GP Committee members

The general affairs of the Club is managed by a voluntary team of members who are elected at the annual general meeting to form the General Purposes Committee. The GP committee has three Flag Officers, Commodore, Vice-Commodore and Rear-Commodore, as well as a Secretary, Treasurer, and three other members.

Harry Mayo is serving a second term as Commodore having served the club in many positions. Harry races a Lightning 368 around Combs Reservoir, showing up those many years his junior on the race course. Harry is also well known for his enthusiasm for travelling, and now he has retired is enjoying his time fulfilling all such ambitions. He is also a keen walker.

Russell Talbot is the club's Vice Commodore. He is the club's Health and Safety Officer and our resident technical guru who loves tinkering with boats and electronics, including designing and building our electronic starting system and also helping design our new website. Russell also loves larking about at Combs reservoir in his ancient Lark sailing dinghy or his Laser when he can't find a crew.

Tony Berry is the club's Treasurer again and acting Secretary. He has been a loyal and faithful member of Combs Sailing Club for many years. He has previously acted in all management positions from club treasurer, recorder, secretary, vice commodore and has served many years as Club Commodore, bringing much peace, harmony and development to Combs Sailing Club. He is a loyal GP14 sailor who taught many of today’s club members to sail in their youth.

Chris Fletcher has been a loyal member to Combs for many years joy riding as crew to Gordon Thompson in many double handed sailing Dinghies, enjoying many trophy wins across the years at Combs and away. Many among us will have heard Chris's screams of delight as he hurtled accross the reservoir attatched to a flimsy bit of metal rope on a high performance sailing Dinghy. He has more recently been seen crewing a Merlin Rocket with Paul Thompson.

Mike Craddock has this year been elected to the post of Rear Commodore. His real passion is big boat sailing and he spends much of the summer racing around the Irish sea. He races at Combs in a Phantom dinghy.

 

Judy Gibbons has much sailing experience and is one of the many leisure sailors at Combs.

Andy Brown is a relatively new sailor to Combs. Despite not being the most experienced of sailors, he has recently embarked on a new challenge with a high performance Phanton dinghy. His boundless enthusiasm marks him out as a useful committee member and he was recently co-opted onto the GP committee

No Flag Officer may hold the same office for more than five consecutive years. The Committee shall have power to decide any matter not provided for in the Constitution and shall decide on any Byelaws for the efficient running of the Club. It may co-opt one or two Members (with voting powers) for special purposes. It shall determine the times when dinghy and boardsailing can take place on the sailing ground.