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    Posted: 01 Jun 22 at 4:05pm
What's a small club?
Fab said "if by ‘small’ you mean water acreage, then yes"
SGBA here in South Devon has about 960 humans of all ages on the list.
Being on the Dart we have water from Totnes weir to Dartmouth Castle.
Maybe "small" is to do with the style of organisation.
Do clubs get big when there are paid staff?
We use a paid accountant. We pay to get boats antifouled. Maybe we are now big?
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Small club with twenty acres of water, that's what my club is.
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Originally posted by Riv

What's a small club?
Fab said "if by ‘small’ you mean water acreage, then yes"
SGBA here in South Devon has about 960 humans of all ages on the list.
Being on the Dart we have water from Totnes weir to Dartmouth Castle.
Maybe "small" is to do with the style of organisation.
Do clubs get big when there are paid staff?
We use a paid accountant. We pay to get boats antifouled. Maybe we are now big?


Riv. 960 members and pretty well the navigable length of the River Dart to sail on, is chuffing big in my books whichever way you look at it..😁

but I understand what you are getting at.

We spend a week in Dartmouth every year. I really do envy you

Edited by The Moo - 01 Jun 22 at 5:41pm
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I don't know the size but the smallest area waters I've sailed on is Shotwick.

On some what larger waters, the Norfolk broads have fishing regulations. Not surprisingly many fishermen have never read them .

Fishing, regulation 29.
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) no person shall conduct any
fishing or any associated activity from a power-driven or sailing
vessel which is underway or cause or permit any net or fishing
line to hang from such a vessel into the water whilst the vessel
is underway.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a vessel which is:
(a) engaged in the handling of licensed eel nets; or
(b) under the control of the National Rivers Authority in
connection with its fishery duties.
(3) Any person fishing from a boat or the bank shall show
reasonable consideration to any other person using the
navigation area and shall ensure that his rod or line does not
obstruct the passage of a vessel along a channel.

And regulation 65.

Vessels Engaged in
Fishing
The master of a vessel anchored for the purposes of fishing

shall ensure that:
(a) no part of the vessel shall extend more than 3.8 metres (12
feet 6 inches) into the channel; and
(b) no part of the vessel shall obstruct the passage of any other
vessel; and
(c) outside such times as the Authority may by notice permit
for double or multiple mooring.
.

Why don't fishermen read the regulations? They are navigation regulations 29 and 65 and what has navigation got to do with fishermen?

The one that annoys the fishermen who don't know about it is 29(3)
Many don't realize the whole river is the navigation channel and they have to lift their lines..

Edited by The Q - 01 Jun 22 at 5:50pm
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why don’t fishermen read the rules?

TLDR?
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My English teacher always marked my essays with TLDR, always thought it was better than marks out of ten
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Originally posted by 423zero

Small club with twenty acres of water, that's what my club is.

That’s not small . The Moo and I sail at a club with only eight acres of water. THATS SMALL  Wink Smile. 
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Hydes Road pool, two acres, long and narrow, used to be the home of West Brom sailing club, no facilities, everything kept at a local school, people used to turn up with their gear. Eventually merged with my club and moved.
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Originally posted by 423zero

Hydes Road pool, two acres, long and narrow, used to be the home of West Brom sailing club, no facilities, everything kept at a local school, people used to turn up with their gear. Eventually merged with my club and moved.

Wow that was small . I bet Elon Musk has a swimming pool bigger than that  LOL

Sorry I don’t think I’ve ever asked , where do you sail ? 


Edited by Grumpycat - 02 Jun 22 at 11:38am
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If you want small, try Bradford On Avon SC.
http://www.boasailing.co.uk/

I met a couple of their members a while back, I don't think the yacht they had would fit in the river.
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