UTLSC
Club Boats
The club fleet comprises three Toppers, two Bosuns, a Wayfarer and a Kestrel. Club members can use these boats providing they have skills comparable with RYA level 2 and are deemed competent sailors (in the boat they wish to use) by the club instructors.

When club members use a club boat they must make a contribution which goes towards the cost of boat parking and insurance. Current rates which are very competitive (payable per session: a morning, an afternoon or an evening) are shown in the front of the club boat-record book that is stored on the shelf in the race hut. Please ensure that you complete the form accompanying the book and have it signed by a club officer, place fees in one of the brown envelopes provided (and mark it with date, signature and sum) and leave the envelope in the booking folder. A committee member will collect it at the end of the day.

Helming
Helms must be members of Upper Tamar Lake Sailing club and also need to have paid the requisite launching or membership fee to SW Lakes Trust based in the Water Sports Centre at the lake. (Since club instructors are not paid employees it is expected that novice helm under instruction would be liable for any damage caused whilst at the helm.) To book the larger club boats please let Roger Heasman know ahead of time: telephone 01288 331847 or
e-mail heasman.ra@gmail.com.

The use of club boats is on a first come, first served basis. However, because the funding for the Toppers was specifically awarded to encourage into the sport young sailors, women and novices, priority of use will be given to them.

Care and vigilance is needed on the lake particularly concerning the wide variety of water activities that take place and the different age groups and levels of experience of lake users. In particular, sailors need to be aware of the fisherman and their tackle, often obscured by plant growth, and to observe a 30 metre exclusion zone around them.

Members using the club boats are asked to identify any problems they find and/or incur concerning the boat equipment. 
In using the boats they are accepting that they will be responsible for paying up to £50 costs towards any damage they incur to the club boat or to other lake users’ equipment. (This is on a par with boat owners who are required to insure their boats and fund any damages they incur to other peoples’ property.)

Crewing  
The club welcomes members who would like to crew and offers several ways in which they might do so in boats on Upper Tamar Lake. (Non-sailing club members, who are crewing, please see club rules for guest sailors.)  

A club member with a double-handed boat may be happy to take people out as crew and sometimes regular partnerships develop. It is a matter of courtesy when crewing that you help rig, launch, retrieve and put away the boat.

Some members of the club and the instructors are happy to helm club boats so that crewing members can get out on the water. In this instance the crew are expected to cover the cost of the boat use. 

All members using club boats are expected to rig and put them away securely. Help will be given to novices and you will be shown where everything is kept and how you are expected to put the boat away.

If members would like to crew, please contact Roger Heasman a few days ahead of time to make arrangements in order to avoid the disappointment of turning up to find no boat or crewing is available. 

Please ask fellow club members if you have further questions; 
people are keen to help you get out on the water.