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<br />.. (p. t £ .{¡; <br />~ <br />I can re-Iaunch from shallow water, a shoreline or from the help of a second boat. In the <br /> past spring season, we have mainly used double boat rescues as our primary means of <br /> rescue. <br /> Third, The ADB discussed issues of safety during the Parks and Recreation Commission. <br /> We believe that this concern derives partially from a common misunderstanding. Many <br /> residents are not familiar with the difference between kayaks and crew shells and may <br /> associate SCKT's activities with the crew shells that are commonly seen on the lagoon <br /> rather than with the kayaks that we use. Crew shells go significantly faster than kayaks <br /> and they move backwards. Generally, during SCKT practices, we move at or below 6 <br /> miles per hour. The slow speed combined with the fact that kayakers face forward make <br /> collisions of the type that sometimes occur with crew shells unheard of. <br /> Fourth, the ADB discussed issues of noise, which we also believe may have to do with <br /> the confusion between crew shells and kayaks. Two, four and eight person rowing shells <br /> are often equipped with a coxswain's seat so that rowers have the visual help of someone <br /> seated facing forward in the boat. This coxswain must communicate with people that are <br /> as far away as fifty feet because of the long boat length, so they often use electronically <br /> amplified speaker systems to talk to the rowers. Kayaks are not long and do not require <br /> coxswains because we go forwards, so we have no amplified noise in our boats. The only <br /> noise that we can create is through our own voices. As a matter of practice, the team ~ <br /> refers to the narrow portion of Redwood Shores and the residential area along the wide <br /> water as a "Quiet Zone" where athletes are discouraged from speaking unless absolutely <br />t necessary and only in low voices. <br /> In an effort to build on this positive relationship with the immediate community and have <br /> the least impact on the larger Redwood Shores community of all residents living along <br /> the Lagoon, the SCKT proposes the following agreement regarding both lagoon use <br /> and dock use. <br /> - During the business week, we propose holding at most four one hour long <br /> practices between 3 and 6 pm when the impact on the community would be the least <br /> since most people are at work. We propose holding at most two morning practices <br /> between 7 am and 8 am which would be always be restricted to the business end of the <br /> lagoon in order to reduce the impact on the community as much as possible. <br /> -On the weekends, we propose holding at most one practice that is one and a half <br /> hours long on either Saturday or Sunday morning between 9 am and 12 noon. <br /> - We propose using the lagoon for practice from the last week of September to the <br /> first week of December and from January through first half of May. As summer is the <br /> prime weather for using the lagoon, we hope that our practices will not disturb normal <br /> resident usage of the lagoon. <br />Þ <br />