Rowing on and Summer Eights 2022: river restriction notice
Published 5 May 2022
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When
Saturday 21 May 2022, from 1pm to 5:30pm.
Sunday 22 May 2022, from 1pm to 5:30pm.
Wednesday 25 May to Friday 27 May 2022, from 10am to 7pm.
Saturday 28 May 2022, from 9am to 7pm.
Where
Iffley reach, Iffley Lock to Folly Bridge.
Details
All those in charge of boats must pay attention to advice offered by official regatta marshals, in order to give racing boats a fair and clear passage particularly when they are rowing to the start area.
Racing will be held at half hourly intervals. Whilst racing is in progress, the marshals may request boaters to moor and wait, for a period of no longer than 15 minutes until the current race has finished, before proceeding up or downstream through the course.
Regatta boards will mark the upstream and downstream extent of the course.
Racing will start at 10am and will be over by 7pm, except on Saturday 28 May 2022, when an earlier start time is in place.
Master of all boats should maintain a safe speed and lookout between Iffley Lock and Folly Bridge.
Mooring is prohibited between Iffley Lock and Longbridges on the west, towpath side of the river from 11am on 21 May 2022 until 7pm on Saturday 28 May 2022.
All boats must be navigated in accordance with any instructions given from Environment Agency control points or patrol launches.
Those in charge of boats should be aware that they are responsible for avoiding collision and should use all available means appropriate to the circumstances and conditions to decide if there is a risk of immediate danger and avoid it.
Bathing is not allowed in the river on the course during the hours of racing.
Byelaws
Nothing contained in these directions shall supersede those parts of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 and the UK Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 as may be relevant. Particular attention should be paid to byelaws 24-42 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993, Steering Sailing and Speed.
And Notice is hereby given, that it is provided by Byelaw 52 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 that:
The master of any vessel shall except in an emergency not pass any boat-race regatta public procession or gathering for the launch of a vessel or any other event or function which may cause a crowd to assemble on or by the river nor station his vessel thereon in such a manner as would risk obstructing impeding or interfering with such boat-race regatta procession launching event or function or endangering the safety of persons assembling on the river or preventing or interfering with the maintenance of order thereon.
The maximum penalty for breach of the Byelaws is £1,000.
Read our Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993