Race Team Duties

As a Club run entirely by its members, we depend on all our active sailors volunteering for the duties needed to provide a safe and enjoyable sailing programme. We understand that not every member may be able to undertake on-the-water duties, so our approach is:

• To encourage all members who are able to do so to volunteer for at least 2 race duties – either as Assistant Race Officer or in a Safety Boat role or, if they feel competent, as the Race Officer.

• To expect members who race regularly to volunteer for at least 3 duties. Regular racers should aim to become competent in the Race Officer role and the Club will facilitate this by providing training and a "mentor", if requested. We need more Race Officers.

Please sign up using the duty roster which can be accessed via the members' portal. A description of the roles required is shown below and training sessions on these are provided each season. There is a downloadable guide on how to use our duty system here.

All regular race helms should feel able to volunteer as Race Officers and a pool of "mentor ROs" is available to provide support to anyone tackling the role for the first time who would find this helpful. Just contact the Sailing Team.

It's really important that volunteers for all roles report to the club house a minimum of 90 minutes before the advertised start time for racing.

Instructions for all of these roles can be downloaded via the links shown in the Table above.

Last updated 08:34 on 7 September 2019