Minutes - Sailing Committee Meeting
Date: 22 June 2017
Time: 1930
Location: Clubhouse
Attending: Gareth Griffiths (chair), Simon Bean, Uta Griesenbach, Mike Jones, Dave Simpson,
Not attending: Colin Bristow, Mike Storey, CJ Cavallari,
Apologies: Ian Peace, Chris Smith, Dave Baldwin
Minutes prepared by Uta Griesenbach
Item | Discussion | Actions |
Fleet starts | Gareth questioned whether fleets work? This winter not many Lasers and Solos were out. Maybe a handicap start (slow and fast) would work better. Fleet captains canvassed opinions and there were no strong objections. Aeros don't want separate start currently and are happy to start as handicap. All agreed to try handicap start in summer season. New start sequence, 2 starts fast then slow (opposite to Wednesday), cut off handicap 1000, laser and slower, slow start. Fast start will have aero 7 and 9, aero 5 in slow. If drop from 7 to 5, still race in fast. Will be given handicap for 5. Rig swapping allowed for laser and aero Prizes will retain a class element Experiment for summer series, reassess at end of summer Aero (no separate extraction, stay handicap) and RS200 (extract individual) Anniversary: fast and slow start, not gold and silver | GG to circulate details to the full committee and membership UGto check with Nick if he would be happy to extract RS200 results |
Wednesday series | Proposal: Pursuit races instead of class racing may be a better option. Decision: Cant be done. Race needs to be certain length, this is not possible early and late in the season unless all races are kept short. Idea was dropped | No action required |
Match Racing: May 6 2017 | Good event. Do again next year | MJ to organise |
Feva match racing | Fleet to small, take off agenda | No action required |
Kids vs adult race | Suggestion was approved | MJ to decide day and organise |
Fun day July 23 2017 | Usual format | MJ to organise Nick M to put on Website MJ to inform membership asap |
October Cruise Sept 30+Oct 1 | 3 Skippers for rental yachts identified + 1 or 2 private boats | MJ to organise Nick M to put on Website MJ to inform membership asap |
Boat maintenance | Caroline (lastname?) agreed to support Alexis Mike J agree to overhaul toppers. Dylan Emmett is considering to help with Visions, but is currently looking for a partner to share task. Label visions with big numbers to make reporting easier | No further action MJ to overhaul toppers and buy 2x4.7 sails from Elmsbridge grant Final decision outstanding UG to order big numbers |
Training | William Tahourdin runs J80 training at Royal Southern Training and spaces are sometimes available- Mike suggested to ask club teens if they are interested | MJ to make contact with Will T |
TrySail | Offer to include free use of boat in 1 yr membership to attract TrySailors. Needs committee approval | CS to discuss at committee meeting |
Boat shelters | Would be useful to have a video on website. Collin Bristow agreed to look into this at March committee meeting | UG to speak to Colin |
Social sailing | At March meeting Collin Bristow agreed to circulate RYA info and info from other clubs on how this could be run and advertised | UG to speak to Collin |
Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation | At March meeting Collin Bristow mentioned that free toppers may be available. | UG to speak to Collin |
Bird faeces | Spiders work, but are expensive. Dave B may be able to make cheaper models | UG to speak to Dave B |
Buoys | Floating boys repaired rather than newly purchased. Thank you Mike J | No action required |
Summer season | Split at commodores day, commodores prizes on day, spring series prize later as commodores day is busy. | GG to decide date for spring series prize giving |
RYA training | Mike S was planning to talk to Mike J and Chris S re feasibility of running RYA training in parallel to TrySail and Sailing school. Lots of support to enable both. Mike J prepared to do DI and SI Gareth planning to do SI | UG to remind Mike S to move this forward |
Liability Insurance | Liability needs to be reviewed. Nobody really clear | UG to read insurance policy and feed back |
Organisation of upcoming Opens and Events | Management of event needs to be improved to maximise participation. Task and people responsible need to be clarified and assigned early. Mike J generated a spreadsheet listing events and tasks for 2017 | UG to set up dropbox that all sailing committee members and other relevant people can access and modify. |
Streaker/Solo open | Simon Bean in charge. Organisation well in hand. | |
Commodores day | Mike J in charge. Organisation well in hand. | |
Round the island | GG to send reminder and overall organise, but cant be there on day. MJ is also away | GG to find a replacement Nick M to add to website GG to inform membership |
Topper Open Coaching | Coming to IBRSC Sept 29th. Good publicity for club. Additional helpers (6) need to be found. Food needs to be provided. MJ and UG away (IB Sailing Cruise). James Williamson in charge for organising. Alexis has confirmed that 5 rescue boats will be available | UG to keep an eye on progress and talk to James W about food |
RYA Feva training | MJ organised this for March: 17/18 2018 - Mike J and CJ involved Needs 6 people (catering boats out and getting boats out) | MJ to organise |
Sailing school | Collin cant do topper anymore, Johnathan taking over, but may need additional support because ~10 boats with real beginners. Should not exceed 10:1 ration, lower ratio much preferred. CJ and Gareth working well together for Feva/laser- | ALL: Helper for JL needs to be identified |
Topaz | Thanks Chris: 2 Topaz resurrected for minimal money. These work well for TrySail. A third boat would be very useful. In future this avoids use of Solos for Trysail and makes all Solos available for TryRace | CS to look into an additional abandoned Topaz |
AOB | Circulate minutes to all membership to improve communication in addition to having minutes on website | UG to circulate and send to Nick M for Website |
Next meeting | Early/Mid October | UG to arrange date |