http://www.ourcs.org.uk A RSS feed of the OURCs name and shame forum en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:15:07 +0100 webmaster@ourcs.org.uk Obviously somebody at LMH cant tell the time, as I spotted their 8 at haystacks at 12.00 sunday. Which given last weeks e-mail, explicitly pointing out no rowing this Sunday morning between 8-13.00 I found a little suprising Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:34:23 +0000 Its a bit difficult to name and shame because I dont know who Im shaming, but our coach tells me that a friend of his was nearly run over on the tow path after dark by a bank rider with no bike lights... Please could people remember to put lights on bikes as well as boats? Thanks very much! Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:12:04 +0000 Thankfully most people were sensible about the fog this morning.However...I was slightly upset to see Univ (apologies if this wasnt Univ, it was difficult to see!) deciding to boat with next to no visibility (there was a wall of fog at the end of the greenbank!)They only stopped because I told them not to.This is basic common sense - if you can barely see your hand in front of your face, its too foggy! Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:27:11 +0000 Morning all, Guys, can all Captains and those of you who are coaches make sure that your coxes & crews are fully prepared before they push off for an outing? This morning I had to rescue a mens novice crew boating from the island whose coach had left them to go to the county side. They had pushed off fully and not noticed that the ENTIRE crews blades were facing the wrong way (i.e. bow side blades in stroke gates and vice versa). I was trying to help my own crew out and shouldnt have to instruct other colleges! Obviously this would not lead to a productive outing and the cox was novice and had basically been left to it. Normally this may be amusing, but with so much carnage on the river these mornings, it could have got the crew into difficulty. I wont mention the college of the crew involved, except that they boat from LMH/Trinity/Linacre and their blade colour is the Danish flag! Rant over - cheers! Chris (Linacre) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:55:28 +0100 I was disappointed to see at least 2 crews out on the river this morning despite heavy fog. At 7am boat house island was hardly visible from the towpath at which point a couple of crews were getting boats onto the water, then when I was returning at 8, at which point the bank opposite Longbridges was still not visible, St Johns and Brasenose were out on the river. Admittedly visibility at the head had improved to a dubious 100m-ish but both novice crews were without lights, which I think is downright dangerous considering the very poor visibility exiting the gut. If everyone down at the river this morning had decided to boat then there almost certainly would have been collisions, especially with the mix of novice and experienced crews and possibly some novice coxes thrown into the mix too.I sat through the coxing meeting on Monday with our newbies and I dont seem to remember fog being mentioned at all, there was certainly no suggestion of any useful points of reference to judge visibility or any extra safety precautions you should take such as putting lights on the boat to increase your visibility. Maybe this is something that can be included in the meeting on Tuesday? Matt C Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:36:32 +0100 Just a reminder to all that OURCs rules about Wednesday after 7 pm ARE still in force, despite several college boats & scullers thinking otherwise last night. And would the captain/cox of the college 8+ that had a meeting with the Academicals 4- at 19.20 last night, please send me a copy of the incident report - as it was my boat that was damaged. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:50:40 +0100 My apologies to the worcester crew who we passed through the gut whilst you were doing a race piece, and forced you to take a wider route, let me explain!  An LMH crew had blocked the entrance to the gut whilst spinning at longbridges, so after easying and waiting for them to move off, we went through the gut, however one of our stroke siders wasnt having that good a morning and missed the first 2 strokes, hence our poor angle into the gut which forced us into a poor position without giving the rudder time to respond (looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow to quote ford prefect of HG2G) despite my best efforts to turn us by dropping out people! once again, i am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you!! Thu, 17 May 2007 12:06:22 +0100 Rule 11.2: Crews should not obstruct the Gut unnecessarily either by easying or proceeding slower than normal full crew paddling allows. One of the Catz womens VIII crews was going through the Gut downstream in sixes this morning, and I would say at a pace slower than "normal full crew paddling".  We couldnt overtake because the crew was too far away from the bank for us to do that safely (just to clarify: I would have asked the Catz crew if we could do this, as per OURCS rules...). If we had done so, we would have been, in my opinion, too far onto the other side of the river, at the risk of crashing into oncoming crews. Im not sure what the rules are on undertaking through the gut--I think perhaps a no-no--but we couldnt have fitted between Catz and the bank, either. The moral of the story is: keep tucked in round the gut (please). Just out of interest, is "normal full crew paddling" objective or subjective, i.e. is there some kind of objective standard of speed, or does it refer to the speed at which the particular crew rows when rowing with the full crew? Mon, 14 May 2007 10:49:02 +0100 Someone buy Anna Tochlin a cox box! Hildas W2 have seen her on the river shouting her lungs out everytime were out - dont be so mean Annes! Tue, 08 May 2007 23:08:02 +0100 Dont do it. It only makes things messy. Which in turn causes tired and sarcastic remarks to be written on this board. See you tomorrow morning... Thu, 03 May 2007 09:20:47 +0100