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    Volunteerism

    By any comparison, you will find that your membership in the Sailing Club at UWM is a bargain. As a member, you won't need to pay any additional fees to use Club boats or facilities. Instead of money, we ask that everyone contribute a minimum of 20 service hours each year.
    Members who contributed 20+ Volunteer hours are elegible for a reduced rate when renewing their membership. Members who contributed more than 50 volunteer hours will even be able to renew with an even lower rate. See our fee schedule for details.

    Below is a (not complete) list of typical volunteer duties:
    • Sailing instruction (skippers only)
    • Boat maintenance (painting, ongoing repairs, boats in etc, see pictures on the right), contact Fleet Captain for details
    • Consider running for a position on the Executive board
    • Dock attendant: answer the phone, update and resupply postings and handouts
    • Club promotion: design and post flyera, staff info tables etc. (contact Membership chair)
    • and many more. Contact any Board member to find out how you can help out

    Maintaining our own fleet is expensive, and while membership fees help to defray some of our costs, we owe our real cost advantage to the volunteer contributions of each of our members. In fact, we could not keep the Club going without them. There are lots of ways that you can help. For instance, in the spring we need people to help launch the boats at "Boats In," and in the fall, to scrub the hulls and put them away again. If cooking is more your thing, how about donating one of your specialties to a Club picnic? Are you a writer? Show off your style by typing up some clever prose for the newsletter. Like to work on your tan? We always appreciate dock attendants who answer the phone, and help students to make lesson reservations.
    Volunteering your time has other benefits too. While you are straightening up the dock box, you may be invited to go for a sail. Or, when you are lifting a mast onto a Yngling, you may learn something about rigging.

    Throughout its history, the Sailing Club at UWM has sought to make this exhilarating sport as accessible as possible. We are counting on you to help us to continue this tradition.
    Boat maintenance at the Great Lakes Facility

    Painting of boats

    Boats Out (Oct. 2001)
       
    Last update: Tuesday, 21-Apr-2009 13:19:50 CDT by holger@uwm.edu F. Holger Försterling The home page of  The Sailing Club at UWM is written and edited by students of the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and they are solely responsible for its editorial policy and content.  The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is not liable for debts incurred by the student organization.