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Melbourne Head Regatta

  • Hosted By: Upper Yarra Rowing Club

The Melbourne Head 

Information for Coxswains

  Course
a) Melbourne Head
The course will run for 4.1 km from just downstream of the big bend to finish opposite MUBC.  The river will be closed to all but competing crews and rescue boats. The normal river traffic pattern will apply, with the racing lane being on the northern side of the river, and a single file access lane from the finish, past the sheds to the start on the southern side. These two lanes will be divided by a line of orange buoys. This line must not be crossed at any time.
Crews boating from the City will leave the staging in class order and will be expected to sort themselves into start (numerical) order before going upstream of Herring Island, with crews taking a normal anti clockwise course around the island. Once in order, crews will proceed upstream to turn beyond the Grange Road Bridge, at the far end of the line of buoys. Crews boating from Wesley and Powerhouse will need to join into the upstream line of traffic in correct starting order. Crews boating from upstream of Grange Road will need to join the procession to the start, in numerical order, as crews turn to face downstream for approaching the start. Please be sure to get your boat into numerical  order as you move toward the start..

b) Junior Head
The Junior Head course runs from the Caroline Street jetty to finish opposite MUBC. Marshalling for this event will be done between Herring Island and the Cremorne railway Bridge.

2) Registration and Bow Numbers

Clubs  must collect an Information Pack and a Bow Number from MUBC at least 75 minutes before the published start time for their class.

Bow numbers and Information Packs, will be available from MUBC between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Friday 18th and from 7:30 am on Saturday 19th


3) Boat Movement to the start

The staging at Princes Bridge will be divided into 4 zones during times of heavy traffic:

Opposite Richmond and Melbourne -  crews coming in
Opposite Mercantile and Melbourne Grammar-  crews going out
Opposite Banks and Yarra Yarra – crews coming in

Opposite MUBC – crews going out

Crews must be in the marshalling area upstream of Grange Road Bridge (or the Cremorne Railway Bridge for the Junior Head) 10 minutes before the start time for their class, so they will need to leave the city boatsheds 45 ( 30 minutes for Junior Head)  minutes before their start time. The access lane from the city to the start will mostly be single file, so crews should avoid stopping unless necessary for safety reasons. Use the southern arches of all the bridges INCLUDING THE CREMORNE RAILWAY BRIDGE

Crews boating from the City will leave the staging in class order and will be expected to sort themselves into start (numerical) order before going upstream of Herring Island, with crews taking a normal anti clockwise course around the island. Once in order, crews will proceed upstream to turn beyond the Grange Road Bridge, at the far end of the line of buoys. Crews boating from Wesley and Powerhouse will need to join into the upstream line of traffic in correct starting order. Crews boating from upstream of Grange Road will need to join the procession to the start, in numerical order, as crews turn to face downstream to approach the start. Please be sure that your boat is in correct numerical order as you move toward the start.

Please follow any instructions given by officials who will be assisting crews to sort themselves into numerical order.  Crews must be ready to move immediately, once the instruction to move into the starting area is given.

4) Racing

Start
Crews will be directed into the Start in bow number order. Crews from upstream and downstream will be merged by the marshal.

Once in start order, crews will move slowly downstream in order. It will probably be necessary to stop and wait a few times. Crews will be called by bow number and instructed to GO! Timing will start when the crew crosses the buoyed start line, approximately 50 meters downstream .

Course

The racing lane is on the northern half of the river, and crews should keep the orange marker buoys to their stroke side, maintaining normal traffic patterns.

Passing

For safety and good sportsmanship, we require crews which are being overtaken to yield the centre of the river to the faster crew.

Note: For the purposes of this event a crew is “being overtaken” if a faster crew has its bow ball within a length of the stern of the slower crew. If this occurs, the crew being overtaken must “yield” which means moving towards the northern bank and allowing the faster crew to pass in the centre of the river.

Finish

Once over the finish line, crews must keep rowing before turning, and allow other crews plenty of room. Returning to the sheds is via the single file access lane, using the southern arch of Prince’s Bridge.

 Crews which wish to return to upstream boatsheds may do so while the event is in progress, using the access lane, and following instructions of the marshals, particularly while negotiating the marshalling areas.  You must still travel around the southern side of the island.

