Trip to Ostend = Three day contribution £60

Number of people on board 5

£60 / 5 = £12 + mooring, food etc.

1. The name of the club shall be "The Kessingland Sea Sailing Club" (hereafter referred to in these rules as "the club".)

2. The object for which the club is formed is to promote and facilitate the sport of yachting and in particular to:

(a) To provide boats for members to go sailing

(b) To organize instruction, when possible, to those wishing to learn to

3. The Officers of the club shall be Sailing members, Members, Family or Life members of the club and shall consist of a Club President, a Commodore, a Vice Commodore, a Rear Commodore, an Honorary Secretary and an Honorary Treasurer. Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting in each year and shall hold office for one year, retiring at the termination of the Annual General Meeting in each year. All Officers of the club shall be eligible for re-election.

(a) Keep a register of club members' names and addresses;

(b) Conduct the correspondence of the club;

(c) Keep custody of all club documents;

(d) Keep full minutes of all meetings of the club, and of the Committee which shall be confirmed and signed by the appropriate Chairman upon the agreement of the club, or the committee at the next following meeting of the club or the Committee

(e) Administer such insurance policy or policies as may be needed to fully protect the interest of the club, its officers and its members.

(f) Maintain contact with the club's Legal Adviser to ensure that the club's affairs are managed in accordance with current law.

(a) Cause such books of account to be kept as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the finances of the club

(b) Cause all returns as may be required by law in relation to such accounts to be rendered at the due time

(c) Prepare an Annual Balance Sheet as at 30th September in each year and cause such Balance Sheet (and accounts as necessary) to be audited at least once annually and shall thereafter cause the same to be circulated among the members of the club at least fourteen days before the date of the Annual General Meeting

(a) be appointed at the Annual General Meeting in each year

(b) audit the accounts of the club when called upon to do so and give such certificate of assurance as Auditors to the accuracy of the said accounts as shall be required by law or by the Committee;

(c) if unwilling or unable to act, inform the Committee who shall appoint a substitute to hold office until the termination of the next Annual General Meeting.

7. There shall be the following categories of membership with power to vote at all meetings of the Club as indicated hereunder.

The rights and privileges of each category of members are as defined in the latest edition of the byelaws of the Club.

A sailing member being a person who at the date of election is over the age of 18 shall have one vote and expects to use the boats.

A family sailing member which expression shall include one or two parents (as may be) and all children in full-time education. Each parent comprised within the family unit shall have one vote. They expect to use

the boats.

A junior member being a person who at the date of election is under the age of 18 shall have no vote.

A life member who shall be nominated and elected following ten continuous years full membership of the club and shall have one vote.

An honorary member who shall be nominated and elected in the manner described in Rule 38, but will have no vote.

A temporary member who shall have no vote but will to use the boats .

The Management Committee be allowed to make arrangements with any company, firm, partnership on such terms as may appear desirable and convenient for the club.

No member except a temporary member may use any of the facilities of the Club until 48 hours have elapsed from the date of posting the notice of election Candidates for membership shall have no privilege whatsoever in relation to the use of the facilities of the Club.

8 The rate of Entrance and Subscription fee for each category of Membership (including lump sum single payment subscriptions by Life Members) shall be proposed by the Committee to the members at the Annual General Meeting in each year. Any proposed changes shall be approved by a majority of those present and entitled to vote and shall become operative on the first day of January in the year following.

9 All members shall pay the Entrance fee and their first annual subscription upon election to the club and thereafter on the first day of January in each year.

10. Every member shall furnish the Honorary Secretary with an up-to-date address which shall be recorded in the Register of Members and any notice sent to such address shall be deemed to have been duly delivered.

11. Every candidate for membership (except Honorary Members) shall be proposed and seconded by a Full, Family or Life member of the club, both of whom must be personally acquainted with the candidate.

12. An application for membership shall be in the form from time to time prescribed by the Committee and shall include the name, address, and occupation of the candidate, and the signatures of the Proposer and the Seconder.

13. Upon receipt of an application for membership, the Honorary Secretary shall enter such application in a Register of Candidates and shall cause the application to be notified to the members of the club in such manner as the Committee shall decide at least fourteen days before the meeting of the Committee at which such a application for membership shall be considered. The election of all classes of members is vested in the Committee and shall be by a simple majority vote of those members present and voting at the relevant meeting of the Committee. The Honorary Secretary shall inform each candidate in writing of the candidate's election or non-election. He shall furnish an elected candidate with a copy of the Rules and Byelaws of the club and make request for such payments as are necessary.

