[CUCBC Captains] Rise in Incidents

[David O'Loughlin]

Dear Captains,

Copied to all Boatmen and Senior Treasurers. 

There are an increasing number of incidents being mentioned to members of
CUCBC informally. These include reckless steering, near misses and capsizes.
Where a formal report is received by CUCBC by email to committee at cucbc.org
<mailto:committee at cucbc.org>  we will address it, but we need to remind you
all that you have a responsibility as part of your British Rowing
registration to report any incident or concern, whether or not damage,
injury or a health issue has occurred, via their online portal:
https://incidentreporting.britishrowing.org/. You can do this as a Club,
Individual, Event Organiser, or 3rd Party who needs to report an incident or
concern. 

Your club must be keeping records of incident reports. This includes near
misses, scrapes, and any "routine" damage. This is especially important when
you have caused damage to another boat - or when you could have caused
unseen damage, such as beneath the waterline of a houseboat. Further
information, guidance and templates can be found at
https://www.britishrowing.org/knowledge/safety/. 

We have also had feedback from members of the town rowing and residential
communities that there have been several negative interactions with college
crews, particularly concerning damage to houseboats and poor decision making
when manoeuvring around other watercraft. These must be recorded in your
club's incident reports. We have a section concerning collisions with other
watercraft as part of our handbook:
https://www.cucbc.org/handbook/coxes_coaches/collision, which includes a
procedure for how to properly push off a moored boat, which should be shared
with all coxes and lower boat captains. Repairs to houseboats and other
moored craft can be very expensive for residents. While accidents happen, we
all share the river, and CUCBC will not tolerate bad behaviour on either the
river itself or on the towpath, either by crews, coaches or supporters. We
hope that good sense will prevail in this respect, but if not, we will apply
increasingly severe penalties to individuals or clubs that offend.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns. 

CUCBC Senior and Executive Committees 



 

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