Rowers should familiarise themselves with the Rowing ACT Rules for Rowing Safely on ACT Lakes
(available from the Rowing ACT website)
Boat Traffic Guidelines – 2012
- Boat traffic direction is anti-clockwise on Lake Tuggeranong.
- Commence all rows by heading south from the pontoon located outside the rowing shed.
- Boats commencing their row must give way to boat traffic already coming south down the course.
- Turn beyond old buoy on the southern side of bridge.
- Slower boats give way to faster overtaking boats once on the 1000m course.
- When heading north, veer off the buoy line at the 750m to head to islands. This avoids close encounters with southbound craft. Return to the buoy line from the islands passing on the bank side of the north turning buoy.
- When heading north to the end of the 1000m course, easy oar at the end of the buoy line and turn before the
north turning buoy, keeping a lookout for, and giving way to boats rounding the buoy.
- Absolutely no crossing the buoy line on stroke side in either direction. If this occurs inadvertently an immediate call to easy oar should be made and the crew should correct their boat location back to the correct side of the buoy line.
- Crews doing island to dam wall pieces must double check for buoy line traffic when approaching the northern turning buoy area.
- Finish row sessions on the southward bound lap where possible, pausing at the 250m to turn off the course and head into the pontoon.
- Do not sit close to buoy line while waiting to dock on the pontoon.
- Only exception to above rules is in the case of regattas or whole of course training, with boats using both sides of the buoy line. In which case, all boats travel in the one direction under the supervision of support craft.Traffic Flow Rules
The Rules are simple.
1) When Rowing keep the buoy line on your right (Stroke)side.
2) The buoy line is 1km long. At the end of the buoy line there are 2 red buoys. The first red buoy is for the turn around of boats rowing the buoy line course. The second red buoy is for boats comming in from the Island to turn onto the course. Following these rules will reduce the chance of collision as boats enter and turn onto the course.
3) Continue under the bridge before turning around.
4) If it is dark put a light on the boat and be aware of fisherman in boats they are very quite.
Please refer to the attached file for a diagram of the lakes traffic flow.
