Re: SPARE CAPACITY

Rower123 wrote:
I suggest the answer is to accomodate both groups.

For adult crews (UK), most boat club equipment is used on tues / wed /
thurs evenings in summer and weekend mornings. There are exceptions,
but generally this is what happens.

So be resourceful & creative, have the students row earlier during day,
the novices after work (presuming that this is the case). On weekends
mix land training with water training for the groups so you can "hot
boat". The novices will have no preconceived notions of when they do
their rowing, so maybe they'll be willing to row weekend afternoons, or
evenings.

Sure on occasions you'll have bottlenecks and conflicts but surely
turning away a talented or a potentially more talented group is
admitting defeat without even trying.

I can work until people want to go away to regattas and heads, and they don't want to, or can't go to the the same ones (either because the events are too high standard for them, or because they can't get entries for all the crews).
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