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cormac:
This debate has waged ever since I can remember.

It benefits the club to let people go paddling on extra-curricular trips, as they develop their paddling/rescue skills.  It also benefits the club to have a stock of good gear that hasn't been thrashed/lost on private trips or remained in people's back gardens after the trip.  So if people were reasonable with and respected the gear that they get to borrow, then the club has respected that and is reasonable in lending the gear.

Everyone's a winner!

 :D

wackers:
At last the comittee have risen from the ashes of impeachment and shown them selves to be worthy of any comittee in any government.
How better to solve a problem than by intorducing forms and redtape.
Will we need to fill out the form in triplicate and do I keep the blue sheet or the yellow one and do I need to get it stamped before submitting it or do I just get my copy stamped.
Perhaps you could publish a handbook or guide to the use of said form or do we need a form to apply for the guide.

jesus_jones:
In reality i think that private trips have been authorised or simply overlooked because they have been run safely with no damage to club gear and with rescue or with paddlers of a significant ability and that the committee are only really bringing this up now because people weren't using their common sense. That's all I mean when people start ignoring common sense others have to impose rules that's all it is, a reminder.
Don't really know why i'm posting have all my own gear.

Greg:
People just to point out that these rules have been in place for a long time.  The reason they are there is that the college does not recognise private trips.  To the college every time the club gear is used it is automatically a club trip, and the committee is responsible for making sure that the trip is run to the colleges satisfaction, that is to the same standard as club trips.  Damage to club gear I do not think is a real issue, it is a question of liability if someone is hurt.

It is all fine to say this is an unfair or unworkable system when you are not the one who will take the heat if one simple incident occurs.  And this is the colleges attitude, as it sees it, if someone is hurt using club gear, they will sue the college.  While the Canoe Club does not have an active history of suing the college, there are plenty of cases out there to back up the college's attitude.

On a further point, these debates rage every year regarding different aspects of the Code of Practice, which I advise all to read, maybe it is time to revisit the document and add or subtract from it with reference to our experience from the last three years.  It has to be resubmitted each september to the college anyway.

eoghanp:
im just wondering does the 2 day rule still apply to private gear that is in the boathouse?

i dont think it does or should, but i obviously understand that the committee members need notice to open the boat house or meet people to let them borrow their key etc. cos they dont have other things to be doing.

on that note, i just wanna thank all the committee members who have let me into the boathouse over the last while, i know its (and i am) a pain in the ass.

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