GS has evolved - 27 February 2010
GS has been around for nearly 5 years. While our 'strap line' has been promoting dinghy sailing in the Highlands, we have increasingly tried to promote all types of sailing. We've run a successful Sea Safety Day and organized sailing seminars featuring top speakers such as Steve Cockerill, Tom Cunliffe, Andrew Simpson, Steve Goacher & Chris Owen. We've promoted the North of Scotland Sailing Squad and Coach-the-Coaches days with RYA Scotland & Coaching Highland. We have revived the North of Scotland Dinghy Championships. We have also developed this web-site and provided useful networking opportunities for sailors in the area. We've been an umbrella group for Highland Sailing clubs - perhaps trying to do things collectively that individual clubs would not attempt. Now we have the opportunity to do more.
RYA Scotland is setting-up 15 sailing development groups across Scotland whose mission is simply to develop sailing (& powerboating). GS is seen to be the foundation for a development group not just for Highland but also for Moray. This group includes the commercial providers of sailing & powerboating training and Sea Cadet and Sea Scout units in addition to the clubs (both RYA affiliated and non-affiliated) and even relevant groups or clubs that fall just the 'wrong' side of the border. The collective aim is to develop all aspects of sailing & powerboating. The concept has been very well received at an RYA Scotland workshop on 6 October and at a GS meeting on 17 November, the Office Bearers were given the go ahead to draft a new constitution for a renamed organization called Highland & Moray Sailing (HMS) to be voted on by the current GS members at an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held in Inverness on 27 February 2010. We did our utmost to prepare the ground for a smooth transition on 27 February from GS to HMS by giving every club and organization a chance to provide input to the new constitution during a consultation period from 1 - 15 December.
If you have any questions or points you would like to raise please contact me via the Contact tab.
Richard Jenner
Chairman GS (now HMS)
March 2010
RYA Scotland is setting-up 15 sailing development groups across Scotland whose mission is simply to develop sailing (& powerboating). GS is seen to be the foundation for a development group not just for Highland but also for Moray. This group includes the commercial providers of sailing & powerboating training and Sea Cadet and Sea Scout units in addition to the clubs (both RYA affiliated and non-affiliated) and even relevant groups or clubs that fall just the 'wrong' side of the border. The collective aim is to develop all aspects of sailing & powerboating. The concept has been very well received at an RYA Scotland workshop on 6 October and at a GS meeting on 17 November, the Office Bearers were given the go ahead to draft a new constitution for a renamed organization called Highland & Moray Sailing (HMS) to be voted on by the current GS members at an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held in Inverness on 27 February 2010. We did our utmost to prepare the ground for a smooth transition on 27 February from GS to HMS by giving every club and organization a chance to provide input to the new constitution during a consultation period from 1 - 15 December.
If you have any questions or points you would like to raise please contact me via the Contact tab.
Richard Jenner
Chairman GS (now HMS)
March 2010