Re: Unaccompanied minors sculling.......


"Peter Ford" <p3t3r.f0rd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 4:25 pm, bookie <emily_boo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7 Jan, 18:17, TidewayUmpire <pen...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



OK 13 year olds sounds foolish, but what do people think about 16,17
and 18 year olds with 4+ years of experience of rowing and of making
their own risk assessments sculling in groups without direct
supervision? It seemed fairly sensible to us at the time, and without
which gentle breaking in I would feel much less confident about
training now there is no question of being supervised.

Peter you raise a tricky one here.

My club has a rule whereby juniors only go out when there are other people
at the club. We could imagine the consequences (and me especially as a
director of said club) if one went out on his own unsupervised and drowned.
We count anyone under 18 as a junior.

Yet the law would allow a 17 year old (and younger in some countries) out,
completely unsupervised, in another mode of transport (with a much higher
accident rate) weighing half a tonne perhaps and carrying four passengers at
up to 70 mph (110kph). If anything, in rowing we err on the side of caution.


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