| Full Name | Email | Date of Report | Description of Incident (include injuries and damages, if any) | Type of Incident | Location of Incident | Date/Time of Incident | Name of Shell(s) | Individuals Involved | VBR Crew(s) Involved | Injuries Sustained | Incident Details |
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Madison Waddle | madisonawaddle@gmail.com | 06/22/2023 | While carrying the Iron Mike down to launch for Junior HP practice, Hunter C. fell on the metal ramp of the dock. He skinned his knee. The boat was undamaged. He did not complain of any additional pain. He used a bandage from the first aid kit in launch 5, and proceeded with practice as normal. | Injury | Dock | 06/22/2023 07:00 am | Iron Mike | Hunter C. | High School | Yes | Incident Details |
Madison Waddle | madisonawaddle@gmail.com | 06/22/2023 | During a Junior LTR Camp, a camper was rowing normally when the foot stretcher popped out of the boat. We were unable to reconnect the foot stretcher tube ends onto the foot stretcher while on the water. We were able to take the rower out of the boat and replace her with an experienced varsity rower to row the boat back to the dock. No pieces are missing. Possible solution - glue the ends into the tube.
2nd report on shell - there are two small holes in the hull of the boat that are causing the boat to take on water. After 2 practices on the water in a row, the boat needed to be drained quite a bit. | Damaged Equipment | Marina | 06/20/2023 09:00 am | Black Star | Madison, Lilliana (rowed boat back), Adriana (LTR camper who popped foot stretcher out). | High School | No | Incident Details |
Madison Waddle | madisonawaddle@gmail.com | 06/22/2023 | During Tuesday Masters Performance practice, a single red/blue/red oar was found in the mangroves near the dock. It was unclear at the time how long it had been there. At the end of morning practices on Tuesday, it was discovered that the oars' partner was missing. The mangroves surrounding the dock area were inspected, and no oar was found. On Wednesday morning, the missing oar appeared in the boatyard. We suspect that someone found the oar in the water, and kindly tossed it into our yard. There was no damage to the oars. | Other | Dock | 06/20/2023 05:45 am | Oars - Red/Blue/Red Sculling oars (1 pair) | Madison | | | Incident Details |
Madison Waddle | madisonawaddle@gmail.com | 06/17/2023 | A storm with high winds came in right after the 6-8pm Master's LTR. The 2 launches were on the dock with the plugs out. The wind blew the launches off of the docks. Launch 6 was blown between the dock and the shore. It was pulled out of the muck on Friday morning, drained, and cleaned. It did not have any issues running. Julio's launch was blown to the east boat ramp. Julio was able to tie the launch to the ramp over night, but the plug was out. The next morning, there was roughly 6in of water and sediment in the stern of the boat, soaking the battery box. The launch ran fine for the practice, but the battery appeared dead when we tried to raise the motor at the end of the practice. Both launches should be in the yard, and both were cleaned out. | Damaged Equipment | Dock | 06/15/2023 08:00 pm | Launch 6 & Julio's Launch | Madison and Julio. Lilliana helped to pull Launch 6 onto the dock. | | | Incident Details |
Mack Hiden | mack.hiden@verobeachrowing.org | 05/24/2023 | One of the upstairs barbells is noticeably bent. Some heavy deadlifting was performed yesterday evening and I suspect that's when the bar became bent. No injuries were sustained nor was the equipment misused.
The bar might have been slowly bending through regular use, but it is now significantly bent. | Damaged Equipment, Safety | Boathouse Upstairs | 05/24/2023 08:30 am | N/A | Noah, James, Austin were lifting yesterday afternoon | | | Incident Details |
Bill Kloppenburg | bill@kloppenburg.us | 05/22/2023 | Quad heading south towards bridge in the minimum wake zone veered into the IWC across the path of a powerboat that did not slow down. Powerboat took evasive maneuver and passed to starboard of shell. | Safety | North of Bridge | 05/22/2023 08:30 am | Friends or VVV | Maggie, Melissa, Eileen, and Allison | | | Incident Details |
Julio Sanchez | julio.sanchez@verorowing.org | 04/25/2023 | Boats were sent out with 11miles lighting moving away from the boathouse. Coach Julio Sanchez thought the threshold was 10miles distance instead of 15miles.
