Club motto

You'd always be welcome at Midland SC down the road...!

We're racing Saturdays from 13:30, so feel free to come past if you want to have a look & chat to people!

It's a problem, 'committee syndrome' once they feel a certain sense of power, they become secretive sometimes even develop a bunker mentality which leads obviously to exclusion from the rest of the member ship. Bad committees kill clubs, total transparency is the only answer and a totally open and welcoming attitude to all. Sadly not the way with typical Brit middle management syndrome that often seems to pervade those unused to decision making power and responsibility without referall to a higher level.

We're the same, Commodore gets min 2, max 3 year term then change, not that I could possibly imagine anyone wanting to do more than three years, it drove me to the brink of giving up the entire sport, dealing with a club full of morons coupled to nimbys and only a few decent racing members,.


Edited by iGRF - 05 Jul 17 at 3:15pm

Originally posted by JimC But shouldn't the club be there for the morons and nimbys as well as the decent racing members if they all pay their subs and turn out for their duties?

If you ask me, then in an ideal world no, it would only be for bona fide racing members, we've always been a racing club. So no I wouldn't let sunny day once or twice during the summer cruising types bung up the boat park, nor would I have all the 'social' types who just want to use the place as a cheap Beach hut to change their kids, make their own tea, filthy up the galley and leave crap everywhere for our racers wives and girlfriends to clear up.
Or the SUP riders, Open water swimmers, cyclists and other water related dross we appear to have opened our doors to in order to buoy up membership fees. I'd probably even ban windsurfers unless they raced on a tuesday, they're a bloody selfish self centred lot, like kiters, no contribution from them other than swishing in front of the club on windy days posing., they'd watch you struggling to recover a boat and walk away.

Nope ban em all.

Edited by iGRF - 05 Jul 17 at 4:11pm