1. If you plan to participate in Sunday morning seat racing please commit via email and include your name, age category, lwt or hvy, preferred side and the boat you are racing to for.
boats that are up for grabs: women's 8+, men's 8+.
**Due to the number of athletes and time constraints seat racing will only be for one of the 8's (This time around).
ie: Dave Dundas, C, hvy, starboard or port, mens 8+.
-a Thank you to John Metris and Charles Lecellier, Chris Rouse and Alex Awesome for already completing the task.
-a process and procedure for seat racing will be posted this evening for informational and transparency purposes.
2. Sunday morning rowers, we will be starting seat racing at 700 am and as such you will be on the course with other fast moving shells. Please take note of this for during certain intervals you will be prevented from entering the 750m course (bull nose to seawall). Once a race has left you may procede down the rest of the thousand metres.
**All members of masters rowing are encouraged to come down during 7-1030am and cheer the seat racers on**
Seat Racing – Process and Procedure.
Meeting time is 7am followed by a review of this process and procedure. There will be very limited time for Q and A.
Please be aware of the following:
>Races are 3x750m (water permitting) but may be reduced to 500m at the umpire’s discretion.
>A rate cap of 22spm is assigned and will be monitored by the umpires.
>You will have 5 strokes to establish a stroke rate of 22.
>Crews found to be racing above 22spm for longer than 5 strokes will immediately be disqualified from racing.
>Times between races will be minimal (approx 6min).
>Coaching staff will not be coaching rowers rather they will be acting in an umpire capacity similar to what you will encounter at upcoming races.
>Umpires will provide safety, starting procedures and finish line commands.
>Starting and racing procedures will loosely follow RCA/ROWBC standards. Please see “start commands” below.
>All rowers should remain quiet while warming up and/or waiting for the start of their trial.
>As with all rowing races an athlete will have the opportunity to raise their arm post race to signal that they believe their race had been negatively impacted (equipment breakage, avoiding collision, collision, or capsizing). Umpires will make a decision based on the situation and may decide to re-run the race.
Start commands:
>crews will be brought up to the start line and aligned by the umpire
>bow persons will be asked if they have a course
>once alignment is established the umpire will call the start
>the call will be “ready, ready” a pause, “set” a pause, then “go”.
>15 second rule will be utilized in case equipment failure.
Additional information:
Results:
Results will not be immediately available following seat racing but will be calculated ASAP and results will be posted on the bulletin board.
Times will be taken during each race. The rower with the lowest total overall time will be declared the victor. Rowers will then be seeded by descending order into the 8+.
If a tie comes about, coaches will then use subjective criteria to finish crew selection(s). Criteria as follows: Technical ability, coach-ability, commitment, and attitude.
Addressing the additional factors of Masters rowing in order to maintain fairness:
A point system will be utilized to take into account the following factors:
-Age
-Weight
-Rowing on opposite side
*Each awarded point represents 1 second and will be subtracted off the rower’s total seat racing time.
Eg. Rower A is 35yrs old, heavyweight and rows starboard
Rower B is 35yrs old, lightweight and rows starboard
If competing against each other and rower A wins, rower B will save 1 second off his/her total time due to being lightweight.
For Review
AA 21 - 26 years
A 27 - 35 years
B 36 - 42 years
C 43 - 49 years
D 50 - 54 years
Participants:
WomenMen
Jen Williams – Port, hvy, B Chris Rouse – Port, hvy, C
Shelly Roth - Star, lwt, C John Metras – Port, hvy, C
Sabina Gleeson – Star, hvy, BPierre V (bubbles) – Star/Port lwt, B
