Trip on The Kipper as a charity auction prize?

[jac]

Appreciate the ambiguity re para a) and the friend thing. Interesting debate but think the trial sail thing is red herring. Unless you knew the person already wouldn't you be waiting till offer made before trial sail just to avoid the pleasure trippers??

The key part is para c) if you are raising funds for the school, then somewhere funds will change hands. Someone will give the school money hence para c will fail. You can do it for free but not if money is involved.

 

[Seajet]

I can't help thinking the forum lawyers are having a doodle 5 minutes out here; if it mattered whether a crew was doing something useful or just sitting gazing and enjoying themselves or not: My deck shoes would have steel toecaps, matching curtains would be consigned to Cromwellian history, the average divorce rate would be even higher and club bar friends who enjoy a season then disappear at launch & layup would be prey, from helicopter gunships...

 

[john_morris_uk]

The purpose of the phrase about money changing hands (if I recall the intentions correctly) was more to do with trying to ensure that people didn't charter their boats by some backdoor scheme.

The charity gains the money and so long as your insurance is OK with you taking some people sailing, I don't believe for one moment that you are going to get prosecuted. Don't make a habit of it or people will get suspicious if you do it every week and think that there's a catch. Also, it doesn't mean that you don't have a duty of care to those friends you take sailing. You still need to have some safety equipment and lifejackets etc.

Taking friends sailing (whether you've just met them, or met them in the clubhouse, or met them at the school charity auction) is part of our sport.

I reiterate that I believe that the money changing hands bit was written to stop boats being chartered that were inadequately equipped and unsafe. It was to stop boat unscrupulous owners making money on the side and in a dangerous way. If I recall correctly it was not intended to cover the circumstances described.

 

[Pete R]

Taking friends sailing (whether you've just met them, or met them in the clubhouse, or met them at the school charity auction) is part of our sport.

 

[Hermit]

It just seems a shame that this question has to be asked. The OP is offering something to raise money for his school and potentially give people a whole new experiece. How sad it is that it comes down to who will be liable if something goes wrong.

FWIW I have done eactly what the OP is suggesting on a number of occasions - had some great days out and made some new friends.