GUIDELINES

- Start Line: All boats are invited to gather between St. Mark’s Basin and the Giudecca Canal, ready to start together at the cannon shot. Faster boats should be in the front line, so as not to be hindered.

- Critical Points: The points marked in the illustration below (Vignole, S. Erasmo, Mazzorbo, Tre Archi) show bottlenecks where boats should slow down and try to form an orderly line.
Please always keep inside the navigable canals, so as to prevent any possible damage to the boats.

- Cannaregio Canal: When arriving at this point, please try to steer the boat in line with the canal’s entrance to facilitate the passage, especially under the Tre Archi bridge. Please make room for the boats for which steering is more difficult (yole rowing boats)

- Arrival: Please slow down before reaching the finishing line (time of arrival is irrelevant in the Vogalonga). There are two landing places, one along the bank, and one in the middle of the canal: please do not flock together to the bank, but also move to the middle.

- Return: While going back, please keep to the sides of the Grand Canal.

- Rest Stops: Along the route, there will be “official” rest stops at the entrance of the Mazzorbo Canal and beyond the arrival line. There will be other rest stops, to be defined later.

- Emergency: Throughout the route, there will be several rescue and police boats to assist boats experiencing troubles. All boats are connected via radio.
During the competition you can contact the Organizing Committee on the telephone no. +39 338 7011864 which will promptly call the Medical Unit.