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Captain Morgan
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Topic: Club Duties - How many? Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:19pm |
I will be at a meeting later this week, and I need to raise one issue with regards to club duties. I'd like to be able to back this up with some numbers, namely how many duties (rescue boat/Race Officer/bar) would you guys expect to do at a member-run sailing club? We have about 650 members, who are supposed to volunteer to do duties, and only sail (organised events) April-November, with - on average - two racing days per week. I've had a look through some club websites, and it seems to be typical to do four duties per year... I think that I did 15 duties in 2008 |
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:28pm |
It varies between 1 and 4 at our club as official duties, but some people will always end up filling in more if others don't show. But 15? That would be most of my club sailing weekends...
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Merlinboy
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:30pm |
At Tewkesbury i do 1 race office and 2 bar At bowmoor, you can pay a fee to be excluded from the duties.
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The Moo
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:31pm |
I belong to a small club on a small water with less than 100 members. We sail Sunday through the year and Saturday PM Spring through Autumn and Wednesdays in the Summer. Our duty officers probably do around 6 a year. Duty Committees probably 8. Race officers might do slightly less It is quite a committment, but at the recruiting stage we tell prospective members what to expect and why it is so.
It doesn't appear to be a barrier to recruiting and we are certainly not plagued with no shows. We have a rota manager who schedules duties approx 6 weeks in advance and it's down to individuals to arrange swaps when required. generally works well. I love my Club but I think I might wince a bit at 15 given that I do other stuff for the Club as a committee member! |
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Graham T
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:32pm |
Two duties per year but we do generally only club race
on Sundays. Having said that if you are at the club most of the time then you do end up doing more to cover the no shows....... |
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Guest
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:33pm |
At Whitstable we do 1 duty, ROD, recorder or rescue boat. But open meetings are manned in addition to this so most of the more active/better sailors do an additional 1 or 2 to help with opens and nationals. Then we have a smaller group who do loads more and without whome the club would struggle to function. |
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Captain Morgan
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:36pm |
I have to admit that I do sail as much as I can, and 15 duties includes 2 bar duties, plus 2 voluntary stand-ins. But regular racers do seem to end up doing about 10 safety boat duties. I just thought that it would be useful to know how this compares to other clubs with fairly intense racing (owing to the short season).
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Mikey 14778
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:43pm |
We have about 650 members and we do one duty every 8 months (ish). Plus any open meeting duties that your fleet(s)
drag you into. But this is only a race officer duty - we don't have to do canteen, bar or safety boat. If we had to do those things I guess we'd be doing a lot more. |
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jlecou
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:53pm |
At Aldenham SC all members do 1.5 to 2 duties per year for the Sunday series March to Dec (ODD + three support/rescue). In addition there is a 10 sunday winter series which is manned by the participants - one duty each. And a 20 night wednesday evening series again manned by the participants. Open meetings and a couple of other special days are done by class captains & volunteers...
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jlecou
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 09 at 1:55pm |
Forgot to add that we now use DutyMan to co-ordinate the OOD rota which seems to be a success! See www.dutyman.biz/
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