From flag at cucbc.org Thu Feb 1 06:48:30 2018 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 06:48:30 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. Outlook: Enjoy it while it lasts! The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Fri Feb 2 06:46:19 2018 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 06:46:19 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. Outlook: Windy, but not quite bad enough for yellow. However, today is not a day for scratch crews with inexperienced coxes. Try to avoid staying stationary on the reach, and if you have to, be prepared to continuously take taps / back down to stay stationary. The CUCBC Committee From conor at cucbc.org Sun Feb 4 21:09:14 2018 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 21:09:14 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Umpiring Lent Bumps 2018 Message-ID: <17572B2F-E3AC-4076-AC3E-9B986C5DF8DB@cucbc.org> *Captains please forward this message to your clubs* Dear all, The time has come for Umpiring Sign Up. 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 are offered a free dinner (including drinks) at a pub the week after Bumps. Furthermore, everyone who volunteers for umpiring before Monday 19th Feb will count towards their college's marshal allocation (if you sign up after this, please drop me an email!). 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. We suggest you leave two divisions clear before your race and one after to allow you to get to and from the boathouses. The division times are available here: http://www.cucbc.org/lents/times The umpires briefing will be on Sunday 25th February, time and location TBC. It'll last about half an hour, and I?ll endeavour to distribute a first draft of the umpiring rota before the meeting. You can sign up here: http://www.cucbc.org/lents/umpires/signup If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at conor at cucbc.org Many thanks, Conor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 11 13:57:44 2018 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:57:44 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Yellow Flag Message-ID: The flag is Yellow. Boating is restricted to University crews, first VIIIs, men's crews in the top 2 divisions of the May Bumps and women's crews in the top division of the May Bumps as well as first fours and tub pairs. Members of crews permitted to boat under a Yellow Flag may do so in fours or small boats (i.e. single and double sculls and pairs) with the express permission of the Club Captain and/or Boatman. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 11 14:54:37 2018 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:54:37 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. Outlook: Wind dropping but occasionally gusty - take care. The CUCBC Committee From conor at cucbc.org Wed Feb 14 16:35:55 2018 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:35:55 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Umpiring Lent Bumps 2018 In-Reply-To: <17572B2F-E3AC-4076-AC3E-9B986C5DF8DB@cucbc.org> References: <17572B2F-E3AC-4076-AC3E-9B986C5DF8DB@cucbc.org> Message-ID: Dear all, Thanks to everyone who has signed up already. Unfortunately though, we're still in need of quite a lot more umpires for the Lent Bumps. Without Umpires, the Bumps simply can't go ahead safely, so please forward this message onto anyone who has Bumps experience (two sets minimum please), especially those who aren't competing this term. As added motivation, here's the signups by college so far (along with a reminder that colleges with fewer or no umpires will receive a lot more marshaling slots, and whilst umpiring slots are based on when you're free and get the best view of the action, marshaling slots are randomly assigned, often in less desirable locations, and immovable): Caius 2 Churchill 2 Darwin 2 Emmanuel 4 First & Third 3 Fitzwilliam 1 Hughes Hall 1 King's 1 Lady Margaret 1 Murray Edwards 2 Newnham 4 No College 1 Pembroke 4 Queens' 3 Selwyn 1 Sidney Sussex 5 St Catharine's 3 Wolfson 2 You can sign up here: http://www.cucbc.org/lents/umpires/signup Many thanks, Conor On 4 February 2018 at 21:09, Conor Burgess wrote: > **Captains please forward this message to your clubs** > > Dear all, > > The time has come for Umpiring Sign Up. 