The Team Room · Non-Negotiable

Safety on our water

These are the non-negotiable traffic patterns for every boat at CIR. Every coxswain knows them by heart, and every rower needs to know them too: you never know when you will be the bow of a blind boat, or the guest or fill-in coxswain.

The Traffic Pattern

Eastchester Bay & the Hutchinson · tap the map for full screen

Aerial traffic pattern map: green travel lines, red no-travel channel through the middle of the bay, red rock markers, orange drills-only arcs, numbered staging points
Travel pattern Never travel: boating channel Drills only, no through travel Home: the boathouse Rocks Green buoys 1Staging & meeting points
1The Gate
2Around the corner / The Point
3Corner at the end of the rifle range shoreline
4Corner of the swimming pool
5The Pier
6First red buoy
7End of Orchard Beach
8High Island
9The Rip Tide

The red line is the most important mark on this map

The red line is the general boating channel: powerboats, fishing boats, jet skis, everything with an engine and a wake. We never row on it. Every year, somewhere in this sport, rowers are seriously injured or worse after being struck by boats.

There are no excuses. Do not travel in the general boat traffic area.

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When It's Dark

Lights on, always

When it is dark, lights are how everyone on the water sees everyone else. Bow lights: green and red. Stern light: white. Every shell, every launch, every time it's dark.

Hi-Viz Season

Be impossible to miss

A high-visibility outer layer is mandatory at practice from Monday, September 21 for U16 and from Monday, October 19 for U17 and U19. No exceptions. About $20 solves it: details on the Parents page.

Dress for the Water

The water is always 15 degrees ahead of you

When it's hot

A hat. Water, and more water than you think. Cotton is your friend: it breathes and it cools.

When it's cold

Layers. Wool and polyester, which keep working when they're wet. Dress for 15 degrees colder than when you left the house, and have a dry layer waiting for when you come off the water.

The rest of the safety chain

Athlete-safety certification and reporting live on the SafeSport page; the waiver, medical release, and policies live on the Documents page.

SafeSport Documents