Commodores Report August 2011.

 

Thank you all for your confidence and attendance at the AGM or posted proxy votes to elect the Board members and me as your Commodore for 2011-2012.

 

One of our Past Commodores Graham Britt was the Returning officer and did a great job thank you Graham.

 

It was pleasing to have some of the previous Board Members stand again to help keep continuity and with the new Board Members I feel the Club will progress with a benefit to all.

 

I felt even before the meeting a new spirit evident amongst the members and we are looking forward to the new season which should be easier and more productive for the Club.

 

Steve McLennan has put his hand up to help with our website and it has begun to change already, some of the items will include Race Results, Race Calendar Log reports and other interesting items as they come to hand. To submit items they will have to be sent and checked by the Secretary or persons to be named.

 

The new Seasons Blue Book is well under way and remember you have to have a safety check carried out on your Yacht to be able to race, The Accredited Officers are Rex, Bob, 2 Johns and Bret. There have been some course changes to make it for a better Season.

An Off Shore series is listed, we now need to see how many starters we can find and they will run on the Sprint Series days.

 

The first meeting of the new Board is proposed for Tuesday the 6th September 19.30.

 

Several days before the working bee Ken Titmus cleaned the entire carpet and it looks

Great.

 

Working bee Last Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th.

What a fantastic effort put in by the approximate 25 members who participated.

I had my camera to take action shots of the work being done and forgot and had to have some of you pose at your jobs sorry guys.

Saturday was the Big Day with the likes of “VC” Warren Eggins, Garry Forde, Marie directing the members to re-arrange the furniture, clean the fans, stove and other Club house jobs, Mr window cleaner and outspoken person Greg Larond doing a mighty job and when finishing that chore went looking to help others.

Peter Bennet was a great asset after cleaning the fans inside, he was then shang-highed into fixing the front gate post, and while waiting on materials helped fit the new drop bolts onto the dividing fence as well as realign the post with the help of several others

The oil shed was cleaned out and I have no idea who was responsible but a job well done I believe 3 juniors Kyle, Daniel and his friend cleaned up the rear parking area, well done.

The shark cat was anti fouled and other jobs attended to by Brett and Bob I don’t know who else but thank you as well. The garden bed was shortened and old holes filled with concrete, the new rubbing strips were placed on the high wharf, thanks to Fred, Greg and who else helped. The big thanks goes to Noel Garnet his input was outstanding he shortened the garden bed, dismantled the old ramp, he was the master in building the new ramp and had a great assistant in Kelly, Noel certainly likes to take a shot at the new Commodore about the way the new planks were staggered nailed and not straight as he wanted them done

 

From the proposed list only 3 items were not carried out:-

  1. The refitting of the tiles in the lower men’s shower/toilet.
  2. Fitting of auto bilge pump tender.
  3. Painting anti skid paint to starter’s boat floor.

 

Fellows here is the list of your achievements for Saturday

  1. Remove old ramp and fabricate new one.
  2. Fit to rubbing strakes to big wharf piles.
  3. Shorten small garden bed.
  4. Fill to old garden plots with concrete.
  5. Clean boatyard of debris.
  6. Repair dividing fence and realign post.
  7. Anti-foul starter’s boat.
  8. Fit rear motor crash bar.
  9. Repair steering pivots.
  10. Remove front lower tap and plug.
  11. Clean up oil shed.
  12. Remove debris rear parking area.
  13. Tighten step safety post.
  14. Remove front gate and post and realign and re-cement post.
  15. Clean BBQ and install in club.
  16. Disconnect and dispose old BBQ
  17. Clean kitchen and stove.
  18. Re-arrange seating and internal furniture.
  19. Clean windows
  20. Starters flags sorted (not on my list)

 

Sunday

1.      Drill out rivets and re-rivet alloy tender and reseal holes.

2.      Fit correct plank to new ramp.

 

As your new Commodore I thank you all for the magnificent job you all carried out in completing all those tasks listed above. I know some of you may be upset because you have not been named but I know you were there and if it helps you may be in the pictures I took.

Your proud Commodore 

Brian Christenson.