Beginners Training on April 8, 10:00-16:00
- 7 people signed up; maximum of 8 people
- Boats: Tom, Richard, Cathy Lam, Joe
- Food: Anne - chili w/rice for 14-15
- Instructors:Jimmy Shum, Richard Carrey, Steve Wallace, Tom Nunan, Joe Shieh
- Agenda: safety briefing-Steve, theory-Jimmy, dry land- Richard
Lloyds Race - April 15 (changed from 16th)
- Paddlers involvement--need to work out how to manage race
- Tom to develop more ideas
- Food-- Anne to determine which caterer, Tim Bredbury or Philippe or ??
Sokos - April 29/30
- Race or social sail?
- Hope for 10 boats: Steve W, Richard C, Steve L,
- Maybe: Pietro, Clara, Ed, Benjamin/Jimmy, Steve P, Craig, Hamish
- Ah Wah and his Dad booked -- Tom
- DBYC -- need to carry ice, food and carry gear for LBC
- Possibility of LBC stopping at Cheung Chau for lunch on Satuday, otherwise bring food on board if wind is too light
Hut
- Trees are marked for cutting, but Ken said HKR can't do it now do to public opinion.
- Alternative plan to prioritize the replacement of the huts which may not need additional concrete or tree cutting
- Can we concrete behind the hut to fit the showers near path
- Task re-assigned to Weels; Craig needs to transition the project
Beach Update
- Tie downs need to be updated
- Consider tying the boat blocks to the tie down ropes
- Beach maintenance guy needs a ladder -- ask Weels to make it happen
Sunshine Island - May 21
- Grace and Joanne managing food and logistics
- Self-cooking or catering TBD
Dragon Boat - May 31
- First training - April 2, 11:30-12:30
- How to manage non-members vs members conflicts over paddling on the day of the race
- LBC members must turn up for at least one practice to guarantee their seat on race day
- Non-members will be allocated a space if seats available on the day
Paddlers
- Anyone who paddles needs to be a LBC canoe member family = $1200, singles= $900, joining fee = $1250
- Outrigger team want to take over Team Fear Dragon Boat
- Discussion about annual charges for Dragon Boat determined to be = $5000
- Anyone can paddle no need to join club
- Have not received social fees or joining fees from a number of outrigger paddlers
- Small dragon boat owner Nial Greenan -- boat parking ($1000) + canoe member ($900)
- Should outriggers be charged for boat parking and then social membership?
- Currently have 20+ canoe members, 5 who actually own a canoe
Regatta
- HKR have signed up for regatta in 2006 @$50,000
- Meeting with HKR on April 12, to work out details
- Lloyds TSB also sponsor @$16,000
- Stormy's - Richard will ask them for $20K
- Grappa's/El Grande - back-up plan if Stormy's fall through
- Perrier - don't want them back, never delivered Perrier
- Anne has been working on a lot of sponsorship activities for South Island school will provide some susggestions of new sponsors
Advertising
- A non-member wants to advertise on web site -- $8,000 -- Steve will determine state of boat see if it is in good condition, we will allow
- a good condition boat to be advertised as a service to the members; not a poor quality boat.
