KKC committee meeting

Minutes 15.04.2011

Present: Alan Gough, Lorna Sherwood, Bridget Oates, Kev Theaker, Neil Macdonald,

George McMillan, Joe Gladston, Gregor MacQuarrie, Maurice Cathcart, Russell

Cathcart

1. The river course started on April 3rd but there were only 3 paddlers. Hopefully

there will be a few more the coming week and if not the course will be cancelled. The

plan is to cover surf and river and sea this year.

AG/JW

2. Summer sea paddling from Doonfoot will start the Tuesday after Easter 26th April

LS

3. There will be a summer BBQ at Sawney Bean’s cave

this didn’t happen due to the poor weather

4. The Tayvallich weekend will be July 23rd

5. Slalom – there are two very good club boats and four SCA boats. There are 14

paddlers of different ages, sizes and abilities. Russell and Graeme are doing a lot of

coaching and most of the paddlers have done very well. Many are now at least

division 3. Folk tend to want more time in the ‘better’ boats. The committee discussed

how best to manage this and it was agreed that Maurice and Russell would draft a set

of rules for managing the expanding number of slalom paddlers in training and

competition and bring it back to committee for discussion. This would include

responsibility for club kit while on the water and an acceptable skill level at which the

club boats would be available for use. It was suggested thjat these issues could be

discussed with other clubs who have been active in slalom for longer to see how they

manage these issues.

MC/RC

6. Kev gave a summary of club finance.

The club took about £2.5K in membership and pool fees as usual

Payment to the Citadel for the pool, courses and maintenance is £2.1K. This includes

£275 for the Lochwinnoch 2* training and £440 instructor training for Neil and

George.

There is about £4.8K in the bank

WWS+R course in May will cost £35 for each of 12 participants (50% paid so far)

Alan will get a quote for the trailer to be fixed

We still need air bags for the slalom boats. Lomo have none.

7. Affiliation – Lorna has a membership database. The plan is to redesign the

membership form for the start of the pool sessions so that it can all be done on line.

Jeremy, Lorna and Kev will form a subcommittee to look at this. LS/JW/KT

8. 2* consolidation – working towards 2* assessment. We need to plan in advance to

consolidate and assess, maybe using Loch Doon. Hence we need the trailer fixed to

get people and kit to these locations.

AG/JW

Bridget Oates September 22nd 2011