Lake Weed
If you have sailed recently you will have noticed there is floating weed around the slipway and powerboat mooring areas. We are looking for help in pulling this out, if you have time on Sunday morning before racing please come down and help. Bring your wellies!
September Work Parties – Saturday 14th September from 9.30 to 1pm-ish.
The proposed project will be clearing the overgrown areas as you come into the club. There is a safety issue with visibility when driving in but also, we are keen that both potential new members and visitors first sight of the club is one of well-maintained grounds with fantastic views across our brilliant lake and reed beds.
We suggest you bring thick gardening gloves (lots of brambles) pruning/bow saws, loppers, petrol strimmer (if using the latter must use eye and ear protectors). For those who have log burners this is a good opportunity to stock up for winter from this coppicing work.
October Work Parties - One for your diary the October Work-party will be on Saturday, 5 October 9.30-1pm. The project for this one will be to finish off clearing the reclaimed land now the green fence has been moved out to our boundary. This will include cutting back brambles, cutting to ground level old tree stumps, coppicing the last few saplings, filling in rabbit holes, generally making the whole area safe and lawn-mower friendly!
Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any ideas for future work party projects which we can then consider and prioritise against the current list.
Many of you took part in the online training survey in January this year, asking you what training opportunities you'd like for the upcoming 2019 season (adult and youth).
We now have the results and the key points are:
- 57 responses received from 316 members, an encouraging response rate of 18%
- Mostly more recent members (< 5 years) and family members (61%) responding
- Advance notice of courses is really important to members
- Interest in youth racing series
- Top priorities for adult courses: safety boat (48%), Level 3 (30%), PB2 (27%)
- Preferred course format is two Saturdays or series of Saturday afternoons rather than whole weekend
- Top priorities for youth courses: Stage 4 (31%), Stage 3 (28%), Stage 1 and Start Racing (25%)
- More club boats in better working order would be well received
If you have any comments or are interested in seeing the full survey results and analysis, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Looking forward to a great season!