as a courtesy to whoever is on captains duty the week after you, could I ask duty captains on a Saturday to make contact with someone from the following Saturday's team to give them a heads up that they're on duty. We all have a lot more going on in our lives than our Saturday Captains duty (thankfully!) so prompting someone from the team for the following Saturday will alert them of their duty and give them a chance to organise a replacement if or when they're unable to fulfil their slot. 

Hopefully this will make the duty rota work more smoothly 

If it's the case that you have no phone number for any of the 3 people on duty for the week after you, then give one of the committee members a shout please

Thanks,

Colin

I would also like to mention that in addition to captains and strokes we would like the help of other rowers who could help with managing newcomers off the water (making sure they wear lifejackets / buoyancy aids correctly for example) and launching / recovering boats as well as taking the third thwart as experienced rower in the boat. Thanks!

Colin

I should have mentioned earlier, that this session is also open to people who have already done captains training before. The last time I ran it people were surprised by how much content there was to take in, and we will all take it in at different levels. Despite everyone being at different levels of knowledge or training, everyone learned stuff. So all are welcome. 

I have confirmed with Meitheal Mara that we have sufficient numbers and we're going ahead. 

Thanks,

Colin

We were approached by Cork Sports Partnership to participate in their outdoor sports campaign from the 15^th to the 23^rd of August. The Committee have decided that it would be great to be a part of Outdoors Week 2026 and that we would have a normal Saturday morning row/public row, but limit it to the people who book in through CSP as our public rowers for the day. (Booking would be organised by CSP and we would cap participation at a certain number, we would advertise our Saturday row as members only that day on the Forum). This year we will only participate on 15 August.

In order to have enough Captains and Strokes present on the day to provide full or partial spins for participants, we are just trying to get an idea of who might be around that day so we can set an appropriate cap/limit on the number who might book in for the row that day through CSP.

Please respond here if you are around that day and able to help out.  Thanks so much!

Stacy

We will need to be prompt and well ready to depart on time from Crosses green. 

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