How can you fit more boats into your boat house?
When it comes to dealing with large, heavy objects (boats) and numerous people (club members), safety and strategic planning for space optimization are of the utmost concern. That's why we paid special attention to an interesting question we received from a boat club manager in the UK, who simply wondered, how can you fit more boats into your boat house? Douglas Lumsden had the following suggestion: Designing the racking for the singles at an 'offset' on either side of the vertical
Towing Boats Doesn’t Have to Be a Pain: Get the Checklist
Towing a boat trailer is a fact of life for us rowers - particularly, if you're a coach, a dragon boater, a volunteer driver, or a boat club manager. There are lots of tips for how to do it successfully - a main one being know your length and clearance, proceed with caution, and make sure your boathouse has insurance! (Speaking of which, here's a great podcast on what insurance to get for your boat club). Here is a link to a great safety
Winter’s Upon Us: A Boathouse Clean-up Checklist
In the Southern Hemisphere, winter is settling in - you can feel the chill on the water, right? It's time to clean out the boathouse before winter training. Below we've put together a checklist of things to do around the boat club. Did we forget anything? Add to our list! Wash boats - Wash them off and hose them down! USE SOAP - washing up liquid is great and don't forget to rinse off all the dirty suds. Service boats - Make a list
5 Clubs (and 1 Company) Take a Unique Slant on Fundraising
Thanks to our friends at Rowperfect, we bring you a collation of the diverse activities which rowing clubs undertake in order to raise funds. Scroll to the bottom of this article to find 3 additional resources from Space Saver all about fundraising and finances, including our e-book of fundraising hints and tips. Make the rowers cook! It goes like this: tickets are purchased for a "strictly dinner" event where the athletes both cook for and serve to the guests. There will need to be culinary standards,
Boathouse Etiquette
It doesn't have to sound archaic. Boathouse etiquette really is important even in this day and age, just as a certain etiquette is expected at a gym - safety is unquestionably the first concern, but so is the comfort of each member. As a boat club manager, it's your job to provide a set of rules and guidelines to keep your club a responsible atmosphere for everyone to enjoy the sport of rowing. Below we set out specific themes for you
Transporting Your Crew to a Regatta
Minimize the potential catastrophes with 6 easy steps Transporting your crew to a regatta can be a hectic affair made more complex in inverse proportion to the age of the crew. It's time to accept that THINGS GO WRONG. To combat the chaos theories of the universe you will have to be as organised as humanly possible in advance and we're here to help. 1. Venues Your club has a website, make use of it. Add a page called 'Regatta Venues' and have
Get Inspired by Fund Raising Events for Rowing Clubs
Is your rowing club in need of new oar brackets? Perhaps a few new shells? Or a mechanical stacker? You know it's time to fund raise, and SSRS is ready to share some great ideas of how to add crisp bills to your club penny jar. Helicopters, TV stars and $40K, Oh my You have connections and it's time to use them. Haul in your celebrity contacts and their really, really expensive toys for the 'penthouse' of rowing club fund raisers. Take the Palmetto rowing club fund raiser
Gentle Giants: A Rowing Club with a Twist
Rowing as a metaphor for life is the motto of a unique and inspiring rowing club. Space Saver Rowing Systems had the opportunity to get to know them when they purchased our Oar Brackets earlier this year. They're called the Gentle Giants, and if you're a rower or rowing club manager, they are something to get inspired by. The Gentle Giants have turned their passion for rowing into a way to benefit communities and the environment in which they row. Their motto extends the ideals
9 Ways to Start the Rowing Season Right
A Rowing Club Manager's Checklist It's that time of year when the northern hemisphere starts winter training and the southern hemisphere schools begin their summer programme. Collaborating with coach Rebecca Caroe of Rowperfect, we have pulled together a check list of things to do for a rowing club at the start of the season: Sweep out the boathouse - dusty and dirty it is and spick and span it will be Put away those riggers lying on the floor between the boat racks. Maybe get a hanging rack for wing riggers. Service
How Dragon Boating can Save your Rowing Club Finances
During times of financial instability we know one thought is at the fore-front of all rowing club manager's minds: how do we make money and keep our club afloat!? Well we have a very simple solution for you, and it breathes fire. We're talking dragon boats. Dragon What? Firmly established in the boating world and growing with popularity, dragon boats are seen far beyond the Hong Kong market. They're visually attractive vessels propelled by the power of 22 members. This makes them a fantastic