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2010 Cruising Awards

 

Please find below the award rules for the year 2009. Note the extra category in the Bonus Points qualifications.

 

If you wish to enter your log for an award it must be presented to Ann Pollard, our Cruising Awards Officer, not later than 31st January 2011.  There is a fee of £3 which must be paid to Ann Pollard with the submission and, if you want your logbook returned by post, then please submit a suitable wrapping complete with postage, with the logbook.

 

AWARD QUALIFICATIONS

In the calendar year commencing 1st January 2009, to have completed any three of the qualifying gatherings or cruises, one of which must be Society events (a - c) and to have earned a minimum of 800 points.

• The member claiming the award must be aboard for all the qualifying points.
• Minimum standard lock points required = 300

 

QUALIFYING GATHERINGS

• To have officially entered the Society’s Summer Gathering and stayed for a minimum of 24 hours.
   
• To have attended the Society’s Spring Gathering.
   
• To have attended the Society’s Autumn Gathering

 

QUALIFYING CRUISES

• To have navigated the entire Stourbridge Canal, in either direction. Note: This includes the Stourbridge Arm, the navigable section of the Fens Branch to Brockmoor Junction and the Stourbridge Extension Canal.
   
• To have navigated a minimum of 30 different miles of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.

 

STANDARD POINTS

On specified BCN waters listed below:-

Wyrley & Essington  (Horsley Fields to Ogley)

Walsall  (Birchalls to Pudding Green)

Daw End / Rushall  (Catshill to Rushall)

Anglesey  (Chasewater to Ogley)

Tame Valley  (Tame Valley to Salford)

Wednesbury Oak Loop  (Workshops to Deepfields)

Digbeth Branch  (Aston to Bordsley)

 

• Two points for every mile travelled.
• Two points for every lock passed through.

 

On all other waterways:

• One point for every mile travelled.

 

BONUS POINTS

(NB. No bonus points are ever doubled)

• All standard points earned in the periods 1st January to 31st March and 1st October to 31st December are doubled. 
   
• 15 bonus points to Titford Pools. 
   
• 10 bonus points for each passage of the ‘Wolverhampton 21’ flight of locks.
• 15 bonus points for navigation on the River Weaver.
• 10 bonus points for navigating to the end of any dead end canal. Note: This bonus can be applied once only for each dead end

 

PROOF

All logs must contain proof of reaching the recorded destinations. Examples would be dated signatures, photographs, identifiable receipts of purchases etc.

 

  2010 Awards

 

• Mike & Marion Cotton
  Orcaella
• Frank & Gill Spragg
  Fragil
• Barbara & Keith Swash
  Aristos
• Murial & Malcolm Wild
  Icthus
• Stephanie & Malcolm Grey-Smart
  Elisha
• Ann and Gareth Pollard
  Sunbeam2
• David Caunt & Family
  Cornelian