Minutes - Sailing Committee Meeting
Date: October 3 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: Uta talked to Mike Storey and he agreed to look after maintenance of Visions in 2019
Try to arrange sessions for TrySailors/other inexperienced club members to crew in Visions needs to be discussed at the sailing committee meeting in early 2019
Mike Storey
All
Fleets
Laser: training session in 2018. Simon tried to organise, but there was limited interest
Aero has email group and may set up face book group. Other fleets to consider similar
Aero fleet is growing. We will have a stand alone aero open
RS200: open wont be combined with another class
RS200: Winter series was a success and will be repeated in 2018/19
Put effort into further growing RS200 fleet through targeted advertising
Solo/Streaker open
RS400/Phantom Open: There was discussion to combine RS200 and RS400 open, but not many in favour.
Phantom open was poorly attended. RS400 open is unlikely to attract large number of participants because local fleet is small
Simon B to gather interest in 2019
Fleet captains to consider
Gareth G to organise
Nick M to organise
Nick M to action
Nick M to give this some thought
Peter Halliday has taken over from Paul P as Solo fleet captain. Peter has negotiated continuation of the Solo open and will liaise with Chris S to agree a date
Uta to approach John O if Phantom open should be organised.
Boat shelters
Would be useful to have a video on website.
Unclear if ‘Zero‘ into one of the existing shelters.
NM and DB to make video, when weather a bit warmer
Alexis to measure
Wooden prize winners board
Need updating. Glen has not responded to Uta's inquiry.
Uta to check with Rob P. Rob has kindly agreed to look into updating the boards
Bird faeces
Spiders work, but are expensive. Dave B working on alternative design
Dave B to make prototype
Scouts
Giles was very supportive of push the boat out event. He also recommended to encourage Scout families to join Friendly Fridays
Mike J to consider Scout families when advertising Friendly Fridays
Organisation of upcoming Opens and Events
Mike J and others to generate one spreadsheet
All to discuss best way to disseminate and update
Events in 2019
(all provisional)
Push the Boat out - May 11
(lessons learnt from 2018 -sign up members on the day and offer fast training opportunities.
Surrey Schools event should be replaced by South East Regional Regatta (or similar) and needs better and more timely advertising
July 7 Commodores Day
Aug 3 Round the Island
Aug 4 No racing (cycling event)
Working Party Oct 27 2019
Working Party Mar 29 2020
Uta and Nick to organise
MJ organising
AOB
Reminders to all race officers to contact team well before the duty
Remind all members about last launch times in summer and winter
Remind duty teams about last launch times in summer and winter
Uta to send email
Uta to send email
Uta to send email
Training courses and RTC
Nigel and Jonathan are working hard on this and will update at the next meeting
Jonathan and Nigel to update
Next meeting
February 12 1930 Club House