<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><b class="">Captains - please ensure this message reaches all coxes that may not be on the coxes mailing list and are due to compete in next weeks Bumps races.</b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Dear college coxes (apologies to everyone else on these lists...),</span></p><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">The cox safety briefings for May Bumps will take place on Sunday 12th June. </b>We are hoping that these will take place in person - we hope to confirm this, as well as the location of the briefings soon). <b class="">The Senior briefing will be held at 19:30, and the Novice briefing will be held at 20:00</b> (and should be done by 20:40).</font></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Novice coxes (defined as those who have not competed <b class="">as a cox</b> in a set of CUCBC* run bumps before) must attend in person, unless they receive prior permission to miss it from the CUCBC Safety Officer.</span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Senior coxes (those who have competed before) may be represented by another <b class="">senior </b>cox, provided that representative signs in and undertakes to brief them in turn before the start of racing.</span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Bank party, rowers, coaches - you're all very welcome to come along too. Many of you have been doing this far longer than I, but if you're new to bumps and want an idea of what your cox is (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">or maybe should...</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">) be doing, feel free to join in!</span></p><div class="">Attendance at the briefings will be taken: <b class="">The named cox, or a senior cox attending the briefing on behalf of another senior cox, must sign-in for each competing crew - f</b><b class="">ailure to do so may result in crews being unable to race next week. </b>If you are required to attend a briefing and know that you will not be able to make the allocated times, please get in touch with us ASAP.</div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Best wishes,</span></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Isabel and Luke</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">* CUCBC rules are somewhat different to CRA, Torpids, Eights and Oxford town bumps, so I'm afraid they don't count.</i></span></p></div></div></body></html>