Social calendar

Friday 1 April - live music & pasta

Don’t be an April Fool and miss out on the Friday night music, food and bar night. This will be the last Friday night before daylight saving ends- so make the most of the diminishing light. Melissa and Tony will be back to entertain us with some great live music. The food for the night will be pasta - so come along for some home cooked spaghetti bolognaise or vegetarian option, garlic bread and combine it with some nice red wine or cold beer.

Saturday 16 April – Greek International Night

We have one of our regular bands playing- they have no official name, but some Greek members so the Zorba theme will be there and some dancing for sure. Food for the night will be Greek- a souvlaki caterer is cooking for us on site, and yummy Greek treats for dessert. I am sure Jude will have some Ouzo for the bar! This event is an adult only event and is for members and member’s partners only - sorry but no guests for this event. We have had many new members join the club over the summer, and this is a great opportunity to get us all together. The deal is every guest has to wear at least some item of clothing, jewelry or even a whole costume that has some Greek connection. Use your imagination. Ticket prices are $30 a head – a cheap night and it will be great fun. Tickets must be prepaid and can be ordered and paid for at the canteen on Saturday mornings, or tickets can be ordered via email to social@williamstownsailingclub.org.au, but these will need to be paid for by Saturday 9 April. Come and join in for a great night.

Past social events

Friday night 4 March

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Membership

Whether you are a committee member or an ordinary member of the sailing club we all have certain responsibilities and owe certain duties to the club and our members.

Many of these are common sense duties such as keeping the facilities clean and tidy, turning the lights off, emptying your cans and bottles before putting them in the recycling bin, giving way to and assisting rescue boats during boat retrieval.

Others duties are more formal such as signing any non-member into the visitors book, which seems like an obscure and stuffy old rule but an important duty for all. Simply because, at any time it proves who is on the premises, the names of others that were there, which club member is responsible for them, and it demonstrates our culture of responsibility and safety with our insurer.

It’s important to remember that every duty undertaken is simply a demonstration of respect to the Club and your fellow members. Doing them in the right way means you’re being mindful of your duty to other club members and in many ways simply thanking them. Not everyone gets to experience the fun of volunteering such as; behind the bar, only to have the beer dregs spill all over you when you empty the recycling tub. Or volunteer on the Race Committee boat for the first time only to have an experienced sailor swing past yelling and carrying on, wow how does that encourage people to learn about racing or volunteer. Or turn up to one working bee and expect that you’ll be given a bottom rack allocation in the club's storage facilities.

Simply being a member does not provide any privileges, nor does having previously served as a Committee of Management member allow you to rest on your laurels. Membership of this club is one that brings duty and responsibility. It’s a privilege that can be revoked.

Yours sincerely
Simon van den Berg
Commodore