Orange Buoy Line
Keep the Orange Buoy line on your stroke side at all times. The line is not to be crossed at any stage, whether racing or rowing upstream. A 10 second penalty applies if a crew’s boat hull crosses the line while racing. Crews crossing the line while rowing upstream will be eliminated.

 A 20 second penalty applies to a crew which fails to yield, and thereby hinders another competitor.

 Officials
Officials will be in place along the course, to observe and give appropriate instructions. Crews must obey these instructions, or be eliminated.
5) Results

Provisional Results will be posted on the Regatta Masters Reporting Services and Regattacentral websites in real time and official results will be published as soon as possible after the event.
Provisional results will be published live on the Regatta Central app, available for iphones and Androids.



The Melbourne Head Mobile App
We have our own app so you can get live results during the regatta. These results are net of any handicaps, while those on the Regattacentral Results page show both elapsed and net times.


If you are on an iPhone or Android device and go to the page you’ll automatically be redirected to the appropriate app store

 

Here’s the URL:  http://regattaurl.com/I1Hpiu




Handicaps
Here are handicaps, in seconds for appropriate events. (This is not the starting order)

 

Event Description Team (Short Name) Boat ID Avg Age Handicap seconds Stroke 
6 Mens Masters Eight Melbourne Argonauts 56 52 0 S. Niemann
6 Mens Masters Eight Melbourne 9 53 0 M. Harrison
6 Mens Masters Eight Melbourne Uni 463 59 20 P. Antonie
6 Mens Masters Eight Melbourne Uni 308 70 109 R. Parker
6 Mens Masters Eight Mercantile 53 60 44 J. Thompson
6 Mens Masters Eight Yarra Yarra 106 60 44 A. Watson
6 Mens Masters Eight Yarra Yarra 110 53 0 R. Gebert
6 Mens Masters Eight Yarra Yarra 112 50 0 S. Wilson
             
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Carrum 338 53 31 D. O'Brien
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Essendon 11 55 51 B. Nugent
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Essendon 6 59 51 R. White
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull MUBC late 65 95 Freguson
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Hawthorn 273 42 0 D. Crisp
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Latrobe University 392 51 31 D. Henry
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Melbourne 198 66 95 R. Young
7 Mens Masters Quad Scull Yarra Yarra 266 54 31 M. McCombe
             
13 Mixed Eight Cardinal 267 52 35 J. Russell
13 Mixed Eight Caulfield Grammarians 374 51 35 V. Dowell
13 Mixed Eight Melbourne 200 30 0 R. Johnston
13 Mixed Eight Melbourne 201 63 55 A. Driver
             
16 Womens Masters Coxless Quad Carrum 261 55 62 M. Hunter
16 Womens Masters Coxless Quad Essendon 389 31 0 N. Campani
16 Womens Masters Coxless Quad Melbourne Uni 144 56 62 J. Bingham
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Footscray 373 44 53 M. Rice
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Hawthorn 394 54 74 K. Low
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Hawthorn 416 49 53 M. Fawcett
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Latrobe University 335 58 98 M. Burrell
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Latrobe University 410 38 37 N. McAllen
16 Womens Masters Coxed Quad Melbourne 210 52 74 S. McDonald
             
17 Womens Masters Coxed Four Barwon 317 60 25 J. Keats
17 Womens Masters Coxed Four Mercantile 55 55 0 C. Walton
             
33 Womens Masters Eight Alan Mitchell 66 56 42 J. Williams
33 Womens Masters Eight Albert Pk - Sth Melbourne 58 51 19 R. Lockyer
33 Womens Masters Eight Essendon 69 52 19 L. Gandolfo
33 Womens Masters Eight Melbourne 21 43 0 H. Purdy
33 Womens Masters Eight Melbourne Uni 145 51 19 J. Robinson
33 Womens Masters Eight Yarra Yarra 104 54 19 J. Plummer
             
34 Mens Masters Coxed Four Bairnsdale 260 50 0 C. Hocking
34 Mens Masters Coxed Four Power House 428 52 0 D. Holman
34 Mens Masters Coxed Four Richmond 382 61 22 P. Zwar
34 Mens Masters Coxed Four Yarra Yarra 265 51 0 H. Cator
34 Mens Masters Coxless Four Alan Mitchell 391 60 22 R. Purdue
             
