Volunteer Training

What is Volunteer Training?

The Head of the Charles Regatta Launch Committee provides and requires annual training for all Launch Committee Volunteers. Training is focused on:

Maintaining safety for competitors, volunteers, and spectators.
Ensuring that equipment is cared for properly and promptly returned clean and undamaged.
Provide important information to volunteers on Regatta Weekend operations and routines such as morning check-in, departing/returning from stations, how the Regatta races are managed, parking, etc.
- - This includes annual changes and updates.

In addition to annual HOCR Launch Volunteer training, the State of Massachusetts requires Boater Safety Training for all powerboat operators Learn more about these requirements on the Massacusetts Boater Safety Certificate page.

There are 3 Training Tracks:

New Volunteer is for volunteers with no Launch Committee experience, and recommended for returning volunteers with less than 3 years of experience.
Veteran is a shortened review training track for experience Launch Committee volunteers.
Dock Hand is intended for Launch Volunteers that will not be volunteering on a launch, such as morning check in volunteers.

How do the Training Tracks Work?

Each Training Track has one or more training modules for different topics with a quiz.

Training modules consist of a .pdf file containing PowerPoint slides to review at your own speed.
Quizzes are linked within the Training Module and open a Google Form with the questions.

How will my training be recorded? Will I know if I passed the Quiz?

A passing score on the required quiz indicates completion of the training track.
Volunteers are responsible for selecting and completing the appropriate Training Track (based on the descriptions above)
You will receive your score after you submit your quiz.
- If you do not achieve a passing score, please review the modules and re-take the quiz until you receive a p.
The volunteer coordinator will review a report of all quiz scores to record completion of training.

Please review the information above carefully, but if you still have questions contact the Launch committee at Launches@hocr.org