Movables
Movables
The movables contain essential parts of the entire regatta infrastructure. This includes all pontoons for launching and exiting the boats, the victory ceremony- and motorboat pontoons, the starting facility with the starting tower, the Albano system, the markings at the start, finish and on the course and the 17 catamarans, aluminium boats and inflatable boats for the referee and water saftey during the regattas. With the exception of the starting tower, all movables are mainly assembled by volunteers for the rowing events and dismantled after the events. A major challenge is the storage of the large volume of material. Most of the furniture was newly procured in the course of the renovation of the natural arena. The foundation is also responsible for the maintenance of the material.
Boat racks are installed on the Rotseewiese to store the boats. There are 3 different sizes for singles and pairs / doubles, for fours / quads and for eights. A total of up to 400 boats can be stored on these racks.
The storage for the boat racks is located in the material hall 1 in the rowing centre.
A separate pontoon will be installed at the 1,000 metre mark for landing the referee and lifeboats. This pontoon consists of 7 floating elements and an access bridge. The rescue service with doctors, Samaritans and lifeguards will be located in the immediate vicinity during the regatta.
The pontoons are stored on the south side of the rowing centre.
There are 4 pontoons available for launching and exiting the boats. The individual pontoons consist of 8 – 12 floating elements and the access bridges. 3 of the 4 pontoons are installed or removed each year for the regattas, which involves a considerable amount of work.
The pontoons are stored on the south side of the rowing centre.
The fourth pontoon attached to the side serves as a training pontoon from 1 May to 15 October. This pontoon is often used by the Rotsee fishermen and remains in the water all year round.
The Lucerne Rowing Centre Foundation has a total of 17 motorboats, including engines, which are used during the regattas, primarily for referee assistance and to ensure the safety of the athletes. A further 3 boats are available for setting up the regatta infrastructure, one of which is a motorised work platform specially designed for this purpose. The storage area for the motorboats is located in material hall 2 in the rowing centre.
The victory ceremony pontoon consists of 24 floating elements similar to the launching and exiting pontoons as well as 2 access bridges. These also have to be put into and taken out of the water every year.
These elements are stored outside the rowing centre.
For orientation on the regatta course, there are markings every 250 metres indicating the distance rowed. Each race lane is also numbered and the start and finish are specially marked.
An Albano system is a buoy chain system used in rowing and canoeing regattas.
The entire length of the regatta course is marked by an Albano system and enables the individual lanes to be separated. The buoys are about ten metres apart.
The Albano system is named after Lake Albano (Italian: Lago Albano), on which the Olympic rowing and canoeing competitions were held at the 1960 Olympic Games. The system was first used internationally at the Olympic regattas after the World Rowing Federation FISA approved this proposal at its congress in Mâcon in 1959. Since 1960, there have been six marked lanes in rowing and nine marked lanes in canoe racing at all major regattas.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The storage facility for the Albano system is located in material hall 1 in the rowing centre.
The starting system consists of 3 parts. A steel construction firmly anchored under water, a lake-crossing pontoon consisting of 21 floating pontoons, eight finger docks to which the boats dock before the start and a floating start tower with 3 levels that is permanently installed. This is where the referees start the races.
The pontoons are stored on the south side of the rowing centre.