Barnt Green Sailing Club - Rear Commodore's H & G section

A brief report on the 2008 spring work parties

The old and the new.  Rear Commodore Bob Allen, helped by John Preston, made two new doors for the green sailboard store and signing on shed. Here we see one fitted and the other door will be fitted soon. An excellent and very professional job was made and these replacement doors should last us a very long time. While this was going on Adrian Savage and George Puttock were busy cutting out and replacing rotton planks at the rear of the shed. An awkward job by the look of it yet the finished job, subject to painting green later on, came out very well indeed. See below...In the meantime, Gordon Padmore and Stuart Howe made a splendid job of re-lining the inside of the OOD box with plywood, a most impressive improvement.  Elsewhere, during the two work party days, many other jobs were carried out by a fairly small but dedicated group of members. See below left....

In addition, Richard Easton and Robin Brown, armed with chain saws and helped by Jill Easton, Bill Tucker and Bruce ???, spent several hours on the north shore cutting back tree re-growth and clearing areas of scrub under the terms of our farm stewardship scheme, all part of the requirements imposed by Natural England and the E.A.  A benefit of this to sailors is the reduction in wind shadow when this is the windward shore.

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2008 Work Party Information.  The working parties this spring, on Sunday March 9th and Saturday the 15th will continue to attend to various jobs, many of them listed on last years list, see below. Rear Commodore Bob Allen has been organising the tasks with the help of the Commodore, Brian Allen.  Please try to help your club and join in the fun by attending. Contact Brian via the contacts page for more information.

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2007 archive follows.

Many of the jobs undertaken in the spring were completed although much still needs to be done.  The outstanding achievement last autumn was the complete re-building of the junior slipway.  Many people deserve thanks for this but none more so than Stuart Howe and Bob Allen who gave up a great deal of their time to work on and oversee the project.  Pictures HERE 

Messages from the 2007 Commodore:- 

(Posted 17th October 2007)

Dear Member,       I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped last Sunday (14th) at the working party, it was a good turnout and a great deal was achieved.  However, there are still a number of jobs to finish ready for sailing so if you were not able to help last Sunday please try and support your club this Saturday 20^th from 10am onwards.  Remember the only way voluntary clubs can run is with the help and support of members so please do your bit and give a few hours to help on Saturday.

Kind regards,       Stuart.    Commodore

(Posted 8th October 2007)

Tarmacing Drive ( "Howe’s Highway" – Admin.!  Pictures HERE ) and Autumn Work Parties.

Members will also be pleased to hear that the contractors will be repairing potholes and the road way edge on our main access road, the bridleway, during week commencing 15th October.

Sunday 14^th and Saturday 20^th October 2007 

It is planned that the contractor will be tarmacing our driveway in front of the boat sheds during the week beginning 8th October. I am sure you will all be pleased to here the news as I have seen many members walking gingerly over the stones. If you need to remove boats or trailers please do it before Monday 8^th Oct as access may be restricted during that week. It is expected the work will take approximately 5 days subject of course to the weather.  (Forecast looks good !)

Our work Party dates this year are Sunday 14^th Oct. when there will be no club sailing  and Saturday 20^th Oct.  Please support at least one of these dates as we have a number of important tasks to achieve. We start around 10am and usually finish about 4pm if you can only make a couple of hours it will all help, should you wish to tackle a particular job please ring Bob Allen ( Tel :   0121 445 3165) who will pencil your name against your choice.

Thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing you on one of the dates.

Stuart

Commodore

Autumn Work Party Jobs include..........

Clubhouse inside

1/  Replace glaze, paint and hang new door in gents changing room

2/  Paint ceiling white satin in bay window

3/  Paint block walls in main club room

4/  Paint door frames white gloss

5/  Clean Bar & paint ceiling white satin

6/  Clean Showers

Clubhouse outside

1/  Clear guttering, repair leak

2/  Sadolin wooden cladding at kitchen end

3/  Trim lower branches on tree by clubhouse

Old Clubhouse

1/  Replace rotten roof over the end door

2/  Clean out room and clean windows

3/  Clean out and repair guttering

OOD Box

1/  Replace unsafe floor patch

2/  Proof outside floor

Rib Shed

1/  Repair door

2/  Remove rotten branches from tree behind shed

Bosuns Shed and Jaffa shed

1/ Repaint doors with preservative.

Foreshore

1/  Complete underpinning

2/  Clear broken slabs and broken concrete put at far end by fence

3/  Clear grass from slipways and fill any cracks

4/  Fix new non-slip surface to jetty

Pathway

1/  Concrete and make good paving adjoining new pathway

2/  Fill in sides with soil grass seed

3/  Complete drainage to foreshore

Break up rotten boats and other rubbish into skip please make sure your boat is identified if it is in a bad state and you want to keep it !!!!!!!!!

Check and replace Buoy ropes 5 to 9

General maintenance of rescue boats   (George Puttuck Bosun & Dick Wallace)