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 are offered a *free dinner* (including > drinks) at a pub the week after Bumps. Furthermore, everyone who volunteers > for umpiring before Monday 19th Feb will count towards their college's > marshal allocation (if you sign up after this, please drop me an email!). > > 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. We suggest you leave *two > divisions clear before* your race and *one after* to allow you to get to > and from the boathouses. The division times are available here: > http://www.cucbc.org/lents/times > > The umpires briefing will be on Sunday 25th February, time and location > TBC. It'll last about half an hour, and I?ll endeavour to distribute a > first draft of the umpiring rota before the meeting. > > You can sign up here: http://www.cucbc.org/lents/umpires/signup > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at conor at cucbc.org > > Many thanks, > Conor > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sophie Shapter has kindly agreed to give a presentation on steering, racing and navigating on the Tideway in Emmanuel college at 7:30pm on Tuesday the 6th of March (i.e. the Tuesday after Lent bumps). I've attached a quick note/bio from Sophie below to give a sense of her experience with this stretch of water. Speaking personally, I really can't recommend this talk enough. Racing on the Tideway is a fantastic experience, but utterly unlike racing on-Cam, and steering well to take advantage of the stream can reduce your time by tens of seconds. Please do consider sticking it in your diaries. Best of luck for the last week of training ahead of Lents, and hope to see many of you there, Isabel, CUCBC Committee --------------------- I'm Sophie Shapter, I've been coxing and coaching for almost 10 years now (probably too long) and up until this year, all my experience has been on the Tideway. I started coxing aged 13 at school when my coach told me I was small, pointed to the coxes seat and said "sit there". So I did, and have never looked back since (not literally, it's always good to look behind you once in a while). After a couple of years coxing at school, my coach sent me to Thames Rowing Club, where I started to cox the senior men. This was an awesome experience as I got to compete at a high club level at events like Men's Head and Henley from the age of 16. By the time I left school I decided I'd had enough of full time coxing and started to coach the junior squad at multiple clubs along the Tideway. Meanwhile I kept up my coxing by subbing into crews here there and everywhere for training and racing whenever needed. After three years of coaching my hunger to cox came back and I joined Tideway Scullers full time again, and now here I am at Cambridge coxing for CUWBC, heading for the Boat Race in a few weeks time. I never thought I'd ever get the opportunity to do The Boat Race, and it's been a dream of mine since the age of 15, so it's mad to think the dream will come true. Anyway, I'm going to be talking about coxing on the Tideway for those all important head races coming up, as well as how to structure a race plan, marshalling, and anything else that might be of interest to people. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conor at cucbc.org Sun Feb 18 22:11:31 2018 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:11:31 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Umpiring Lent Bumps 2018 In-Reply-To: References: <17572B2F-E3AC-4076-AC3E-9B986C5DF8DB@cucbc.org> Message-ID: Hi all, * Captains please forward to your experienced rowers * One final push would be appreciated - about 10 more people will make the rota a lot better for everyone. I?ll start to organise it all tomorrow evening, so sign ups by 18:00 tomorrow (Monday 19th) would be great! Best wishes, Conor On 14 Feb 2018, 16:35 +0000, Conor Burgess , wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks to everyone who has signed up already. Unfortunately though, we're still in need of quite a lot more umpires for the Lent Bumps. Without Umpires, the Bumps simply can't go ahead safely, so please forward this message onto anyone who has Bumps experience (two sets minimum please), especially those who aren't competing this term. > > As added motivation, here's the signups by college so far (along with a reminder that colleges with fewer or no umpires will receive a lot more marshaling slots, and whilst umpiring slots are based on when you're free and get the best view of the action, marshaling slots are randomly assigned, often in less desirable locations, and immovable): > > Caius 2 > Churchill 2 > Darwin 2 > Emmanuel 4 > First & Third 3 > Fitzwilliam 1 > Hughes Hall 1 > King's 1 > Lady Margaret 1 > Murray Edwards 2 > Newnham 4 > No College 1 > Pembroke 4 > Queens' 3 > Selwyn 1 > Sidney Sussex 5 > St Catharine's 3 > Wolfson 2 > > You can sign up here:?http://www.cucbc.org/lents/umpires/signup > > Many thanks, > Conor > > > On 4 February 2018 at 21:09, Conor Burgess wrote: > > > *Captains please forward this message to your clubs* > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > The time has come for Umpiring Sign Up. 