Rigger store use

 

As of the 11/11/2001, following the rationalisation of the rigger store and the production of a speadsheet of its contents, please note that only club coaches appointed by the captain OR PERSONS WITH HIS DIRECT CONSENT may take out or put in riggers to the rigger store. 

Please note that this store now contains only fours, quads, eights and octuple riggers.  A spreadsheet of the locations of all these has been made to enable coaches to find them quickly.  The intention is that all coaches are to amend the speadsheet as they use the store on the paper copy IN THE STORE. 

 

ALL PAIR AND DOUBLE RIGGERS ARE NOW ELSEWHERE, NORMALLY BY THE BOAT on the rack at the level of the boat but IN AS SAFE A LOCATION AS POSSIBLE not TO DAMAGE ON USING THE BOAT – AND - LABELLED.  This may change if we can find a suitable location to store such riggers but it was necessary to clear the store to be able to use it AT ALL!

ALL coaches must undertake only put in properly packed, properly labelled riggers [in accordance with the cjdg rigger [trailer] protocol.  THIS MEANS THE NAME IN SIX PLACES – THREE EITHER SIDE [see trailer protocol on this site].

The key of the rigger store should no longer be accessible to other than the designated coaches. So, if you want to re-rig a boat you must make arrangements with one of the coaches in good time.

If you re-rig a pair as a double or vice versa, your continued use of that pair depends on you properly packing and storing away the riggers in accordance with the protocol.  This must be under the supervision of your coaches.

Purchase , [£1.60, for pen and tape] and use adequate tape to tape up riggers.  Either 2" brown parcel tape or 'duct' tape.  1" insulation tape is not acceptable.

Like riggers should be securely taped with like - stroke side to stroke side, bow side to bow side. 

BACK STAYS that are long GET SWUNG ROUND fit alongside the LONG STAY. 

If riggers from a four are bundled, gates need to face each other, so long and short stays of the rigger are together. This allows for storage in less space.

Riggers must be CLEARLY LABELLED ON THE FACE OF BOTH AREAS OF THE TAPE  and on both sides of the bundle [i.e. in FOUR (!) places]  CLEARLY LABELLED WITH THE NAME OF THE BOAT READILY VISIBLE WHEN STORED and, only if it can be done safely, the riggers can be hung from the boat rack of the boat to which they belong ON THE "OTHER" SIDE OF RACK TO THAT THE BOAT IS ON. I.E. NEAR THE WALL in the boat house or in between uprights on the scaffolding of the external racks.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST RIGGERS END UP in AISLES ON THE FLOOR OF THE BOATHOUSE