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    Posted: 02 Jul 17 at 11:46am
Motto may not be needed, 
water supply to club been reduced for weeks now, finally stopped flowing last week.
Council say water pipe at least half a mile long, not sure when it can be repaired or replaced, but it wont be any time soon.
Sea cadets regatta cancelled yesterday, no sailing for foreseeable future.
Major Blue/green algae outbreak too.
Supposed to be harmless to humans but fatal for dogs.
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Posts: 2538 		Post Options Post Options   Quote turnturtle Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jul 17 at 9:27am
sounds bad.... but this might be the motivation you need to do what some might say you probably should've done by now already.  My only advice for the little it's worth: don't look back, only forwards and to the silver linings this situation presents.
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Posts: 3420 		Post Options Post Options   Quote 423zero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jul 17 at 5:22pm
TT, 
I have already put out feelers, need a club that accepts eccentric boats. 
Mirror only boat I have that is still current.
What a mistake donating Ent to club.
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They probably wouldn't have reasonable grounds for complaint if you claimed it back?
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Posts: 3420 		Post Options Post Options   Quote 423zero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jul 17 at 8:37pm
They have certainly had a bargain.
Members who need a two hander, use Ent.
Bahia's hardly used, easier to rig Ent, and probably half the weight.
Would be a bit churlish to ask for it back.
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Posts: 3401 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Sam.Spoons Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jul 17 at 10:38pm
A fair and honourable sentiment (and I totally get why they prefer it to a modern plastic boat). Maybe just be let it known that you would like it back if the club should no longer have a use for it?

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Just an aside, I was chairman of a windsurfing club for many years. A few years ago, after I moved on, they had an issue with the drinking water supply (from a hydro-ram in a stream up the hill and treated with a chlorination plant..... surprisingly low tech and way cheaper than piping water up there). The landlord (our local water company, as the lake was a drinking water reservoir) had a duty to provide drinking water so had to ship bottled water up to the club until they resolved the supply issues. I'm not sure if it was a condition of the lease (most likely), something enshrined in the law relating to landlords or simply part of their being a water company.

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We are long term squatters, when the Coal board pulled out, the abandoned brown field site that was left behind, was lawless, club moved into what was the bathhouse, canteen, on site medical facilities etc, stole railings from other parts of site to form boat park etc, recycled really.
Several years passed before someone eventually decided site needed managing, they all assumed we were legit, never paid a penny in rent or rates, 30 odd years now.
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Originally posted by 423zero

We are long term squatters, when the Coal board pulled out, the abandoned brown field site that was left behind, was lawless, club moved into what was the bathhouse, canteen, on site medical facilities etc, stole railings from other parts of site to form boat park etc, recycled really.
Several years passed before someone eventually decided site needed managing, they all assumed we were legit, never paid a penny in rent or rates, 30 odd years now.

that sir, is a level of dinghy sailing parsimony that is so genius it surpasses all others!!!  

Are you and RYA affiliated club???


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I am truly impressed.  Thumbs Up A club like that must not be allowed to die.......
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