14. Upon election, a candidate shall pay, within one calendar month, such entrance and other fees as shall be requested. In default of such payment, the election shall be void unless sufficient cause for delay be shown.

A member joining on or after 1st September shall pay a joining fee and the full membership fee. The membership fee will give membership for the rest of that year and for the whole of the following year.

15 A member desirous of retiring from membership shall give notice in writing to the Honorary Secretary before the last day of November and shall not then be liable to pay the subscription for the following year. Upon re-application by a past member the Committee may, at its discretion, excuse the payment of an Entrance Fee.

16. The Committee may cancel, without notice given, the membership of any member whose annual Subscription and other annual fees are more than three months in arrears provided that the Committee may, at its discretion, re-instate such member upon payment of arrears. NO member whose annual payments are in arrears may enter any club event or regatta nor vote at any meeting.

17. Every Member, upon election and thereafter, is deemed to have notice of, and implicitly undertakes to comply with, the Club Rules and the current Byelaws and Regulations of the club. Any refusal or neglect to do so, or any conduct which, in the opinion of the Committee, is either unworthy of a member or otherwise injurious to the interests of the club, shall render a member liable to expulsion by the Committee.

Provided that, before expelling a member, the Committee shall call upon such member for a written explanation of the member’s conduct and shall give the member full opportunity of making explanation to the Committee, or of resigning.

A resolution to expel a member shall be carried by a simple majority vote by those members of the Committee present and voting on the Resolution.

18. A member shall not knowingly remove, injure, destroy or damage any property of the club and shall make restitution for the same if called upon to do so by the Committee or by the Honorary Secretary upon the instructions of the Committee.

19. Members, their guests and visitors are bound by the following Rule.

Members, their guests or visitors may use the facilities of the Club, entirely at their own risk and implicitly accept:

(a) The Club will not accept any liability for any damage to or loss of property belonging to members, their guests or visitors to the Club.

(b) The Club will not accept any liability for personal injury arising out of the use of the facilities of the Club either sustained by members, their guest or visitors, or caused by the said members, guests or visitors whether or not such damage or injury could have been attributed to or was occasioned by the neglect, default or negligence of any of them, the Officers, the Committee or servants of the club.

20. The Management Committee (herein referred to as "the Committee") shall consist of the officers, ex officio, and not less than four nor more than eight Sailing members, Members, Family or Life members of the club elected at the Annual General Meeting each year to hold office until the termination of the next following Annual General Meeting.

21. At the Annual General Meeting each year all of the Sailing members, Members, Family and Life members shall retire. Members retiring under this rule shall be eligible for re-election to the Committee

22. Candidates for election to the Committee (not being Officers of the Club) shall be those members of the retiring Committee eligible to offer themselves for re-election and such other Sailing members, Members, or Family members whose nominations (duly proposed and seconded in writing by Full or Family members of the club) with their consent shall have been received by the Honorary Secretary at least twenty eight days before the date of the Annual General Meeting in each year. Such nominations, together with the names of the Proposer and Seconder shall be notified to the members with the notice of Annual General Meeting at least fourteen days prior to the date of the Annual General Meeting.

23. If the number of candidates for election is equal to or less than the number of vacancies to be filled then all candidates shall be deemed to be elected.

24. If the number of candidates for election is greater than the number of vacancies to be filled then a written secret ballot shall be held at the Annual General Meeting of all those members present and entitled to vote.

25. In the event of the ballot failing to determine the members of the Committee because of an equality of votes the candidate or candidates to be elected, from those having an equal number of votes shall be determined by lot.

26. If, for any reason, a casual vacancy shall occur, the Committee may co-opt a Sailing Member, Member, Family or Life member to fill such a vacancy until the next following Annual General Meeting.

27. A retiring Commodore shall serve as an ex officio member of the Committee in the year immediately following his retirement.

28. The Committee shall meet at least every three months making such arrangements as to the conduct, place of assembly and holding of such meetings as it may wish. The Commodore or in his absence a Chairman elected by those present shall preside.

29. Voting (except in the case of a resolution relating to the expulsion of a member) shall be by show of hands. In the case of equality of votes the Commodore or Chairman (as the case may be) shall have a second and casting vote.

30. Three members personally present shall form a quorum at a meeting of the Committee.

31. The Committee shall manage the affairs of the club according to the Rules and shall cause the funds of the club to be applied solely to the objects of the club or for a benevolent or charitable purpose nominated by General Meeting.

