From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 3 08:25:29 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:25:29 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Red/Yellow Flag Message-ID: The flag is Red/Yellow. The river is closed, except to tub pairs between Jesus Lock and Chesterton and University crews with the express permission of their Head Coach. Outlook: River has frozen again and is currently impassable at the P&E. Will be re-assesssed closer to 11am. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 3 10:17:41 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:17:41 +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. Outlook: River is still partially frozen, but some town crews have begun to break it up, and it is apparently passable, but crews should proceed with caution. Flag will be changed to green when it melts further. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 3 13:27:07 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:27:07 +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. Outlook: Unfortunately not melting as fast as we???d hoped, so remaining yellow for the next few hours at least. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sun Feb 3 22:52:55 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:52:55 +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. Outlook: High winds forecast for tomorrow morning. Flag will be re-assessed before lighting down. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Mon Feb 4 06:48:15 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:48:15 +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. Outlook: High winds, forecast to keep getting worse over the next hour. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Mon Feb 4 14:26:52 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:26:52 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Wed Feb 6 21:08:48 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:08:48 +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. Outlook: High winds forecast for the morning. Flag will be re-assessed before lighting down. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Thu Feb 7 05:28:05 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:28:05 +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. Outlook: Winds are very high, and are forecast to remain high for most of the day. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Thu Feb 7 14:47:15 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:47:15 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. Outlook: Winds have died down a little, although (as always) a critical assessment should still be made before boating of a crew's and cox's ability to handle the conditions. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Thu Feb 7 22:26:11 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:26:11 +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. Outlook: High winds forecast from lighting down for the entire day The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sat Feb 9 10:19:07 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 10:19:07 +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. Outlook: Please consider carefully the experience and ability of both cox and rowers when deciding whether or not to boat. It is very very windy. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Sat Feb 9 18:39:07 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 18:39:07 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. The CUCBC Committee From izzy at cucbc.org Mon Feb 11 15:41:59 2019 From: izzy at cucbc.org (Isabel Nimmo) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:41:59 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Lent Term Cox Announcements Message-ID: Dear Coxes, Bit of a mammoth e-mail, I'm afraid. Before I get started, could I ask any cox captains to pass on to their junior coxes who are not on the cox mailing list, and club captains - I'm aware not all of you have cox captains, so the same request. Many thanks! *Bumps Safety Briefings* These will be held early evening on Sunday the 3rd of March. Exact time and venue will be confirmed soon. Most of you will have sat through at least one of these before, but for the benefit of those competing for the first time, these are safety briefings held for all participating coxes. Novice coxes (defined as those who have not competed in a set of CUCBC run bumps before) must attend in person, unless they receive permission to miss it from the CUCBC Safety Officer. Senior coxes (those who have competed before) may be represented by another senior cox, provided that representative undertakes to brief them in turn before the start of racing. *Bumps Bank Parties* Following on from some discussions over the summer, it was suggested that bank party (especially inexperienced ones) and some rowers might find it useful to come along to the briefings to have a better understanding of what coxes are likely to be doing, especially when clearing after a bump. Come one, come all! I'm looking for a fairly big venue. I think it's unlikely we'll fill it! This is very much not a requirement (I'm well aware that many of the members of bank parties have been doing this a *lot* longer than I have), but an invitation to anyone who'd like to come along. *Other Cox Related Stuff* Also following on from some discussions over the summer, it has been suggested that CUCBC could do a little bit more to facilitate general cox happiness. I'm afraid last term was eaten by novice stuff, and I've basically been pretty unwell since early January, but I'm awake now and better late than never. With that in mind, I'd like to suggest three possible things: 1) very informal cox social. If popular, I suggest taking over a coffee shop some evening or weekend. It'd be a chance to have a chat to other coxes, complain about rowers, and whinge about how cold it is. 2) The safety briefing is purely about safety. I would not set myself up as the font of all bumps knowledge, but I'm happy to call in some favours and put some experienced coxes in the room after the safety briefing for a Q&A/general chat about how to race bumps effectively (as well as safely). 