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 are offered a?free dinner?(including drinks) at a pub the week after Bumps. Furthermore, everyone who volunteers for umpiring before Monday 19th Feb will count towards their college's marshal allocation (if you sign up after this, please drop me an email!). > > > > > > 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. We suggest you leave two divisions clear before your race and one after to allow you to get to and from the boathouses. The division times are available here:?http://www.cucbc.org/lents/times > > > > > > The umpires briefing will be on Sunday 25th February, time and location TBC. It'll last about half an hour, and I?ll endeavour to distribute a first draft of the umpiring rota before the meeting. > > > > > > You can sign up here:?http://www.cucbc.org/lents/umpires/signup > > > > > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at?conor at cucbc.org > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > Conor > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We will be keeping an eye out for any clubs which seem to be suspiciously short on actual representatives; one per club is not acceptable. Le 19 f?vr. 2018 14:04, "Sam Deutsch" a ?crit : Dear All, Apologies for the late notice for the pre-bumps meetings, we are still confirming the venue for these but they will be held on Sunday 25 February (this week). Below are the timings for these meetings. A reminder that all coxes MUST attend one of the Coxes Briefings. Anyone who has coxed Lents or Mays before may attend the Senior Coxes briefing, while anyone has has not coxed Bumps before MUST attend the Novice Coxes briefing: 18:00-18:30 - Captains 18:30-19:15 - Umpires 19:15-19:45 - Senior coxes 19:45-20:30 - Novice coxes Any problems feel free to get in touch! Best, Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone who has coxed Lents or Mays before may attend the Senior Coxes briefing, while anyone has has not coxed Bumps before MUST attend the Novice Coxes briefing: 18:00-18:30 - Captains 18:30-19:15 - Umpires 19:15-19:45 - Senior coxes 19:45-20:30 - Novice coxes Any problems feel free to get in touch! Best, Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From felicity at cucbc.org Fri Feb 23 20:11:08 2018 From: felicity at cucbc.org (Felicity Parker) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:11:08 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Getting-On Race results Message-ID: Dear all, The following crews (given here in the random order in which they have been put in the start order) Got On: *Men* St Catharine's III Caius III Caius IV St Edmund's II Downing III Wolfson II Pembroke III Selwyn II Queens' IV Hughes Hall II Homerton II *Women* Sidney Sussex II Homerton II Emmanuel III Pembroke III The times of the crews which did not Get On or which raced for Time Only are as follows: *Men* Trinity Hall III 8:04.0 Christ's III 8:05.0 First and Third IV 8:20.0 Girton II 8:21.0 Trinity Hall IV 8:31.0 Lady Margaret IV 8:44.0 Churchill III 8:49.0 Darwin II 8:50.0 Clare IV (TO) 8:51.0 Wolfson III (TO) 8:54.0 Jesus IV 9:03.0 Trinity Hall V 9:23.0 Sidney Sussex III 9:34.0 Fitzwilliam III (TO) 9:39.0 King's III (TO) DNS *Women* Trinity Hall III 9:06.0 Pembroke IV (TO) 9:30.0 Fitzwilliam II 9:32.0 Newnham IV 9:39.0 Selwyn II (TO) 9:58.0 The Start Order has now been finalised. 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URL: From conor at cucbc.org Mon Feb 26 16:33:15 2018 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:33:15 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Fwd: Some common sense reminders from the CUs for this week In-Reply-To: <1075908495.8877738.1519661724383@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1075908495.8877738.1519661724383.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1075908495.8877738.1519661724383@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear all, Please read the message from Ian and Pete (our CUs this week) very carefully; it contains lots of important information. Best wishes, Conor ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 'PETER CONVEY' via committee Date: 26 February 2018 at 16:15 Subject: Some common sense reminders from the CUs for this week To: CUCBC Coxes , CUCBC Captains Cc: CUCBC Senior Committee , CUCBC Committee < committee at cucbc.org> Dear all I am sure you are very well aware of the prevailing weather and forecast for this week. There will be a number of factors over the week that crews will need to be prepared for. The week will be chronically cold, with temperatures only just positive, and possibly below zero on some days. There may also be