All boats got safe to the dock and lighting at that time was 19miles away. | Policy, Safety | North of Bridge | 04/25/2023 05:00 pm | Julio Sanchez | Coach Julio, coach Mack, Mason Brown, Hunter Coughlin, Alessio Mazzi, Aidan Powers, Austin Keith, Jac Putman, James Murphy, Gaven Sullivan, Max Zych, Samara Coakley, Zadie Diniz, Kieko Coughlin, Daniela Sonzini, Liliana Elliot, Jude Steinkamp, Salma Sturgell, Ben Powers, Ethan Brown, Wyatt Barton, Corwin Stoddard, Addison Ames and Nora Bumgarner. | High School | No | Incident Details |
Steven Hill | schill99@aol.com | 04/23/2023 | I was bow in VVV heading north on west side of the channel. We were almost last to launch, so passing returning traffic heading south was expected. We passed two singles (port to port) about 3k into our row. The singles had good distance from the shore and from us, and we were well out of the channel, so I felt we were all in our proper lanes. More returning skulls heading south were expected so I continued to look often. Somehow I did not see George in the founder with pontoons. I don’t think he saw me either because there was no warning or yell before impact. We collided port side and the boats came to a stop.. First made sure we were all OK, then checked boats for damage and separated. Our port side oars hitting each other’s boats and equipment is what stopped us. I was worried my port oar hit George in his back, but he said it didn’t.
We were able to continue with our session and I gave both boats and George a closer look during boat wash. I couldn’t find any significant damage. There are probably new scratches on both boats. I noticed founder’s bow ball is loose, but there’s already a screw holding it on. George and I talked and agreed we need to look more often, but as the more experienced rower, I should have seen him first. I now realize although I am more comfortable looking over my left shoulder, it makes more sense to look over my right if I’m expecting traffic from the other direction and we want to pass port to port. If I had looked over my right, this probably would’ve been avoided.
I understand how close this was to head on collision without warning, and can imagine how bad that could be. I’ve always thought of myself as very safety oriented and well aware of my surroundings so this really surprised me. I’m proud of the progress I’ve made with this sport since starting a year ago, but I may have gotten over confident and almost paid dearly. I’m very grateful for this lesson and I’ll be looking over left AND right shoulders from now on!
| Safety, Damaged Equipment | Other | 04/23/2023 08:00 am | VVV, Founder w/ pontoons | Steve Hill- bow vvv
Steven Fuller
Joerg-uwe Szipl
Kevin Coughlin
George Lipscomb - flounder with pontoons
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Mary Keever | fry.mary@yahoo.com | 04/18/2023 | In preparing Cerulean for rowing, it was noticed that a few wing nuts were missing from the foot stretchers. This was resolved but after launch I noticed that the boat was quite difficult to steer. In the harbor I found that the boat was skewing to port and mostly unresponsive to the steering mechanism. My toe couldn't go all the way to the left and also I noticed a kink in the steering cable which seemed to be keeping the cable from sliding all the way to the right. At about 1000 meters out, we realized that the end of the steering cable was trapped under the rigging. We eventually turned around and returned to the dock without incident by rowing mostly on port and occasionally checking on starboard. After the boat was back in the boathouse, Julio fixed the trapped steering cable and also tightened the cable so it moved more freely to both sides. | Safety | Boat Bays | 04/18/2023 07:30 am | Cerulean | Mary Keever, Suzy Stoeckel, Terry Leonard, Rachel Lipscomb | Masters | | Incident Details |
Julie McCusker | onosmajm@gmail.com | 04/10/2023 | As described above | First Aid Kit | Other | 04/10/2023 12:00 am | | Abigail Goldsmith | | | Incident Details |
Robert Snyder | badbob1954@gmail.com | 04/10/2023 | Hole in drywall from lower stairwell door opening too far.
