Uxbridge & District Curling Club

Return to Curling Protocol

**Updated Nov 29 2021**

Vaccines (Verification will be part of the Registration process)

As of September 22, 2021, all UCC members (Active and Associates) will need to be fully vaccinated (two doses plus 14 days) and provide their proof of vaccination along with photo ID prior to entering the Uxbridge Curling Club.
Individuals who cannot receive the vaccine due to medical exemptions will be permitted entry with a doctor’s note until recognized medical exemptions can be integrated as part of a digital vaccine certificate.

Arrival / Exit

Curlers will be asked to arrive “ready to curl”.
Effective November 1st, all Active and Associate Members will be allowed in the building.
All Members will enter the building via either the front or rear door.
Masks must be worn in the club house, except when seated in the bar area.
Covid Screening will be implemented for all curlers.
Contact tracing – League lists will be used. Spares & spectators will need to sign in.
Curlers on the first draw will go directly downstairs to leave coat, boots etc. and then proceed up the front steps to wait to go onto the ice.
Curlers on the second and third draw will go directly upstairs to leave coat, boots etc.
Ice surface will be accessed from the east door.
Exit the ice surface via the west door. Proceed downstairs to the bar area to the assigned table for your ice and wait from information from the bar regarding bar service.
If your coat and boots are upstairs, proceed upstairs from the bar area via the front stairs.
Exit the building via ether the front or rear door.

On Ice Rules of Play

Masks are optional while on the ice surface.
Bring your own water.
Club equipment (brooms, sliders, throwing stabilizers will not be available.)
Players will use a Lysol wipe before and after the game to sanitize their own stones. This could be done by each curler, or one member of the team could clean all 8 team rocks.
No switching stones during a game.
No handshakes.
No coin toss - Use an on-line tool (https://justflipacoin.com) or one vice could use their own coin.
No extra ends to break a tie.
Measuring – one Vice will remove their gloves, sanitize their hands, get the measuring device, and conduct measure, return device, sanitize their hands.
The Vice (wearing gloves) may record the score using the Score Board.
Players will always walk on the same side of the sheet
- Sheet 1 – next to sheet 2
- Sheet 2 – next to sheet 3
- Sheet 3 – next to sheet 4
- Sheet 4 – next to the wall

Non- Delivering Team

The player waiting to deliver the “next rock “should be positioned at the hogline on the same side as the markers.
The other two players should stand on the two small markings, located near the middle of the sheet, when the other team is throwing.
Skip or Vice (only one) - will stand on the backboards but no closer than the hack.
The skip (vice) is allowed to sweep behind the T-line but cannot sweep the same rock as the sweeper for the delivery team.

Delivering Team

Only one Sweeper. The non-sweeping player remains on the back boards.
The Sweeper is initially located at the T-line.
Only the Sweeper of this rock is allowed to sweep in the house. They may choose to sweep either their rock or the opposing team’s rock behind the T line.
Skip or Vice (only one) controls the house.

Bar

Curlers will use the assigned tables located downstairs in the bar area to socialize after the game.
Two tables per ice will be provided to maximize social distancing.
Line ups for drinks/food must ensure social distancing & masks must be worn.
For busy nights – when possible, bartenders will offer “pre-ordering” of drinks and / or table service. If not, tables may be served in the order that they finish their games. One sheet to go to bar at a time to allow social distancing in the line.
Curlers who play on an early draw (7:00 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Friday) will be required to vacate the assigned tables a minimum of 15 minutes before next games are scheduled to end.
Curlers may move to the small round tables upstairs to finish their drinks.
Tap will be the preferred payment option. Please use debit if possible due to service charges.
No outside food is permitted.