The 2023 Phantom Open Meeting will be held on Saturday 1st April. Four 45-minute races are scheduled for the event, with two results to count. A competitors’ briefing will be held at 10:30, the first start will not be before 10:55. The NoR is avaialbe here and sailing instructions here. Entry is through online Registration…
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Weed cutting boats will be operating on our lake from Wednesday 6 July until Friday 8 July. On these days, the lake will be CLOSED to ALL activity from 07:30am, to 16:30pm to allow the cutters to operate safely. A Black Flag will be flown to indicate that cutting operations are active and the lake…
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Step 4 –19 July 2021 onwards The government restrictions have been lifted form 19 July in a transition to just personal responsibility. The key things for us are that social distancing and face masks will no longer be mandatory and indoor group limits removed. But Covid has not gone away; not everyone has been offered…
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Bowmoor Open Water Swimming Access – Important for all members to read and understand. During the Covid pandemic, we have successfully run a programme of Club activity that has separated open water swimming from sailing and windsurfing activity through use of a booking system. The booking system was a requirement to meet our Covid-secure responsibilities. …
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The following rules and guidance have been detailed by the Government and are effective from 17 May 2021. The overarching guidelines for Govt guidance that come into are ‘Hands. Face. Space’: Hands – wash your hands regularly and for 20 seconds. Face – wear a face covering in indoor settings where social distancing may be difficult, and…
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Outdoor Sport facilities are permitted to open in accordance with Step One limitations. This means we can go Sailing (including racing), swimming and paddling (canoe and SUP) but within the measures detailed below. We are not able to re-start formal RYA training at this stage. It will be possible to run coaching for groups…
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The Club is CLOSED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT in response to the national lockdown. With infection rates still soaring and a clammer for a lockdown this national step had an inevitability about it. Official detail is still scarce. While the brief government announcement www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home refers to local individual exercise, parallels have been widely drawn with Lockdown…
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The following rules and guidance have been detailed by the Government and are effective from 31st December. The overarching guidelines for Govt guidance that come into are ‘Hands. Face. Space’: Hands – wash your hands regularly and for 20 seconds. Face – wear a face covering in indoor settings where social distancing may be…
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From Boxing Day onwards, the local Tiers are: Tier 4 – Oxfordshire and Berkshire Tier 3 – Swindon Borough, Gloucestershire and Bristol Tier 2- Herefordshire and Wiltshire. Can we sail, swim or paddle? Yes. Govt and RYA guidance says we can still have recreational and self-organised sport at Tier 3 but only recreational at 4.…
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The following rules and guidance have been detailed by the Government and are effective from 2 December. The overarching guidelines for Govt guidance that come into are ‘Hands. Face. Space’: hands – wash your hands regularly and for 20 seconds. face – wear a face covering in indoor settings where social distancing may be…
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