Hello Everyone.

The Autumn doldrums are here! Plenty of time for more mundane issues.

I'm proposing holding a meeting to re-establish the Adelaide Boardsailing Club, which has been dormant for a few years now but remains an incorporated body in SA:

The idea is to use the club as means of:

1. Providing an incorporated body that can support the activities of groups like the SA Social Wave Sailors and SA Speed Demons, so that people running events under these names have some protection from liability.

2. Have the club affiliated with Windsurfing SA and the Australian Windsurfing Association so that members of the club have third party insurance as part of their membership fee (probably $30 or so). This would also reduce the workload for Windsurfing SA.

3. Use the club to run some more windsurfing events in the Adelaide region. I'm thinking a long distance race along the coast for a start.

At this stage, we just need a handful of people to just turn up and form the new committee. Hopefully not too much work or extra meetings involved. It's basically about getting the "paper work" organised for these things to happen.


Any takers?

Any comments?


Date: Tuesday, 12th May, 7.30 pm
Venue: Kingston House, 5 Cameron Ave., Kingston Park (yes, the big old house in the reserve)

PM or email me if the time or venue is a problem, and we can rejig if needed.


Regards, Richard Upton

Good work Richard - be great to see everyone get behind this and get a state incorporated club running to help out with insurance and events etc (rumor is a council contacted a wave sailor and said you can't run a social wave event on his watch in his council area).


Hopefully a lot of crew will turn up and support your endeavors and throw a few hands up to help out.

Will do me best to get there.

this is such a good idea Richard, cant wait to get this up and running,

good effort Richard, I'm out of town that night but hope it all goes well.
a club in the background to handle all the paper work and insurance stuff is a great thing.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your positive responses! Looks like we have a meeting set for 7.30 pm 12th May at Kingston House.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Now I have to backup my big mouth :-)

Regards, Richard

Dr Duck said...

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your positive responses! Looks like we have a meeting set for 7.30 pm 12th May at Kingston House.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Now I have to backup my big mouth :-)

Regards, Richard

Hope to see a good turn out - so don't forget to turn up and show some support for Richard and all the other crew that want to progress windsurfing in SA.

Theres nothing on TV anyway - then again theres nothin on TV any day

Met ANOTHER woman interested in learning to windsurf, told her about our Womens and beginners days. Maybe we could start a database for our next learners event? Sorry we couldnt make it to the meeting.

Hi Muzza,

I've got times for a couple of runs I did before autumn. Pretty modest speeds but I got there and back both times :-) I'll start a result table when we get the club going soon. I'm always keen to do the run with someone else too.

Hi Russell,

Hopefully we should be able to finalise a few things on Tuesday if we can get the "committee" together again. Anyone else is welcome to attend of course - 2nd June, 7.30 pm, Kingston House, 5 Cameron Ave., Kingston Park.

Richard