Daily private socially distanced paddles – June 2020

For club members who have passed a key assessment to take out their allocated boat during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Members have been contacted and (will be) allocated a boat, buoyancy aid and paddle to use for the rest of this month. Paddling on the Thames departing and returning to the club. Boats are not to be transported to other waterways.

Kit to be used with the following restrictions:-

• To maintain social distancing, only members of one household/bubble are permitted in the building at any time.
• Please arrive to the building dressed in your paddling clothing – no changing inside.
• If on arrival you find the building unlocked, you may not enter.  Wait for the occupant/s to get their equipment out, (or put their equipment away), lock up and leave.
• If the building is locked, you can safely assume there is no-one inside and proceed to get your boat out/put it away.  Please minimise the time you spend inside the building so that others may access it after you in a timely manner.
• It is your responsibility to keep yourself safe, so use hand sanitizer or wash your hands thoroughly before and after touching surfaces people from outside your household/bubble may have touched.

For clarification, to avoid cross-contamination no club equipment is to be used at this time (boats, paddles buoyancy aids, gym equipment etc.) except the numbered equipment which has been allocated to you and only the boat-house will be accessible.  The combination to the rest of the club (changing rooms, toilets, club-room, gym) has been changed, so please do not try to enter.