Greystones Sailing Club Annual General Meeting 2 nd

Greystones Sailing Club Annual General Meeting 2 nd December 2016

Commodore’s Report • Membership • Club Activities • Safety • New Clubhouse

Membership 2016 • Membership up 66% on 2015 • Family membership up 50% on 2015 • Ordinary membership up 29% on 2015 • Highest membership in last 7 years • Growth across all membership classes

Membership 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Ordinary 45 35 36 29 33 30 30 Family 63 42 30 37 40 40 45 Student 6 4 9 - - Junior 49 43 38 41 41 42 43 Pavilion 55 11 8 9 8 11 12 Trysail 13 5 - - - Senior 8 5 4 - - Honorary 3 3 - - - Corporate 4 - - - Country 1 1 - - - TOTAL 247 149 125 116 122 123 130

Membership Review • 247 ‘People’ are now members of the club. - Target to increase membership by 30 % was achieved - Trysail continued in 2016 (13 new members joined, 5 new members in 2015) - Sailing continued throughout Autumn - Trysail night. Over 70 people attended (new and existing members) - Keelboats numbers have gone up 60% since last year - Taste of Greystones Regatta had over 100 boats registered - Club profile up - Whatsapp setup across different fleets - Facebook used to promote and encourage sailing - Website continues to be improved with further enhancements planned next year - Club participated in St Patricks Day event - Contact / Liaison person - Commodore and Vice Commodore continue to be actively involved in membership recruitment.

Club Activities - Keelboats • 27 boats championship 2016 (2015 - 17, 2014 - 8). 60% increase Yo. Y • Average 3 full memberships per boat • Provided extensive support to rescue roster • 111 boats raced in 2016 for Taste of Greystones Regatta. Another 15 boats raced in feeder races • 34 boats for open RNLI race (18 in 2015) • Lot more boats in marina – Will continue to encourage them to race

Club Activities - Social • St Patricks Day • Commodore, Official Opening • ‘Supper by the Sea’ – 1 st Friday of the month • Club and Ladies Regatta • Taste of Greystones Regatta • GSC Themed Evenings (Ottoman, Mardi Gras) • Winter Wednesday Sailing Talks • Club Dinner …and Santa!

Club Activities - Training • Junior training course (JTC) – Another very successful year – Significant contributor to club Year # Trainees surplus 2009 110 • Cara na Mara trainee weeks 324 2010 108 321 2011 118 343 2012 112 276 2013 111 234 2014 141 302 2015 148 324 2016 193 366 – This has been very successful with the numbers more than doubling – from 23 to 29

Club Activities – Trysail • Adult – 1 weekend – 20 participants • Encouraged to repeat training • Sailing with members organized • Keelboat experience – 13 became members – Follow up programme was very well received – They have their own Whatsapp Group!

Club Juniors

Club Juniors • The overall numbers have risen on the Sundays • Over 40 juniors on the water on several Sundays and a total of 43 boats competing in the Junior Championship. • This participation by Junior sailors this helped introduce a number of new adult sailors in the latter part of the season to dinghy sailing.

Club Juniors • The level of training on offer to juniors with Sunday training and Feva & RS 200 clinics and a number of junior sailors undertook the powerboat courses. • Sunday prizes was good with 30 awarded to juniors. • Keelboat Friday was a great success a lot of the juniors enjoyed it and introduced some of them to keelboat sailing for the first time.

Club Juniors • JTC – numbers up on the main training courses and Cara Na Mara with the mid-week Feva Champions a great success. • To keep momentum on the Sunday sailing - the weather deprived us of 5 Sundays from 13, next year we propose to re-commence back earlier in August. • Equipment reliability was an issue an assessment of needs and a replacement plan needs to be devised to improve the equipment reliability. • The Junior championships will stay on Sundays with a better processing of results and prizes from the previous week after Sunday sailing

Club Racing Dinghy & Keelboat Series; • Spring Series • Championship Series • Wednesday Series • Autumn Series • Turkey Shoot

Club Racing Spring Series • 13 Keelboats racing in 5 races • 22 dinghies, including 6 Juniors raced 10 races Wednesday Series • 22 Keelboats sailed 15 races • 34 Dinghies including 9 Juniors contested 13 Races

Club Racing Saturday Championship Series • 22 Keelboats contested 15 races • 31 Dinghies including 9 Juniors participated in 34 Races Sunday Junior series • 49 actual participants partaking in 23 races Autumn Series • 19 keelboats mixed it up in 4 races • 18 Dinghies including 3 juniors fought it out in 9 races

Club Racing Turkey shoot – ongoing • 15 Keel boats contesting Regattas and one off events • Taste of Greystones Regatta • GSC Dinghy Regatta 29 participants including 10 Juniors • RNLI Keelboat race 34 competitors • Junior Regatta 21 entrants • Feva Regatta • RS Southern regatta

Club Racing A truly active and wonderful season of sailing at GSC in 2016 • Total of 130 races, not including regattas and special events. • Great participation and enjoyment • Only possible through the participation and willingness of all members who volunteer their time and effort to make it work.

On The Water Roster Policy 2016 aims to encourage fairness & competition • Duties will be supported by: • sailors active in the series • keelboat fleet and • willing non-sailing members as advised by the membership and Executive Committee. • Individual member on water duties for season to be kept to an absolute minimum • Every attempt will be made to roster competitors equally • Where necessary, a RIB will be equipped for use as a Committee boat and safety.

Upskilling opportunities will be identified in the New Year for: – Powerboat – RO & Race management – National Judges Course training – Mark Laying – Shoremaster (early in season) – Assistant ROs will be trained ‘on the job’ - it’s not rocket science and GSC is not Rio 2016

GSC Safety • New Safety Officer appointed in 2016 • Review of equipment, policies and procedures manual to meet ISA Training Centre Standards • Updating of risk assessment areas relevant to new clubhouse, club and harbour pens, route to harbour & beach • Purchase of extensive range of new First Aid materials and new watertight safey boxes for RIBs • 2017 – Safety tips to keepboat skippers. MOB drill • RIBs (ongoing reliability issues

Safety Review • • • There are inherent dangers in our sport whether from weather, sea, human error or accident. The Club continuously works towards identifying and managing that risk and mitigating harm that may result, but incidents still happen and lessons are learnt. Successive committees continue to build on experience, to update and expand our policies to reflect changes in environment, facilities and equipment. Our instructors too are instilled with a ‘safety first’ principle which is overseen by both an experienced SI and the training manager. We will review these policies every year, as every line is written with consideration, to ensure best practice and assure the safety of all our members.

New Clubhouse & Pen • • Access to new clubhouse in May Official opening in June by Simon Harris TD New Steel Shed for Pen New ‘tie downs’ installed in pen for Dinghies Water and hose points across the pen Dinghy ‘spaces’ marked out Electricity and Water to be installed in Steel Shed

Clubhouse Management • New membership target 30% achieved • Participation target 70% • “House Committee” in place • Updated Usage policy for events • Artefacts to be donated to new clubhouse

Thank You