/Users/bysnyder/Desktop/IMG_2643.jpg | Damaged Facility | Other | 04/10/2023 ????????? 12:00 am | N/A | Unknown at this time. | High School, Middle School, Masters, Visiting | No | Incident Details |
Mary Keever | fry.mary@yahoo.com | 02/23/2023 | The Terry Ryan has a two-inch-ish scratch on the bottom, closer to the bow. I'm pretty sure we scraped the boat against the rigging of the boat above as we removed the TR from the rack in preparation for rowing. | Damaged Equipment | Boat Bays | 02/23/2023 07:30 am | Terry Ryan | Mary Keever, Nancy - a visitor from Rochester, NY | Masters | | Incident Details |
April Modrzakowski | zskirocks@gmail.com | 02/12/2023 | Carrying my 1x to dock, like any other morning. Slipped on ramp and fell. Immediate visible injury to my left knee. Small but deepish scrape was bleeding. Below my knee was a bruise or surface scrape.
Pain is in both knees & elbows, and lower back/side.
My 1x, as far as we could tell, had no damage. All persons helped with inspection. | Injury, Safety | Other | 02/10/2023 07:20 am | MightyMouse | Suzy S, Tom & Suzy Dorrance, Susan Edge, Cheri, Francine all came to my aid. | Masters | Yes | Incident Details |
James Michael | jmichae2@gmail.com | 02/08/2023 | I went upstairs into the boathouse and about 22 students were working out/ goofing off upstairs with no supervision.Shotsi happened to walk upstairs and witnessed the same behavior. At one point Shotsi told a group of them to knock off their behavior when she witnessed them misusing equipment. Mack eventually came upstairs. Mack told me he was supposed to be the one providing supervision but was pulled aside to speak with a rower (Salma). While that is good I think it left several kids unsupervised for an extended period of time. | Safety | Boathouse Upstairs | 02/08/2023 06:15 pm | N/A | 22 high school students (I believe Varsity)
Shotsi, Jimmy, Mack | High School | No | Incident Details |
Shotsi Lajoie | president@verobeachrowing.org | 02/07/2023 | Bolts lose on all riggers.
2 seat bolts fell out when we took it out at the dock , 2 seat bolts fell on the dock on port side. | Safety | Dock | 02/07/2023 12:00 am | Snook | Shotsi, Chris Ryan, Jimmy Michael and John Watt.
John put them back in found nuts.
John mentioned all bolts we lose. | | | Incident Details |
Abbilyn Moyer | abbilyn.moyer@verobeachrowing.org | 02/06/2023 | In front of Gifford Cut, closer to the boathouse. Toffey was rowing back towards the boathouse and Cerulean was rowing out. Both boats did not see the other, and while they attempting to avoid the collision, they hit on starboard sides. Bow seats oar from the 8+, in an attempt to duck out of the way, hit Mason in the back of the head. I took Mason out of the boat and he rode in the launch back to the dock. He said he was shaking and his head hurt, but after asking concussion like symptoms, he had no headache, blurriness/dizziness, or nausea. To my knowledge, there were no damages to the boats. | Safety | Gifford Cut | 02/06/2023 05:00 pm | Toffey and Cerulean | In the Toffey: (Coxswain --> Bow) Salma, Zadie, Sofi, Lily, Lorelei, KK, Dannie, Liliana
In the Cerulean: (Bow to Stroke) Ethan, Corwin, Ethan, and I don't remember stroke I'm sorry!! | High School | | Incident Details |
James Michael | jmichae2@gmail.com | 02/05/2023 | When we discussed in the operations meeting Gus thought the term Violation was too strong. Can we change Policy Violation to Policy and Safety Threat to Safety.
Should Damages Sustained change to Equipment Damage? | , , Other | Boat Bays | 02/05/2023 08:20 am | | Test people | High School, Masters | No | Incident Details |
