Faultline Faceoff 2017

                           Coaches Packet

        The Faultline Faceoff is an Invitational Regatta

Here is a list of teams we are inviting, if you have not been invited it is because of a lack of space.  Please Contact [email protected] if you have any questions about the event.

Northern California Teams

Oakland Strokes

Berkeley High School

Capital Crew

Los Gatos Rowing Club

Marin Rowing Association

North Bay

NorCal Rowing

Pacific Rowing Club

Redwood Scullers

River City Rowing Club

Serra High School

           

Southern California Teams

Long Beach Junior Rowing

Marina Aquatic Center

Newport Aquatic Center

Newport Seabase

San Diego Rowing Club

Rent a tent for your team – Deadline February 5th

Tents will be available in a 20’ x 20’ size with an option to have a 20’ X 40’ tent.   Tents will only be available until February 5th.  After that it will be too late to order a tent.  Based on the amount of rain we have had we think having real tents with sides might be a good idea for the weekend.

To order your tent send Beth Anderson an e-mail: [email protected] 

Food Trucks:

There will be food trucks at the venue both Saturday and Sunday.  Please tell your parents to feel free to use them.  We get no $$ from the food trucks, but we believe that they are a positive addition to our event.  Please help bring them back by supporting them!

Vendors:

JL and a T-shirt Vendor will be at the site, so please visit them.

Parking:

Permits:    Deadline - Feb 5th  - Link:

We will not be selling permits to individuals.  Rather, permits will be sold to each team for distribution to their parents, coaches, and volunteers.  Permits will cost $60 each.  The permits will be for in and out privileges for both Saturday and Sunday and parking in the main lot, by the boat launch.  Parents should check with their own team’s head coaches to see if there will be a permit available for them to use.  There will be no purchasing of permits on-site.  If you do not have a permit before you arrive you need to park in the overflow parking at the Orinda BART station and take the shuttle.  Please plan your time accordingly.  The shuttle will run every 20 -30 minutes depending on the time of day.

Location:

Address: 522 Old San Pablo Dam Road, Orinda, CA  (there is no address on the street) it is the East Bay Mud entrance toward the Boat Launch Site at the south end of the dam.  Big sign on the right about ¼ mile past Bear Creek Road off of San Pablo Dam Road.

Directions:

From 24 – Exit at Orinda, follow the signs to Camino Pablo Road follow it North toward San Pablo and just past Bear Creek Road, the name of the road changes to San Pablo Dam Rd.  ¼ mile past Bear Creek Road will be the entrance to the Boat launch, make a right there.  It is another mile down that road to the actual boat launch.

No Parking Permit??  Here are your directions:

All cars without a permit will be allowed to drop athletes at the athlete drop zone at 522 Old San Pablo Dam Road, Orinda, CA; however, they will have to immediately leave the site and park at the overflow lot at the Orinda BART station.

Shuttle Schedule from the BART Station:

Saturday:  Every 30 minutes beginning at 9:30am from the Orinda Bart Station and continuing until 6:00pm.

Sunday: Every 20 minutes beginning at 6am and continuing until 4:00pm

Athlete Drop off Information 

Plan ahead for getting your athletes to the site.  If your parents are carpooling and do not have a permit, you may want to plan on using some of your permits to shuttle your athletes into the venue.  We will do our best with the shuttles, but at peak times (6am to 9am on Sunday) we may be limited in our ability to get athletes to the site in a time efficient way.  Please plan ahead.
 

Faultline Faceoff 2017

Coach & Staff Information

Driving Information

Do not enter at the visitor center (North end of the lake) with buses or trailers, you will get stuck and could cause serious damage to your vehicles/boats.  The entrance for our events will be at the Boat Launch.

