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RCC cruises planned this coming year.

Rather looking forward to the Holland Cruise .

OG is organising the St Kats trip and why on earth anybody would want to go to Burnham on Crouch mid winter is mystery to me.
Memories of hiding inside the cabin watching the horizontal Essex sleet slide down the boat windows still haunt my dreams.
 
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RCC cruises planned this coming year.

Rather looking forward to the Holland Cruise .

OG is organising the St Kats trip and why on earth anybody would want to go to Burnham on Crouch mid winter is mystery to me.
Memories of hiding inside the cabin watching the horizontal Essex sleet slide down the boat windows still haunt my dreams.
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Would have liked that to put up on the website. You must be in the inner circle
 
Only two people worth investing time getting to know in any club..
The barman / galley staff and critically whoever is in charge of allocating the moorings ?
They are the first and only people who actually have any idea of what is going on, the rest of the club members merely start unfounded rumours or simply embellish old ones.


Have a theory that the majority of any boat club committee only finally grasp what they were actually were supposed to be doing shortly before being voted out of office ?
The best bit is handing over all the paperwork to the keen new victim bloke, while promising faithfully that if ever he needs any help ............
Previous committee members can always be found hiding in the furthest corner of the hall doing their best to remain unobserved clutching a stiff glass of something while shaking their heads.

It just boils down to the ability to get a drink when you are in the third row at the bar and importantly a mooring that is not in the "Gulag" at the far end of the pontoons.
The observant might also observe that any section of the moorings with large proportion of committee members tends to have all the safety lights working, the most recently replaced teak decking and to have very short walk to bar.
 
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oldgit said:
Only two people worth investing time getting to know in any club..
The barman / galley staff and critically whoever is in charge of allocating the moorings ?
They are the first and only people who actually have any idea of what is going on, the rest of the club members merely start unfounded rumours or simply embellish old ones.


Have a theory that the majority of any boat club committee only finally grasp what they were actually were supposed to be doing shortly before being voted out of office ?
The best bit is handing over all the paperwork to the keen new victim bloke, while promising faithfully that if ever he needs any help ............
Previous committee members can always be found hiding in the furthest corner of the hall doing their best to remain unobserved clutching a stiff glass of something while shaking their heads.

It just boils down to the ability to get a drink when you are in the third row at the bar and importantly a mooring that is not in the "Gulag" at the far end of the pontoons.
The observant might also observe that any section of the moorings with large proportion of committee members tends to have all the safety lights working, the most recently replaced teak decking and to have very short walk to bar.
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As a new member at the club, as of last week not the newest though, I find I am uncomfortably close to the club house and the parking, I would rather have a slightly larger berth even if it was further away :)
 
On all club pontoons , the good and most coverted moorings soon become apparent even to the clubs newest members.
These will be in the "Goldilocks Zone", ie. ease of access for boat departure and arrival and usually occupied since Nelsons time by long term members with only a short stroll up to the facilities ashore.These rarely move.

There is a small yacht club nearbye where the moorings closest to the club premises are reserved for more senior members.
These are of course usually virtually devoid of craft, the moorings for more junior members however (located on the far side of the river ) are of course well populated. :)
 
oldgit said:
On all club pontoons , the good and most coverted moorings soon become apparent even to the clubs newest members.
These will be in the "Goldilocks Zone", ie. ease of access for boat departure and arrival and usually occupied since Nelsons time by long term members with only a short stroll up to the facilities ashore.These rarely move.

There is a small yacht club nearbye where the moorings closest to the club premises are reserved for more senior members.
These are of course usually virtually devoid of craft, the moorings for more junior members however (located on the far side of the river ) are of course well populated. :)
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Viva la Révolution ...when the proletariat finally get a decent place for their yachts !!
 
sharpness said:
Looks a good varied cruising schedule. Nice to see your club makes a good effort with the cruising activities (y)
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Have of course arranged for a series of slow moving High Pressure weather systems to track across the southern UK from April to October.
Regretably this will result in low clouds and wind across the "Med" as all the low pressure systems remain stationary to the South.
Somebody has to take one for the team. ?
 
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