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You need a great committee all pulling their weight, short meetings and growing any club as the priority, none of us are getting any younger.

Ir depends on what the club needs... Is it running well, healthy membership, or on the slide? in the first case, a safe pair of hands who has an air of authority and sets the "atmosphere". If it's the second, you need a change agent with ideas to reverse the downward cycle. In the first case, probably a member of the existing committee, in the second possibly a new broom...

Been playing around with multihulls for some time now; various configurations of cats and tri's. Here is latest effort and was intended to use an old One Metre hull with a "bolt on" conversion to a lightweight trimaran. Not a new idea, I know. Paul Goddard has an excellent version based on the DF95. Anyway, a few pics of what can be achieved with simply printed floats and a few printed brackets. Boat can be sailed conventionally as a One Metre: remove the fin and ballast, clip on the hulls, connect the longer rudder and just sail as a trimaran (will need a stub fin as a centreboard) Or add foils to the outboard brackets and try foiling. This is Mini40 legal but a bit shorter than the max allowed and a tad more convenient. Weighs in at just under 2Kg all up sailing weight. I have not sanded the printed floats and they are printed in 4 parts. This set was assembled with thickened epoxy, hence the visible joints. I have printed another pair and joined with clear epoxy and will retro fit these after fully testing. I do not intend to have this measured or propose any "minor" rule amendments to make this legal. Just a good way to use an old IOM hull and have some fun.

Taking Darin’s question first… What attracts me to an event is knowing that the underfoot conditions are sound, that access is reasonably straightforward and that I will have mates there. Poole would have been perfect for me (and yes ok it is my home club too) but I broke my shoulder the four days before it started. I go to events because they are fun - I’d love to do well but if I don’t make a fool of myself, I’ll be happy. why don’t I go to more? They need to be within a get there and back within a day distance (which for me means not much beyond Brum) and sadly there seem to be few events near the south coast (yes thanks Gosport and Poole). We do a have a plan to travel further so hopefully that will happen. Can I just say thanks to those clubs that do organise events - I don’t think I’ve ever been to a bad one.

It was flooding at our club, and the water table is still high. And so postponed but now back on, welcome to HRYC!! other factors ..£££ travel costs time and other factors we are all getting older less inclined to drive maybe? ……….. But I have been to 3 non club events this year already, from Norwich to CHF to Manor and all great events!! it is frustrating that there seems to be nothing on from now to late sept to travel to, From a helm with wandering tendencies ( many in the club would agree)