A Compassionate Plea for the White Water Paddler

[Diarmuid]

Kate Barry please stand up

[Maryanne]

[Eoghan]

2"Equipment Issues" From Section 11 of the Safety Form

The club runs up to grade 3 water. Therefore, no club member may use club equipment on a higher grade of water.

"The club runs up to grade 3 water primarily. Therefore, no club member may use club equipment on a higher grade of water without being subject to special consideration."

ah thats the spanner! but yeah i don't imagine there would be any problem with the blue alteration in next years safety report. Because people running grade 4 in club gear would be unusual and a special consideration. That line is more correct really...I really like it... 

[Bill C]

Regarding "You break it you bought it", consideration needs to be given to wear and tear too: club gear running more extreme rivers will result in a greater rate of gear damage. Whilst this is inevitable to a certain extent, people are less likely to report -say- a heavy impact to a club helmet than they are a hole in a boat. Members borrowing club gear for more difficult rivers would need to be conscientious about reporting all damage, not just if they holed a boat.

[Kater]

Kate Barry please stand up

Sorry Diarmuid I'm useless to the club here - 'fraid my kind of law knowledge is limited to human rights.  I might be useful if we found somebody detained and tortured inside the boathouse though...

[Tiny Tim]

Kate Barry please stand up

Sorry Diarmuid I'm useless to the club here - 'fraid my kind of law knowledge is limited to human rights.  I might be useful if we found somebody detained and tortured inside the boathouse though...

nah i dont have a boathouse key anymore

[Peter O'Sullivan]

Any chance we could all just agree to call Jacksons grade 3+, not 4?

On the cost side of things. A full set of new gear costs about 2500.  The cost of running a car is about 2500 per year, transport is where the real cost of paddling is.