is a rewarding job for an energetic and enthusiastic person! *Junior Treasurer* This position will be co-opted by the current Executive Committee. Current: Henk-Jaap Wagenaar (juniortreasurer at cucbc.org) The junior treasurer takes responsibility for the day-to-day running of CUCBC's finances, including drawing up and distributing bills to the College Boat Clubs and preparing the budget with the Senior Treasurer. *Events Secretary* This position (1 or more persons, as deemed appropriate) will be co-opted by the current Executive Committee. Current: Philip Garsed (events at cucbc.org) The events secretary helps with the organisation and running of CUCBC races. While overall responsibility for the CUCBC events will be divided between committee members (so you will not have to do everything!), the events secretary helps out with arranging umpires and organising and distributing umpiring kit. You will also liaise with the producers of the Bumps programmes and arrange the presentations and upkeep of the University medals and trophies. A fun job if you want to get involved with running races on the Cam! *Coxes' Representative* This position will be elected at the May Bumps Coxes' Meetings (Sunday 8th June) by the coxes. Current: Mat Bryan (coxing at cucbc.org) The coxes' rep aids the development of coxes within the College boat clubs, including arranging the novice coxes' meeting in Michaelmas term as well as giving the pre-Bumps coxes' briefings and any other ideas you may have! In addition to these positions, the CUCBC Committee also comprises the Honorary Secretaries of the three University clubs (CUBC, CUWBC, CULRC). Each of these clubs have their own election procedures which will be or have already been circulated by the current Honorary Secretaries. We look forward to hearing from you! Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Any scratch notifications should be emailed to tom at cucbc.org and juniortreasurer at cucbc.org before 5pm Wednesday 4th June for a a full refund. Any sub requests should also be sent in for consideration. Please remember that anyone that rows in a successful Getting-on race crew is not permitted to row in a higher boat for bumps, so please do not use subs from your 1st/2nd boats etc. We are aware that some exams clash with these race times, but it is not possible to move the start any later. If there are any questions feel free to drop me an email. Tom Grimble CUCBC Honorary Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From events at cucbc.org Tue May 27 21:00:28 2014 From: events at cucbc.org (CUCBC Events) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:00:28 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps 2014 - Call for Umpires! Message-ID: **Please forward this message to any members of your club who may be interested in umpiring** Dear all, With only a few short weeks until the start of the May Bumps (11th - 14th June), we are looking to recruit umpires for this year's racing. Umpiring is a great way to get involved in the racing and you get the chance to be right at the centre of the action - either by cycling along with the crews or acting as a static umpire along the course. As a 'thank you' for your time, all umpires will be offered a *free dinner* (including drinks) at the Cambridge Blue pub, the week after bumps. Those who volunteer to umpire also count towards their college's marshal allocation. You don't need to have umpired before. There will be a meeting for all umpires ahead of racing where we explain everything and all new umpires are paired with a 'senior' one during racing. However, we do ask that you have rowed or coxed in at least 2 sets of bumps before so that you understand how the races work. Please remember that you can both compete and umpire. I suggest you leave 2 divisions clear before your race and 1 after to allow you to get to and from the boathouses. The division times are available here . The umpires meeting is currently scheduled for Sunday 8th June @ 17:30 in Robinson College Umney Theatre and should last about half an hour. So, why not get involved and click here to sign up! (Why not invite your friends too?) If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at events at cucbc.org. *If you sign up earlier, you stand a better chance of getting the number/type of slots you prefer!