Ten Commandments

[Provided by the Montreal Dragon Boat Festival]

1. Life jackets must be in the boat.
2. Buddy system: know name of row mate, if boat capsizes find buddy before swimming to shore.
3. NO standing in the boat.
4. Keep paddle outside of boat at all times.
5. Enter and exit the boat one row at a time.
6. Always listen to your coach.
7. No horseplay in the boat.
8. Always have a minimum of two bailers in the boat.
9. No more than twenty paddlers, one drummer and one coax-person total twenty-two people in the boat.
10. NO swimming in the basin.