RC volunteers are needed in September and October, particularly on Thursday evenings, and Sunday afternoons in October. If you haven’t yet done your RC duties, please sign up on-line. If you have raced regularly this season and you don’t do any RC duty before the end of the year, per SI 21.12, you will not be allowed to register in 2017 until you sign up for RC Duty.
Original Notice:
If you are registered to race this season, now is the time to sign up for Race Committee (RC) Duty. No experience required. Over the course of the season, each keel boat skipper is responsible for providing three volunteers and each dinghy skipper is responsible for providing two volunteers. If your boat is actively racing on more than one evening you have to provide twice as many volunteers. Those who don’t voluntarily sign up run the risk of being press-ganged into duty, if volunteers are needed at the last minute, as explained in the Sailing Instructions.
To sign-up:
1. Go to: nsc.ca/volunteers/racing_db/ (or follow the link from the main Racing page).
2. Find the month you’d like to volunteer in using “Previous Month” and “Next Month”.
3. Pick a race night and click Sign Up next to an available job.
4. When signing up, indicate the name of the boat which should be credited for this duty, as well as the skipper’s name & e-mail address, and the fleet in which you race. Otherwise we will not know which boat to credit.
5. Forward this email to your crew and ask them to also sign up. Or you can sign them up yourself — just make sure they show up. You do not need to be a racer to volunteer.
6. Show up for race duties on the night you selected at least 1 hour before the race starts (5:15 PM for summer race nights, 5:00 PM after September 1st. If you have volunteered for Frostbite races, please be at the dock by 12:30.) For weekend events, the start time varies, but is specified in the calendar.
For those who don’t sign-up, the RC Volunteer Coordinator may contact skippers, who are actively racing, to fill the empty slots in the schedule. Skippers who fail to sign up at that point will be scored NR (Not Registered) until they fulfill their RC duty obligations, per the sailing instructions. So, beat the rush – why not sign up right now?
If you have any questions, please contact Fran and Jim Kelly, the RC Volunteer Coordinators.