* Philip Garsed CUCBC Events Secretary events at cucbc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at cucbc.org Wed May 28 22:16:33 2014 From: mark at cucbc.org (Mark Jacobs) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:16:33 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] Quality / congestion of outings Message-ID: <53866041.2030008@cucbc.org> Dear All, At the most recent Captains' meeting, I outlined my hopes for improving the quality of college rowing in the future. We skirted over a number of ideas, and I'd now like you to consider them all in more detail for a proper debate before the Mays. I'd like to then agree on some trial measures to be implemented in Michaelmas, subject to a review partway through the term if they are felt not to be working. I believe that the areas for consideration are as follows: * A cap at peak times based on the size of the club. This would have to be flexible enough to allows clubs to grow and shrink in the usual way without any unfair advantages/penalties being applied. In order to give a practicable spread of outing quotas, it is likely that this would be measured in outings per week rather than per day, with difficulties in monitoring. CUCBC does not have any system beyond the early morning marshals to record outings, and while I hope I'm mistaken I don't believe we've been inundated with lots of people eager to serve their turn on the committee next year. * Streaming of men/women and upper/lower boats to even out speed differences, which may assist overall traffic flow. Likely to lead to less flexibility for scheduling outings though. * Better education of coaches - both in terms of knowing how to get crews effectively moving and in terms of consideration for other boats. We've all been frustrated when stuck behind boats doing inapproprite exercises, not all of which appear to benefit the crew in question! Any such scheme to improve the knowledge of coaches would only work with support and cooperation from the highly skilled and able coaches that some of you are fortunate enough to work with - if only half of them could be talked into giving an hour one evening/weekend to talk about a particular point, we'd soon have a pretty full calendar. I've not yet sounded anyone out about this, believing that it would be better coming from keen/interested club members than me trying to twist arms on the towpath! * Crew selection methods - at New Hall last term we had a first boat (that trained in the mornings) and two lower boats (one that trained in the mornings and one that trained in the afternoons). Our 'W2' and 'W3' were both pretty evenly matched for speed after 6 weeks, and both managed to qualify for the Lents. Our W3 had fewer outings, but at more productive times of the day. Could such a method of crew selection work at your club? Please send this around the whole club (rowers, coxes, coaches etc.) and come prepared to represent their views before bumps. If anyone feels motivated enough to draft a proposal, please do so and I'll send it around everyone for consideration before the meeting. There are a few things I'd like to make clear: * I don't want the meeting to turn into a forum for recriminations/accusations - these will not be productive! * Rowing in the hours of darkness is not an option. Likewise, significant relaxation of the flag system is unlikely (though we may be able to take slightly more lenient views on flag status if typical traffic density and quality of crews can be changed for the better). * My aim in opening this debate is not to simply cut participation in rowing, though personally I would gladly trade a division of lower boats in bumps for better rowing at the top. Luckily or otherwise, depending on your point of view, I don't get a vote on whatever measures are adopted! * The meeting is your forum, to represent your views. The CUCBC will endeavour to enforce whatever measures are settled upon, so long as they are safe, unlikely to cause problems to others outside the college rowing community and that we have the resources in place to do so. Regards, Mark Jacobs CUCBC Safety Advisor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From events at cucbc.org Fri May 30 22:02:11 2014 From: events at cucbc.org (CUCBC Events) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 23:02:11 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] May Bumps Umpiring - Second Call! Message-ID: Dear all, I'd just like to remind you that we're still looking to recruit umpires for this year's May Bumps. It's a great way to be part of the racing (without too much physical effort) and enjoy being by the river in the sunshine. If you have haven't signed up yet, do so now! I'll be arranging the rota from next week and the quicker you are, the more likely you are to get to do the slots you want - don't forget there is also an excellent free dinner at stake! Captains - do encourage people in your clubs who haven't umpired before to give it a go. Providing more umpires directly reduces the number of marshals required of you for bumps, and people with experience of helping to run races are great for organising college events and coaching. No umpiring experience is necessary, just experience of rowing/coxing in two sets of bumps. If you haven't tried it before, give it a go - there is a good reason so many umpires return year after year. The sign-up form is here: http://www.cucbc.org/mays/umpires/signup Any questions, contact me at events at cucbc.org Philip Garsed CUCBC Events Secretary events at cucbc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: