<div dir="ltr">Captains, please forward this to anyone who will be an early morning marshal in the near future.<br><br>Instructions for Early Morning Marshals are on the website and in the clipboard you pick up at Goldie. However, a few things need to be cleared up:<br>
<ol><li>Location: the instruction sheets give rough locations for Marshal 1 and Marshal 2. To clarify, we would prefer if, at lighting down, Marshal 1 was near King's/Churchill/Selwyn boathouse and Marshal 2 was near Clare/Pembroke/Emma boathouses to monitor boating times. After the initial rush of crews at lighting down, Marshal 1 should move to the area surrounding the gate to Stourbridge Common (including on towards Chesterton footbridge) and Marshal 2 to around King's/Churchill/Selwyn boathouse. Keep moving around during your shift though.</li>
<li>Marshals should be competent and should know most colleges' blade colours. If you don't recognise some blades, try using the code on the boat or the colour of kit. If you still don't know then describe the blade colours and I'll work it out. <b>Don't</b> do as this morning's marshal did and "miss out a couple I didn't recognise" (though if you know they're "town" boats then do ignore them).</li>
<li><b>Don't</b> write down boats coming back <b>unless</b> you didn't see them go out at all <b>or</b> they're causing an accident/being too noisy/breaking some other rule.</li><li><b>Do</b> write down University crews (although they will be leaving for Ely in the next few weeks).<br>
</li><li><b>Do</b> write down the size of boat (1x/2x/4+/8+/etc) - not all the sheets say to do this but it is helpful for me.</li><li><b>Do</b> be reasonably detailed with your notes - if crews are noisy, report them. If they're extremely noisy, say that. <b>Don't</b> be lazy and leave the notes column blank on every single boat - is it not a boring job with lots of time to kill anyway?! Amusing comments are appreciated in moderation!</li>
<li><b>Do</b> report any coaches accompanying boats before 7.30am, whether they are coaching or not. If they are coaching, tell them (quietly) to stop (and report it on your sheet).</li><li>Do remember the early morning restrictions (rule 8) will only be brought in when we consider traffic to require it. The commencement of any restrictions will be announced on the website and by email to all mailing lists.<br>
</li></ol>Thank you for your help in making this system work.<br><br>Thomas<br>CUCBC Secretary<br></div>