Permits:

Permits will be sold to each team for $65 each, (these will be purchased only by each team online).  The permits will be for in and out privileges for both Saturday and Sunday and parking in the main lot, by the boat launch.  Each team will be able to buy up to 15 permits for the weekend.   If some teams need fewer, then they will be allocated to teams who would like to buy more.  These will be sent to the main contact at each club one week before the event. Distribution of the permits to your parents, volunteers and coaches will be up to each club.  There will be no extra permits. There will be no event permit pick-up or sales of permits on-site.  All truck permits and bus permits will be purchased in advance and mailed to the teams, cost will be $100 per truck (this covers our per boat fee of mussel checking) and $100 per Bus for the weekend (this is what the park charges us)

Boat Trailers:

Trailers are welcome to come into the park on Friday anytime (before 6pm) and Saturday morning (from 6am to 8:30am).  It is important that you understand space will be at a premium.  Please wait until the trailers are all parked before you begin laying out slings.  If there are trailers that cannot arrive before 8:30am on Saturday, you need to contact us immediately.

We need to fit all the trailers in the two lots.  Please let us know when you will be arriving.  This is important, as we have to park many trailers, and all trailers need to be parked before any boats are off-loaded.  Space for boats will be tight, so please help us to make it a good experience for everyone.

There will be no parking of boats or trailers in the main lot.

Location:

Address: 522 Old San Pablo Dam Road, Orinda, CA  (there is no address on the street) it is the East Bay Mud entrance toward the Boat Launch Site at the south end of the dam.  Big sign on the right about ¼ mile past Bear Creek Road off of San Pablo Dam Road.

Directions:

From 24 – Exit at Orinda, follow the signs to Camino Pablo Road follow it North toward San Pablo and just past Bear Creek Road, the name of the road changes to San Pablo Dam Rd.  ¼ mile past Bear Creek Road will be the entrance to the Boat launch, make a right there.  It is another mile down that road to the actual boat launch.

Please share this parking information with your parents.  Here are your directions:

All cars without a permit will be allowed to drop athletes at the athlete drop zone, but will have to immediately leave the site and park in the overflow parking lot at the Orinda BART station.  The Shuttle from the BART Station will run from 6:30am to 1 hour after the last race each day.  Please plan accordingly. 

Athlete Drop off Information  ***NEW FOR 2016****

Coaches, please plan ahead for getting your athletes to the site.  If your parents are carpooling, you may want to plan on using some of your permits to shuttle your athletes into the venue.  We will do our best, but if everyone shows up at the same time, we may be limited in our ability to get athletes to the site in a time efficient way.  Please plan ahead.

 

Park Opening and Closing:

            Saturday –     Park is open from 7am to 6pm

Course is open from 9am to 5pm  (all trailers must be parked by 8am on Saturday)

All athletes, buses & Parents must be out of the park by 6pm.  Do not plan on having your dinner at the race course.  Please eat at your hotel, or at another location.

Sunday -         Park gate will open at 6am

Only cars, trucks & Buses with an event permit will be admitted and allowed into the park.   All permits will be sold and distributed to the teams, No permits will be sold at the event or to individuals.

Permit -          $65 per weekend (Sat & Sunday)

Buses will cost $100 per weekend

Trailer Rig cost will bee  $100 per weekend (this covers our mussel check costs/per boat)

 

 

Information for Racing

Coaches & Cox Meeting:

Saturday at noon at the Finish Line

Boat Check for Mussels:

Please remember every boat must be checked for Quagga Muscles before launching.  If you launch without a blue tag on your boat you will be disqualified.  This puts our site and our ability to run regatta’s here in jeapordy.  To pass the muscle inspection, boats must be dry inside and out and need to be clean.  We will start checking boats at 8:00 Saturday morning.  That is the earliest we can unload trailers as well.  Remember if your boats don’t pass the inspection, you can’t launch.  So, please come prepared, with towels, etc…

Starting Line:

We will use a starting platform for the races to facilitate starting.  This will require your crews to be able to back into a stake boat and to scull.  Please help us with this.   Please teach your crews to listen to the starter.  We will do our best to have a fair and calm start.

Bow Numbers:

Please use Bow Numbers for your lanes, it will make it easier for our finish line.  We will be checking bow numbers prior to launch.  This helps our finish line record accurate times, please help us with this.

Lightweight Weigh-ins:

There will be no Weigh-ins at Faultline.  We trust each coach to be fair and honest with their lightweight crews.