increasing winds later in the week, which will compound risks of wind chill. Any situation where individuals are wet will also compound this risk. At present there is no indication that conditions will restrict our ability to run the races as planned. We will be monitoring conditions closely before and during racing each day, the main factor that might at present lead to cancellation of racing being ice formation overnight, in which case a notice will be sent out. Remembering a few practical points will help things to run smoothly: - make sure all your crew have appropriate extra warm and dry kit with them to keep warm while waiting at any point (marshallling, before start, waiting for any delays after racing, paddling home), and make sure they wear it when needed (it doesn't achieve anything in a rucksac!) - bank parties could sensibly carry hot drinks in flasks, as well as emergency space blankets - please make sure all crews marshall on time and in the correct positions, and paddle down to start correctly and safely; any delays to the process will only expose everyone to the cold for longer - please inform an official rapidly if it becomes apparent a crew member is showing any signs of developing problems with the cold (hypothermia) In conditions such as expected, it is particularly important that crews and coxes follow all the normal safety and practical rules around bumping, and pay particular attention to safe and rapid clearing after bumps take place. This as ever is important to reduce the possibility of major incidents, both in terms of the potential for injury, and of holding up multiple following crews. As normal, in such situations, we will only run rerows when absolutely necessary, and decisions will inevitably have to take the prevailing conditions into account. Good luck to all racing! Pete and Ian (Chief Umpires) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conor at cucbc.org Tue Feb 27 22:21:35 2018 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:21:35 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Lent Bumps 2018 Tuesday Results and Notes & Fines Message-ID: <65348593-20E4-4965-88DE-BF7D912F64FA@cucbc.org> Dear all Thanks to everyone for a great first day of racing and we hope you didn?t get too cold! Today's results can be found here: http://www.cucbc.org/lents Notes from the Umpires Tomorrow is forecast to be even colder than today, please bring lots of kit to keep warm! Know where your finish is. In particular M4/W4 should not be racing after the railway bridge. Crews should remember that they should not expect there to be an umpire at the finish telling them when to wind it down unless they are genuinely close to making or being bumped. All coxes are reminded that lifejackets MUST be outside your outermost layer. They will not do you any good if they auto-inflate under a coat; and quite possibly make it very difficult to swim. A reminder to all cyclists (bank parties, umpires and otherwise) that commuters use the towpath as well - please be wary of them, particularly in the last division of the day. Fines Caius M4 - Dropped bung, no advantage - ?15 Caius M2 - Public urination - ?85 Churchill M2 - Rowing back after the division to fetch dropped blade - Extra bank pass available for suitably trained large dog to fetch next time Clare Hall M1 - Dropped bung, no advantage - ?15 Corpus Christi W1 - Foul language - warning; not acceptable even when directed at your own crew Corpus Christi W1 - Incompetent marshalling - ?20 Darwin W2 - Forgot bung, no advantage - ?15 Darwin W1 - Pulling into station facing the lock - Back it down for Thursday's race. First and Third M3 - Dropped bung, no advantage - ?15 Hughes Hall W1 - Excessive greenery - Plant sufficient trees to restore balance to the planet Jesus W3 - Failure to clear - ?30 Jesus M3 - Dropped bung, no advantage - ?15 King's M2 - Leaving a snapped blade floating in the river for the umpires to play hook-a-duck with - Provide further games for the umpires after each day's racing Lady Margaret W3 - Cox's early celebration - ?20 Lady Margaret W3 - Cox's failure to instruct crew to hold it up - ?20 Lucy Cavendish W2 - No lifejacket - ?50 Lucy Cavendish W2 - Dropped bung, no advantage - ?15 Murray Edwards W2 - Singing in boat - prepare an opera for Saturday's race Selwyn W1 - Failure to row into a stationary crew - cox to come and claim a chocolate-based prize from control Trinity Hall W2 - Celebrating before clearing - ?30 Wolfson M1 - Illegal practice start - ?50 All fines can be appealed by e-mailing Dan Wilkins, CUCBC Senior Treasurer (seniortreasurer at cucbc.org), within 48 hours of this email being sent. 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