Human Race Windsor Triathlon 2023: river restriction notice
Published 19 May 2023
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When
Sunday 11 June 2023, 6am to 9:45am.
Where
Romney reach, Windsor and Eton Footbridge to the A332 Windsor/Eton Relief Road Bridge.
Details
The navigation channel will be on the Eton, North, right side of the river. The navigation channel will be a one-way channel. There will be a safety boat at each end of the channel as well as marshals at Boveney and Romney locks. The navigation channel will be marked by navigation buoys from the afternoon of Saturday 10 June and these will be illuminated.
The marshals and safety boats will be in contact with one another and the safety boats will escort river users along the navigation channel one direction at a time.
Please do not attempt to navigate against the advice of the event safety team. They are there to ensure your safety as well as the swimmers.
Swimmers will be using a buoyed channel between the Windsor and Eton Footbridge (What3Words: ///linked.evenly.frames) and the A332 Windsor/Eton Relief Road Bridge (What3Words: ///ocean.zooms.apples)on the Windsor, south, left side of the river.
Regatta boards will mark the upstream and downstream extent of the course.
All directions as to left bank and right banks are given looking upstream.
Masters of all boats should navigate extremely slowly and maintain a good lookout between the Windsor and Eton Footbridge and the A332 Windsor/Eton Relief Road Bridge.
In addition to the safety escort boats a number of safety kayaks will be in attendance operating just outside the swimming channel, in the navigation channel, please be prepared to give way if they are involved in a rescue.
All boats should be navigated in accordance with any instructions given from the event safety boats, marshals and Environment Agency control points or patrol launches.
Those in charge of boats should be aware that they are responsible for avoiding collision and should use all available means appropriate to the circumstances and conditions to decide if there is a risk of immediate danger and avoid it.
Byelaws
Nothing contained in these directions shall supersede those parts of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 and the UK Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 as may be relevant. Particular attention should be paid to byelaws 24-42 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993, Steering Sailing and Speed.
And Notice is hereby given, that it is provided by Byelaw 52 of the Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993 that:
The master of any vessel shall except in an emergency not pass any boat-race regatta public procession or gathering for the launch of a vessel or any other event or function which may cause a crowd to assemble on or by the river nor station his vessel thereon in such a manner as would risk obstructing impeding or interfering with such boat-race regatta procession launching event or function or endangering the safety of persons assembling on the river or preventing or interfering with the maintenance of order thereon.
The maximum penalty for breach of the Byelaws is £1,000.
Read our Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993