The Club is required to maintain attendance and participation records for contact tracing purposes and an electronic method (rather than pen and paper) is advised.
We have set up a “BSC club contacts” WhatsApp group and we are asking all members who attend the club for any reason (sailing, social event, workparty, meeting, etc.) to register on this WhatsApp group by contacting one of the admins.
We recommend you mute notifications on this group permanently.
How will this work?
Each Skipper (cruiser/dinghy and safety boat) intending to race at the club must send a message with the names of crew members to the group.
A short message like “Saturday Racing, Flying Fish, Patrick Murphy, Mick Wallace” or “Boat Pen Saturday afternoon, Ben Dunne” will suffice.
Other members attending the club for a meeting, workparty, social event, etc. must also register their attendance, together with any family members with them.
The Sailing Secretary Paddy Lombard will create a spreadsheet of attendance which will be shared with the health authorities only in the event of a Covid-19 infection. We also encourage all members to download the HSE COVID-19 contact tracing app.
Who must send notificiation messages:
There are some recurring groups such as Skill Build, Junior Training, and the Coffee Mornings – they are either constant or we have already attendance records. If you are taking part in these activities you do not have to send a message.
For any other activities where you are at the club for more than 15 minutes you must send a message (can be one message per crew/group) with all the names to the WhatsApp group.
As a Club we are required and expected to keep proper tracking records – so please help us to full fill this requirement.