OOD and Safety Boat Duties - Information

Please note: if you would like your duty day to count as a qualifying day for the number of races needed in a series, please put your name on the OOD’s Race Record Sheet.

Officer of the Day (OOD)

Main duties

1. Organise the days’ racing

Set the course with the advice of the safety officer if necessary.

Ensure that the races are started on time.

Call a briefing using the claxon before the start of each race to inform participants of the course, timing of the race and any other necessary points concerning the race.

Record the race results on a Race Record Sheet. At the end of the day, put the record sheet in the appropriate box (on the wall to the right of the kitchen) for Martin Cowell

Telephone or email the results to Ian Cooper ,contact details are on the race record sheet. Ian will liase with the Stafford Newsletter in which they are published.
You can discuss any contentious issues (such as sailors not keeping to the course, borderline weather conditions) with the Safety Officer.

 

2. Oversee the running of the Clubhouse

Please bring along approximately two pints of milk and one or two cakes or equivalent.

Take confectionary and crisps from the refreshments locker to the galley and leave locker open for access to soft drinks.

Remove shutters and place nuts and bolts back in window slots during the day (otherwise they get lost!)

At the end of the day, tidy up and replace food etc in fridge/lockers. Please vacuum the carpet and mop the wet area and kitchen, and replace shutters.

Please take home the day’s rubbish and any recycling if bins are full.

 

Other duties

Arrange for the club banner to be displayed on the fence along the A5 (don’t forget to take it back at the end of the day!)

Issue life jackets as required from the steel lockers in the clubhouse and check that they are returned. Keys for the lockers are in the small wooden timer box in the OOD’s box, spares are in the blockhouse.

Be a point of contact for club members with queries or visitors seeking information.

 

Safety Officer

Main Duties

1. Provide safety boat cover during racing

If appropriate please try to use the ‘second’ jetty for the safety boat – we are trying to reclaim this from the anglers.

Please report any maintenance requirements or faults with the equipment to Lyndon Beasley, safety Boat Coordinator.

2. Advise the OOD on safety issues

Throughout the day (e.g. weather conditions, appropriate courses for the conditions, sailor’s competence etc)

Other Duties

If you have time and safety or subsequent racing will not be compromised, you may provide safety cover for sailors who wish to sail in between the races.

Please leave the garage clean, tidy and secure.

Check that there is enough fuel for the following week.

If safety is not compromised, please help the OOD at the beginning and end of the day with things like window shutters, club banner, tidying the clubhouse etc.