Introductory Tour to the YCC

Goals

The Aim of the "Introductory Tour" is to give a live introduction to the CERN Yachting Club complementing the information provided by the documents available on the website and the theory courses.

The attendance is new members with prior sailing experience wishing to pass a test in the current season. It is obviosly open to anybody else. The emphasys should be on what makes sailing in the YCC different with respect to any other place on earth. This information are usually provided during the courses, people not following a course oftern have no occasion to be exposed to all of them.

The Tour

Meeting

People gather at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month close to the Buvette de Port Choiseul, next to the Moby Dick sailing school.

Training Inscriptions

Introduce the Thursday Practices and explain how it works while the inscription are taking place.

The Boats

At this point the Thursday Crews have started to rig the boats.

Present all the boats one by one (skip Yingling).

KeelBoats

Go to the Keelboat moorings: show the yingling, the Gipsy and the Surprises and the J-boats.

Explain the harbour entrance/exit rules:

• Paddle to the rigging buoy for the yingling
• Use of the engine for the Gipsy, the Surprises and J-boats.

Take the opportunity to discuss Leman weather, typical wind conditions, storms. Show the placement of the "yellow flashing lights" explain their meaning and the rule in case of storm.

Motor Boat

Introduce the motor boat and the security shifts activity and remind them:

• To inscribe themself for their mandatory Q-Boat outing.
• That participating to the surveillance shifts is a full activity of a YCC member
• And invite those of them having a valid motor-boat licence to propose themselves as drivers.

Dinghies

Move to the dinghy quai.

Introduce our dighies, explain which licence is required to sail which, show the box and lock system.

Let them to pay attention and appreciate the way our boat should be rig and un-rig.
Stress that as the boats are used by many people, they should be kept uniform and simple to rig.

Show how dinghies are put in water and how to exit and enter the harbour.

Boat Reservation and logbook

Move to the PC room and show the boat reservation and logbook system

Explain to the participants:

• The key system
• How to login the system
• How the reservation system works
• which are the reservation rules.
• The usage and importance of the logbook
• How fill it and why

This is also a nice opportunity to explain the licence system, the difference between YCC licence and national sailing licences.

Maintenance and accidents

Explain our maintenance rules and , what to do in case:

• a damange is reported in the logbook
• they discover a damage not yet reported
• the boat is damanged during an outing
• Finally invite them to contact the maintenance responsibles for helping them.

Explain the insurance scheme:

• what to do in case of damange to other boat.
• what to do in case they found themselves in distress and unable to reach Versoix by their own means.

Regattas etc

Take the opportunity to introduce to them our sport events and the "club spirit" that rule them.

Barbecues and social activities

Invite them to the following barbeque and present our social activities.

Sailing

If you wish, reserve the Gipsy, a Surprise or the J/80 and do most of this on board while sailing...

Comments and Suggestions

Ask for comments and suggestions by inviting them to ask questions and answering to all of them during the tour itself.