42 Mens Masters Double Corio Bay 67 62 82 G. Smith
42 Mens Masters Double Essendon 330 56 56 R. Saul
42 Mens Masters Double Lea 483 56 56 R. Henderson
42 Mens Masters Double Melbourne 214 64 82 D. McManamny
42 Mens Masters Double Melbourne 215 63 82 J. Dollisson
42 Mens Masters Double Mercantile 54 52 34 D. Mackinnon
42 Mens Masters Double Power House 222 42 0 S. O'Connor-Smith
42 Mens Masters Double Power House 278 52 34 B. Jones
             
43 Mens Masters Pair Alan Mitchell 65 57 62 N. Oke
43 Mens Masters Pair Melbourne 216 55 62 R. Jones
43 Mens Masters Pair Power House 429 31 0 N. Hatjiandreou
             
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Cascadilla 4 58 64 T. Willsallen
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Caulfield Grammarians 377 56 64 R. Anderson
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Caulfield Grammarians 397 62 92 M. Dakic
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Essendon 12 55 64 B. Nugent
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Essendon 430 49 20 D. McNeill
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Melbourne Uni 432 58 64 S. Marshall
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Melbourne Uni 459 51 20 M. Cornwell
45 Mens Masters Single Scull RSV 252 30 0 A. Randall
45 Mens Masters Single Scull Yarra Yarra 111 57 64 C. Rawson
             
46 Womens Masters Double Scull Caulfield Grammarians 378 53 38 V. Dowell
46 Womens Masters Double Scull Latrobe University 411 38 0 N. McAllen
46 Womens Masters Double Scull Melbourne 217 53 38 K. Taylor
46 Womens Masters Double Scull Melbourne Uni 464 43 17 F. Milne
             
50 Womens Masters Single Scull Hawthorn 395 61 100 J. Bant
50 Womens Masters Single Scull Hawthorn 408 51 41 S. Andrews
50 Womens Masters Single Scull Power House 218 53 41 P. Carroll
50 Womens Masters Single Scull Richmond 10 49 18 C. Manning
50 Womens Masters Single Scull RSV 247 42 0 C. Larritt
50 Womens Masters Single Scull RSV 249 51 41 M. Wilson
50 Womens Masters Single Scull Yarra Yarra 356 38 0 K. Rusnak
51 Parent& Child 2X Merc/Nagambie 490 83 155 P Day
51 Parent & Child 2x Corio Bay 361 31 0 M. Dingle
51 Parent & Child 2x Melbourne Uni 253 39 235 L. Nicholson Marshall
51 Parent & Child 2x Melbourne Uni 254 48 425 J. Dutton
51 Parent & Child 2x Melbourne Uni 460 35 155 M. Cornwell
51 Parent & Child 2x Yarra Yarra 264 41 155 M. Yann





New Event

We are delighted to announce the addition of event 51, the Parent and Child Double Scull, a new event for 2013. This is intended to provide an opportunity for families to enjoy participation in competitive sport together.

Mobile App

Access to entries and results for the 2012 Melbourne Head will be available via the Regatta Central  mobile app. The app can be purchased from the App Store. https://appsto.re/us/g0EwS.i

 

Junior Head marshalling

Launching will be done in bow number order and crews will proceed to the start in order and turn above the Chapel Street Bridge, when instructed by marshals in boats.


Club Events

For 2012 we introduced events for Club crews, as well as the  established  Open, School and Masters crews. We are continuing with this class tp encourage entries by non elite club crews and athletes who seek to race against others with similar training regimes and competition histories. No adjustments will be made to Rowing scores as a result of these events.


Eligibility for Club events:

Persons (coxswain included) not currently enrolled in high school, who, in any sculling or sweep-oared competition DID NOT:

(A) in the current or preceding eight calendar years, finish among the top three places at the FISA World Championships or Olympic Games;

(B) in the current or preceding five calendar years, compete at the FISA World Championships or Olympic games;**

(C) in the preceding four calendar years, finish in first-place in a Championship or Lightweight event-division at a state or national championships.

** Any athlete competing or seeking selectionas a Senior or U23 national team member under the name of their nation’s governing body in national or international competition in the current season is ineligible for the Club event-division.

NB: The Regatta reserves the right to rule on any competition situation