Minutes - Sailing Committee Meeting
Date: January 31 2018
Time: 1930
Location: Clubhouse
Attending: Gareth Griffith (chair), Simon Bean, Uta Griesenbach, Mike Jones, Alexis Villier, Dave Simpson, Dave Baldwin, Nick Marley
Apologies: Chris Smith, Colin Bristow
Absent: Paul Playle, Mike Storey, CJ Cavallari
Minutes prepared by Uta Griesenbach
Item | Discussion | Actions |
Boat maintenance | Visions : Mike Storey agreed to take on Visions and to arrange Vision crewing for interested TrySailors/other inexperienced club members | Mike S |
Fleets | Laser: training session Aero has email group and may set up face book group. Other fleets to consider similar If aero open is big, go to aero only open in 2019 RS200: all good series going well Consider doing rs200 series all year. Put effort into further growing RS200 fleet through targeted advertising | Simon B to organise Fleet captains to think about Gareth G to assess Nick M to action |
Sailing School | Strong leadership for all boat types in place | No further action required |
Prizes | Summer and winter prize; overall prize and most improved prize Laser prize | Gareth to organise Simon to speak to Rob P |
Socials | RYA is running dedicated sessions to advise clubs on increasing memberships. Several club members attending meetings with Steve Mitchell and Ben Kimbell. Ideas: Friendly Fridays; monthly May - August (Social sailing with friends and family+food) May open day Film nights and quiz night in spring and autumn | Mike J to organise Uta and Nick M to organise. Ben R to design flier for advertising. All member help to distribute fliers Mike J to organise |
Membership fees | According to RYA and club members monthly direct debit may be a more attractive option than annual membership fee. Dave B confirmed that this should, in theory, be possible. Switch may have implication for Clubs cash flow that need to be carefully considered. | Tessa (Treasurer), Uta and Dave to discuss in more detail for possible implementation in 2019 |
Moving boats | Repair of reservoir has been completed. Many thanks to John O for liaising with TW throughout the process. New scaffolding poles to anchor boats will be put into position during the Spring working party. Many thanks to Tony S for getting us a good deal on poles. Boats will be repositioned asap. Dave B is master minding plans for re-positioning boats. Unused boats may be moved down. | All members to help with anchoring poles Dave B to prepare plans for positioning boats |
Boat shelters | Would be useful to have a video on website. | NM and DB to make video, when weather a bit warmer |
Wooden prize winners board | Need updating | Uta to find out from Glen Cole where and how this was done in the past |
Bird faeces | Spiders work, but are expensive. Dave B working on alternative design | Dave B to make prototype |
RYA training | Ben Kimbell (RYA) visited club to talk about re-instating RTC in 2019. An initial potential SI assessment day is planned for March 19. Potentially interested club members: Gareth G, Nick Marley, Mike J, Jonathan L maybe Dave S Ben K is also visiting on March 5 to talk about club developments Jonathan Leake has organised VHF radio training | Nigel T organising and liaising with interested club members. Nigel T organising |
Organisation of upcoming Opens and Events | Mike J generated a spreadsheet listing all events and responsible people, which will be accessible to all committee members via dropbox Discussion about numbers of volunteers required to run Opens and concerns were raised that this may lead to ‘understaffing‘ of club racing. A compromise was reached: Assign a core team to Opens via duty manager and ‘stock up further‘ by putting out calls for volunteers | Uta to add to dropbox No further action required |
Draft Programme | Gareth is putting final touches on 2018 programme Feva open: new event for 2018 Feva training: requested by RYA March 17 28018 School regatta. Proposed date June 9th Spring 2019 Aero open date is not yet available | MJ organising MJ organising MJ organising Gareth G organising |
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Next meeting | March 2018 | UG to arrange date |