VOLUNTEER LOG - 2013

Volunteers make it happen!

 At Edgewood Sailing School, volunteers carry the School, and in particular, they carry the Fleet of 37 boats, 16 trailers, and plus 5 tons of equipment.  On the water volunteers serve as Race Committees, adult Tutors, and youth JIs.  On land, along with our enthusiastic donors and supporters, our Volunteers are our board of directors and helpers, our transportation corps, and now our adult Saturday Vols, and Haul-Out Volunteers. 

 This time of year, in the Fall, Edgewood volunteers prepare the Fleet and haul it out for winter storage.  Over the winter, volunteers go through all the parts, perform maintenance on the motors and electrical, make repairs; inventory the sails and equipment, clean up, carry sails in for repairs at the local Doyle Sail loft, re-rig.   Idea is to find the Fleet on the hard in the spring 2014 with all the repairs properly made, the equipment in top-condition, and the necessary preventative maintenance entirely complete, so the Fleet is ready.   

Call for Volunteers - meeting times scheduled for October 2013:

• sa oct05 (9:00-noon) - unrig c420 spars - flat spreaders ready for bags
• sa oct12 (9:00-noon) - build Sunfish shelf in container - haul 12ft whalers, & clean
• mo oct14 (4pm-7pm) - remove equipment, unstep spars, up for winter racks
• tu oct15 (4pm-6pm) - prepare & bring R19 trailers to Edgewood (work offsite)*
• we oct16 (6pm-8pm) - lift R19s onto trailers at RI Yacht Club & tow to Edgewood 
• th oct17 (9am-noon) - cleanup hulls at Edgewood
• th oct17 (4pm-7pm) -  haul two ESS whalers & clean (hw: 1930)
• sa oct19 9:00-noon - cleanup R19 hulls, inspect and store anchors, sails, equipment
• sa oct26 9:00-noon - unrigging motors/steering, hull repairs & setting winter covers

 Haul-Out schedule at the times shown.  Saturday Vols usually 9am-noon.
(*) Check with Jonathan for "off site" location details.

 Please Register on-line for each meeting to allow planning.  Bring workclothes approriate to the outside weather conditions.  Sailing School provides necessary materials and safety equipment.

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