<div dir="ltr">Dear Captains, <div><br></div><div>A reminder to please enter your crews for Bumps. Deadline is Sunday 28th May 2023, 10pm sharp.</div><div>The Committee can be contacted for any queries. </div><div><br></div><div>A reminder that the bumps briefings will take place on the evening, Sunday 11th June. (the sunday between GoR and bumps). We are fortunate to be able to deliver these in the Main lecture theatre, St John's College, with thanks to the LMBC captains. Further details will follow, however a reminder that all novice coxes must attend in person. </div><div><br></div><div>We've also had reports of crews rowing into houseboats and/or clashing blades with houseboats as a result of poor steering or borderline unsafe overtakes. This must stop. If contact is inevitable with houseboats, push off above the waterline and apologise and de-escalate tensions, exchanging details if necessary. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>The CUCBC committees.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Limeng Zhu<br>CUCBC Exec,</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 08:36, David O'Loughlin <<a href="mailto:davidoloughlin@cucbc.org">davidoloughlin@cucbc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div lang="EN-IE" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dear Captains,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">I hope you are all doing well!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">We are happy to announce that entries for May Bumps are now Open, the Entry Deadline is Sunday 28th May 2023 - 22:00.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The cost of entry is £50 per boat. Those that row the
<span>GoR</span> but fail to get on will have that reduced to £25.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Please carefully read the eligibility rules for Bumps (<a href="http://cucbc.org/handbook/racing/general" title="http://cucbc.org/handbook/racing/general" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,120,215)">General
| CUCBC</span></a> and <a href="http://cucbc.org/handbook/racing/bumps" title="http://cucbc.org/handbook/racing/bumps" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,120,215)">Lent and May Races | CUCBC</span></a>). For example:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">- Those with 1st boat colours may not row/steer any lower than the third division/third boat, whichever is lower (NB: those who have rowed and coxed are considered separately for rowing and coxing).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">- Those with University colours (including reserves) may not row/steer lower than the third boat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Also please recall that all crews wishing to enter Bumps
<b>must</b> have completed 12 outings of 60 minutes or longer by the first day of Bumps (outings on weekdays after 9am count as 1.5). We will be asking for 12-outing declarations in due course.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The pre-Bumps briefings will take place on the evening of Sunday 11<sup>th</sup> June, location TBC. Please make sure all coxes - in particular those coxes that have not rowed Bumps before -
keep this evening available, else they will not be allowed to compete. Those which have rowed Bumps before may send a competent representative in their stead if they are unavailable.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">David<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)">CUCBC Exec Committee
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