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Oli 
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 Topic: professional patrol boat drivers and race officersPosted: 16 Jan 14 at 3:57pm |
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Which clubs use one or both of these?
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RichTea
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Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 7:38pm |
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What do you class as professional?
I am an RYA a Race coach and a Safety boat driver!
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PeterG
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Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 9:00pm |
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What do you class as professional? |
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Quagers
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Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 11:08pm |
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Derwent SC have pro safety cover
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jeffers
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Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 7:54am |
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I believe Grafham and Draycote have paid rescue/safety boat drivers.
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Oli
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Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 9:17am |
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thanks everyone thats replied, to clarify i talking about not having volunteers do patrol boat duty but hired guns instead.
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gordon
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Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 12:30pm |
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In France the carreer structure for professionals in clubs and sailing centres mean that they are expected to operate as instructors, coaches, patrol drivers, mark layers, assistant race officers, boat repairers, administrators, salesmen.... and if they want to stay in employment they have to be friendly, enthusiastic and diplomatic.
But they are paid a living wage and can get promotion to managerial roles. Race officials are usually volunteers - but in France where the concept of club racing does not exist - any race officer would be expected to have a federal qualification. |
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 1:11pm |
Correct for Draycote, however we still have two duties to do per year + the usual working party b**locks for volunteering types to pick up the litter blown in from joe public's cycle around the lake and summer picnic... France sounds good.
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gordon
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Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 1:14pm |
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Except that it only works because up till very recently the French accepted the idea that paying taxes was a good idea. Much of the funding for sport comes from local authorities.
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yellowwelly
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I think most folks think tax is fundamentally a good social concept. I guess what frustrates a lot of people is the seemingly wasteful nature in which it gets spent. I'd probably lump propping up a sailing scene for privileged kids in with that.
My own point of view is that a sailing centre offering open meeting style racing could be a very interesting concept... run by professional staff, run as a business and offering training and boat leases as part of the package. Naturally monday to friday it would look for institution based sales channels, but that's no different from a ski centre, swimming pool or bowling alley. I certainly think it would suit the more time sensitive sailors out there, although I do accept that the cliquey clubby-ness that sits so awkwardly with socks n' sandals would probably suffer. No great shame imho... but everyone's different.
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