3) Coxing Seminar - this had very mixed reviews last time, but I've had a few messages recently asking us to run another one. With all of these, I'm not actually sure how popular they'd actually be. Given that, I've stuck up a poll on the Coxes of Cambridge FB group (if you don't know what this is, search for it - it will change your life when it comes to finding subs!) Please feel free to express opinions there, or by shooting me an e-mail if you'd rather. Hope you're all well, not too frozen, and best of luck for the rest of training and racing this term. Isabel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From flag at cucbc.org Fri Feb 15 07:10:45 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:10:45 +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. Outlook: Very foggy, please carry lights and keep them on. The CUCBC Committee From flag at cucbc.org Fri Feb 15 08:29:39 2019 From: flag at cucbc.org (flag at cucbc.org) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:29:39 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Green Flag Message-ID: The flag is Green. There are no restrictions on which crews may boat. The CUCBC Committee From conor at cucbc.org Fri Feb 15 22:56:19 2019 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:56:19 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Umpiring Lent Bumps 2019 Message-ID: *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 Wednesday 27th 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 3rd March, 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 izzy at cucbc.org Thu Feb 21 12:34:47 2019 From: izzy at cucbc.org (Isabel Nimmo) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:34:47 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Lent Term Cox Announcements In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Coxes and Captains, Again, if I could ask any cox captains to pass on to their junior coxes who are not on the cox mailing list, and club captains - I'm aware not all of you have cox captains, so the same request. Many thanks! Thanks to all of you who've been in touch following my last (massive!) message. Various updates *Cox Social* I'm not proposing anything radical this side of bumps since we've all got outings, safety meetings and racing to do, but I and a few other coxes will be lurking in the Fort St George pub between 2 and 5pm this Sunday. Come down before an outing, after an outing, or just for a chance to complain about rowers/the weather/the flag/CUCBC-in-general with other coxes. Look for the pile of splash tops! Also, if anyone would like to help organise a cox formal post-bumps, please let me know. I'm too old and grumpy to be allowed a college any more, so can't book one myself. :( *Pre-Bumps Q&A* I've had a couple of very kind (and experienced) volunteers offer to run an informal Q&A for bumps coxes after the novice safety briefing on the 3rd of March. If you want to ask questions of someone who's been there and done that, come along! *Coxing Seminar-type thing* Will have to happen post bumps. There's quite enough excitement going on already this term! There will, however, be a Tideway steering and marshalling briefing for anyone interested in such a thing (mostly looking at folk doing WEHoRR or ManHORR) on the 12th of March. Further announcements will follow about that. Hope you're all well, and best of luck for the last couple of weeks of training, Isabel On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 15:41, Isabel Nimmo wrote: > Dear Coxes, > > Bit of a mammoth e-mail, I'm afraid. > > Before I get started, could I ask any cox captains to pass on to their > junior coxes who are not on the cox mailing list, and club captains - I'm > aware not all of you have cox captains, so the same request. Many thanks! > > *Bumps Safety Briefings* > > These will be held early evening on Sunday the 3rd of March. Exact time > and venue will be confirmed soon. > > Most of you will have sat through at least one of these before, but for > the benefit of those competing for the first time, these are safety > briefings held for all participating coxes. Novice coxes (defined as those > who have not competed in a set of CUCBC run bumps before) must attend in > person, unless they receive permission to miss it from the CUCBC Safety > Officer. Senior coxes (those who have competed before) may be represented > by another senior cox, provided that representative undertakes to brief > them in turn before the start of racing. > > *Bumps Bank Parties* > > Following on from some discussions over the summer, it was suggested that > bank party (especially inexperienced ones) and some rowers might find it > useful to come along to the briefings to have a better understanding of > what coxes are likely to be doing, especially when clearing after a bump. > Come one, come all! I'm looking for a fairly big venue. I think it's > unlikely we'll fill it! > > This is very much not a requirement (I'm well aware that many of the > members of bank parties have been doing this a *lot* longer than I have), > but an invitation to anyone who'd like to come along. > > *Other Cox Related Stuff* > > Also following on from some discussions over the summer, it has been > suggested that CUCBC could do a little bit more to facilitate general cox > happiness. I'm afraid last term was eaten by novice stuff, and I've > basically been pretty unwell since early January, but I'm awake now and > better late than never. With that in mind, I'd like to suggest three > possible things: > > 1) very informal cox social. If popular, I suggest taking over a coffee > shop some evening or weekend. It'd be a chance to have a chat to other > coxes, complain about rowers, and whinge about how cold it is. > > 2) The safety briefing is purely about safety. I would not set myself up > as the font of all bumps knowledge, but I'm happy to call in some favours > and put some experienced coxes in the room after the safety briefing for a > Q&A/general chat about how to race bumps effectively (as well as safely). > > 3) Coxing Seminar - this had very mixed reviews last time, but I've had a > few messages recently asking us to run another one. > > With all of these, I'm not actually sure how popular they'd actually be. > Given that, I've stuck up a poll on the Coxes of Cambridge FB group (if you > don't know what this is, search for it - it will change your life when it > comes to finding subs!) Please feel free to express opinions there, or by > shooting me an e-mail if you'd rather. > > Hope you're all well, not too frozen, and best of luck for the rest of > training and racing this term. > > Isabel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From izzy at cucbc.org Thu Feb 21 19:32:34 2019 From: izzy at cucbc.org (Isabel Nimmo) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:32:34 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Lents Cox Meetings Message-ID: Dear Coxes and Captains, The Lent Bumps Safety Briefings will be held on Sunday the 3rd of March in the QB Lecture Theatre in Emmanuel college (if you go in the main entrance by the plodge, it's fairly well signposted). The Senior Cox briefing will be held 5-5:30pm. The Novice Cox briefing will be held 5:30-6:15pm. Novice coxes (defined as those who have not competed in a set of CUCBC run bumps before) must attend in person, unless they receive permission to miss it from the CUCBC Safety Officer. Senior coxes (those who have competed before) may be represented by another senior cox, provided that representative undertakes to brief them in turn before the start of racing. Members of bank parties and rowers who'd like a bit more insight into what their coxes might be doing are very welcome to attend either (or both!) briefings. *There will also be an informal (and very optional) Q&A with some senior college coxes on how to race bumps well (in addition to safely) immediately after at 6:15pm.* Best wishes, Isabel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From felicity at cucbc.org Thu Feb 21 22:44:33 2019 From: felicity at cucbc.org (Felicity Parker) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:44:33 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Fwd: Tree in river In-Reply-To: <02d501d4ca29$07c52ee0$174f8ca0$@srcf.net> References: <02d501d4ca29$07c52ee0$174f8ca0$@srcf.net> Message-ID: Dear all, We've had a report of a metre-long tree stump in the river near the white footbridge on Riverside (between Combined and Cantabs) on the Cantabs side. Please be vigilant in the morning. Best wishes, Felicity -- Felicity Parker CUCBC Honorary Secretary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conor at cucbc.org Tue Feb 26 01:07:54 2019 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:07:54 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Umpiring Lent Bumps 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <390E1AD2-FA00-4025-81DD-0CD4829C1B2D@cucbc.org> *Captains please forward this message to your clubs* Dear all, Thank you to everyone who has signed up to umpire so far. We?re currently a bit short on umpires for Wednesday W3 & M3, Thurs W2, M2 & W1, Fri W2, M2 and W1 and the last four divisions of Saturday. If you, or anyone you know who might be keen (with relevant experience), can make these divisions, we?d love to have you signup. As a reminder, everyone who umpires will be invited to a free umpires dinner the week after racing, and anyone who signs up in the next two days will count towards their colleges allocation of marshals (meaning fewer slots to fill, and less work finding people to fill them!). If you sign up after that please drop me an email or I might miss you off the rota. Thanks, Conor > On 15 Feb 2019, at 22:56, 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 Wednesday 27th 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 3rd March, 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 conor at cucbc.org Tue Feb 26 23:27:11 2019 From: conor at cucbc.org (Conor Burgess) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:27:11 +0000 Subject: [CUCBC Coxes] Large Branch in river In-Reply-To: <68c0e5c4-9065-49cb-b8ff-924701602861@Spark> References: <68c0e5c4-9065-49cb-b8ff-924701602861@Spark> Message-ID: <3612e43b-2bb4-476c-bd3b-b9f1ecc0ed61@Spark> Hi all, Just as one large section of tree is removed (thanks to everyone who helped!), another has arrived - there?s an ~ 3m long ranch near the riverside footbridge. Please keep your eyes peeled in the morning. 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