From conor at cucbc.org Wed Aug 12 11:00:33 2020 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:00:33 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] Chisholm Trail bridge installation - river closures In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <73E37AFE-186B-4C23-89CB-CAF604F2359A@cucbc.org> Dear all, * Captains: If your club is currently allowing single scullers or doubles out, or planning to allow fours/quads from the 15th, please pass this message on to them. * The delayed works are now due to commence tomorrow (Thursday 13th August). Please see the Cam Conservators calendar (perhaps best viewed in this Google Calendar format ) for an easy to follow breakdown of the closures. The full closures will completely obstruct the full width of the river, whilst the restricted navigation outside of these times have notes detailing the navigable width of the river (minimum 9m, which I believe should be just enough to squeeze a sweep boat through, though one way at a time of course - so please take care and be courteous). The towpath will remain open throughout. Best wishes, Conor > On 18 Jul 2020, at 11:36, Conor Burgess wrote: > > Dear all, > > Unfortunately these works have been delayed by issues with the licenses required to complete the works. Supposedly they will now start on the 5th August, but that isn?t confirmed. I?ll let you all know when we have confirmed dates. > > Best wishes, > Conor > On 17 Jul 2020, 07:58 +0100, Conor Burgess , wrote: > Dear all, > > * Captains: If your club is currently allowing single scullers or doubles out, please pass this message on to them. * > > To install the new jetty under the railway bridge and lift the new Chisholm Trail bridge into place, there will be two-three weeks of river closures, starting next Monday 20th July, and many of these will be full river closures. > > The full schedule is outlined here: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKGCP/bulletins/2959e8d > > The River Manager has kindly provided some additional details: > ? The river will definitely be open at weekends > ? The towpath will be open throughout, so you can climb out and walk your boat past the full river closure if you?d like to go out during them. > ? The daytime closures are from 8am to 6pm. > ? Outside the daytime closures, the river may still be obstructed so much that it?d be difficult to fit a single past (the pontoon is 3m wider than the one they used for the piling). You could still walk your boat around if this is the case. > Best wishes, > Conor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From af667 at cam.ac.uk Sun Aug 16 14:57:31 2020 From: af667 at cam.ac.uk (Anna Feest) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 14:57:31 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] QErgs 2020 Message-ID: Dear Captains, We hope you are all well and looking forward to Michaelmas. By now you are probably thinking about returning to the river, and in particular, novices. A highlight of the novice term and the first big rowing-related competition of the year is QErgs, and we would like to give you a small update on our plans for this. QErgs usually takes place halfway through Michaelmas, with over 900 competitors and around 1500 people in total. These numbers are difficult to manage in any normal year and this year is going to have its own special challenges. Right now, we are doing our best to look at all our options for running the event in order to make it safe, while still enjoyable. Our plans also need approval from Queens? College, who as you can imagine have a lot to deal with at the moment. Whatever form the event takes, and whenever it happens, there will certainly be some changes, but we will let you know as soon as we can as to what these changes will be. We want QErgs to happen and we will do whatever we can to ensure it does. Please bear with us while we are planning and preparing, and we will let you know as soon as possible what you can expect from QErgs 2020. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at qcbc-ergs at srcf.net Best wishes, Anna Feest QErgs President 2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob at cubc.org.uk Wed Aug 19 14:28:53 2020 From: rob at cubc.org.uk (Rob Baker) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:28:53 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] Coxes Message-ID: Dear Captains, I hope this finds you well and looking forward to some normality on return to University life. We start the Boat Race campaign on the 29th of August and find ourselves a bit short on coxes after a few people have dropped out. Would you please pass this message along to your college coxes and see if anyone would be interested in trialling for the mens team? If anyone is interested please contact me directly, there is a great opportunity to learn, improve and perhaps cox a Boat Race crew! Best, Rob Baker Chief Coach Cambridge University Boat Club The Goldie Boathouse Kimberley Road Cambridge CB4 1HJ T: 07989 395 125 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conor at cucbc.org Thu Aug 20 12:48:12 2020 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:48:12 +0100 Subject: [CUCBC Captains] Sculling with earphones Message-ID: <3939638E-F677-43FE-BD6E-39A117017E94@cucbc.org> Hi all, * Captains please pass this message on to any scullers from your club * We?ve received reports of scullers who?ve been wearing earphones whilst on the water. Please refrain from doing so, as it is extremely dangerous. Regardless of the competence of the scullers in question, there?s no way to control the competence of everyone else on the river, and it is imperative that people facing in the opposite direction to their direction of travel can hear clearly. Best wishes, Conor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: