This year we have a bumper raffle with super prizes and we need your help to sell tickets. Funds raised will go toward expanding the fleet. We are asking you to commit to selling FIVE or TEN tickets to your family and friends. If you can help then please email Ainsley ([email protected]) to coordinate ticket collection. Ainsley will also attach a list of the confirmed prizes when you collect your tickets to sell.
The raffle will be drawn at the club on Christmas eve.
Many thanks, the fundraising committee
Gas works on Tuesday 2 December
There will be some remedial gas works at the boathouse on Tuesday 2 December so you may see workmen around.
The gas will be turned
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off for a short time while the pipes are reconnected at the end of the works.
Boathouse Warming Purchases
Thank you to everyone who purchased items on the Boathouse Warming Gift List. We are busy organising the purchase of these items and you will find that the crockery and serving bowls and platters are already at the boathouse (and have been used for recent club events!).
RRC has received a generous donation of a coffee machine from Thalia (thanks Thalia!) and we hope that you are enjoying coffee on the terrace after Sunday morning training. For those that made a donation to purchase a coffee machine, we would like to redirect your donation to another item on the list as not all items were purchased by members. Be assured that your donation will still go towards an item that was on the list that helps set up the boathouse for your use.
The sound system for the gym was fully funded by members and will be purchased in the next few weeks to help make those ergos more enjoyable!
Women's Changerooms
We have had an inquiry about the MLC girls using the RRC changeroom and whether this is the arrangement with MLC.
We have agreed with MLC that the Senior girls will use the RRC changeroom which means that approximately 40 girls will be using it. Any MLC girl may use the toilets in the RRC changeroom as at times there may be large queues in the MLC changeroom with the number of junior girls compared to the number of toilets.
Venue Hires
A quick update on venue hires as we are starting to get lots of bookings.
We have appointed 5 caterers to use the RRC Boathouse as a venue for bookings. You can see information relating to these on the Venues page of the website. These caterers manage all aspects of a venue hire for us, giving us a professional image.
All caterers have access to the boathouse for the purpose of showing potential clients the venue and also for setting up and holding functions. Mainly clients will visit during the day when most rowers are not around, but if you do see people who are clearly looking at the boathouse as a venue, please just let them continue – the caterers know everything they need to in order to sell the venue.
We are putting all our bookings onto the calendar on the blog so that you know when the boathouse will be booked. Venue hires are a major fundraiser for us – potentially worth a new boat a year – so please be considerate when a venue hire is in progress.
During a venue hire:
– You can still access the changerooms and gym as normal via the back stairs.
– You can open the wall between the gym and classroom if the classroom is not being used for the function but please ensure that all the blinds in the classroom are down.
– Please keep the changeroom, gym and internal boat bay doors shut to ensure security of your and the club’s possessions.
Caterers will have access to set up for a function from 2 hours before the start time. Once they start setting up, please do not enter function areas.
Caterers will close up after a function. However, rowers should close up the boat bays as usual and leave via the rear doors.
Thanks for you help in making the most of our fundraising opportunity from venue hires.
Access, Security and other Boathouse Information
Not surprisingly, we have been getting some questions about how our new boathouse operates so here is some information to help everyone along. It is not complete as we are yet to have handover of some functions / items in the building. When we do have all the handover complete, we will organise a time to walk members through the building so you get to know first-hand how to operate certain things.
ACCESS
Members can apply for access fobs using the form contained in the access policy on the website. Member fobs give you access into the boathouse through the rear door and also the downstairs front door. They also provide access to the gym and the hall areas inside the boathouse.
When you are down for training or any other everyday matter, please use the rear stairs to access the first floor. This will help us reduce wear and tear on the carpeted hall area and ensure that you do not mistakenly walk into a private function in the hall!
Therefore member fobs do not open the door at the top of the front stairs – think of the front door and stairs now as the ‘function’ entry to the boathouse and the rear door and stairs as the rowing and training entry to the building. For those who have been members for a few years you will recall that this was the arrangement for many years. It helps us keep the front entry stairs and the hall clean.
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Sunday post-row BYO event
We will be giving up our BYO permit on 5 November so we thought it appropriate to celebrate by using it and inviting everyone to BYO drinks and also something to put on the
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BBQ this Sunday (26 October) after training at 12.30pm.
It will also give us the chance to congratulate those people who rowed so well at World Masters, Head of Goulburn and Head of the Charles.
We would love to see everyone one there whether you are training or not.
We are giving up our BYO permit so that our panel of caterers can use their licenses for hall hires at the boathouse. As a result RRC will be UNLICENSED so please ensure that you do not bring drinks into the boathouse after 5 November.
We will be using temporary licenses and working with our caterers to put on monthly drinks and our social events. More to come……
Airconditioning – IMPORTANT!
Please do NOT use the airconditioning at the boathouse yet. It has not been properly set up and is therefore not working correctly.
Please just open up all the doors and put on the fans for now. We will let you know when the airconditioning has been set up properly and it can be used.
We are following up with the builder as this was meant to be done last week, but the correct person did not turn up to do it. Apologies and thanks for your patience.
Use of Boatshed Monday 13 October
For those planning to head down to the club on Monday 13 October, please be aware of the following events:
10am – 3pm Lloyd Group (our builders) are holding a staff meeting in the main hall. The main hall and terrace areas are reserved for Lloyd Group during these times and we ask that members do not disturb them.
7pm – 9pm the Head of School Girls Committee is meeting in the MLC classroom. If you are using the gym, please ensure that the wall is shut. Again, please do not disturb this meeting.
While external parties are using the boathouse rowers always have access to the changerooms and the gym.
Thanks for your consideration for these events.
Building handover update
We have been waiting for the fire service main to be connected before the builders can hand over the boathouse to RRC. While the boathouse looks finished, the builders are still rectifying defects, a usual end of project process.
Member access to the boathouse remains as only the boat bays and changerooms until handover. The boathouse may look completed, but it is still under the builders insurance and responsibility, not RRC’s. It also does not have a functioning fire service, hence our limited access.
SE Water has now confirmed that they will do the mains tapping next week and Lloyd Group have confirmed that they will have completed all works by Wednesday 1 October. The building surveyor will have all documentation ready on Wednesday to complete the handover to RRC.
RRC will then be able to start handing out fobs to those who have applied for them. Don’t worry if you don’t have a fob, you can still apply for one or just rely on other members of the squads to open up.