32. The Committee shall make such Byelaws and Regulations as it shall from time to time think fit and shall cause the same to be notified in writing to the members of the club for fourteen days before the date of implementation. Such Byelaws and Regulations shall remain in force until approved or set aside by a vote at a General Meeting of the club.

33. The Committee may appoint such sub-committees as it may deem necessary and may delegate such of its powers as it may think fit upon such terms and conditions as shall be deemed expedient and/or required by the law. Such sub-committees shall consist of such members of the Committee or of the club as the Committee may think fit. Officers of the club shall be ex officio members of all such sub-committees.

34. A member of the Committee, or a sub-committee or any Officer of the club, in transacting business for the club, shall disclose to third parties that he is so acting.

35. The Committee, or any person or sub-committee delegated by the Committee to act as agent for the club or its members, shall enter into contracts only so far as expressly authorised, or authorised by implication, by the members. No one shall, without the express authority of the membership in General Meeting, pledge the credit of the membership.

36. In pursuance of the authority vested in the Committee by members of the club, members of the Committee are entitled to be indemnified by the members of the club against any liabilities properly incurred by them or any one of them on behalf of the club wherever the contract is of a duly authorised nature or could be assumed to be of a duly authorised nature and entered into on behalf of the club.

The limit of an individual member's indemnity in this respect shall be a sum equal to one year's subscription at the then current rate for that category of membership unless the Committee has been authorised to exceed such limit by a General Meeting of the Club.

37. The Committee may nominate at an Annual General Meeting such Honorary Members as the Committee may think fit. The total of such Honorary Members shall not, however, at any time, exceed five per cent of the total number of members nor shall the number of Honorary Members exceed at any one time six in number.

39.

(a) There shall be at least four Trustees of the club who shall be appointed from time to time as necessary by the Committee of the club from among Sailing members, Members, Family or Life Members who are willing to be so appointed. A Trustee shall hold office as long as he is a member of the club, or a resolution removing him from office shall be passed at a meeting of the Committee by a majority comprising two-thirds of the Members of the Committee present and entitled to vote.

(b) The present Trustees of the club shall be Stanley Beckett, Paul Noton, Sid Pretty, Laurie Rainger, John Bird, John Budgen and Nick Fischl.

40. All property of the club, including land and investments, shall be held by the Trustees for the time being, in the names of at least four Trustees on trust for the use and benefit of the club. On the death, resignation, or removal from office of Trustee, the Committee may nominate a new Trustee in his place, and shall as soon as possible thereafter take all lawful and practicable steps to procure the vesting of all club property into the names of the Trustees as constituted after such nomination. For the purpose of giving effect to any such nomination the Honorary Secretary for the time being is hereby nominated as the person to appoint new Trustees of the club within the meaning of Section 36 of the Trustee Act 1925 and he shall by Deed duly appoint the person or persons so nominated by the Committee.

41. The Trustees shall in all respects act, in regard to any property of the club held by them, in accordance with the directions of the Committee, and shall have power to sell, lease, mortgage or pledge any club property so held for the purpose of raising or borrowing money for the benefit of the club in compliance with the Committee's directions (which shall be duly recorded in the Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee) but no purchaser, lease or mortgage shall be concerned to enquire whether any direction has been given.

42. The Trustees shall be effectually indemnified by the Committee out of the assets of the club from and against any liability, costs, expenses and payments whatsoever which may be properly incurred or made by them in the exercise of their duties or in relation to any property of the club vested in them, or in relation to any legal proceedings, or which otherwise relate directly or indirectly to the performance of the functions of a Trustee of the club.

43. An Annual General Meeting of the club shall be held each year in the month of November on a date to be fixed by the General Committee. The Honorary Secretary shall at least fourteen days before the date of such meeting or any General Meeting hereinafter mentioned post or deliver to each member notice thereof and of the business to be brought forward thereat.

44. No business, except the passing of the Account and the election of the Officers, Committee, and Honorary Auditors, and any business that the Committee may order to be inserted in the notice convening the meeting shall be discussed at such meeting unless notice thereof be given in writing by member entitled to vote to the Honorary Secretary least twenty one days before the date of the Annual General Meeting. Such members shall state in detail the matter to be put to the Annual General Meeting and give the names of at least three other members who support his proposal.

45. The Committee may at any time, upon giving twenty-one days notice in writing, call a General Meeting of the club for any special business, the nature of which shall be stated in the summons convening the meeting, and the discussion at such meeting shall be confined to the business stated in the notice sent to members.

46. The Committee shall similarly call a General Meeting upon a written request addressed to the Honorary Secretary by at least 10 members. The discussion at such meeting shall be confined to the business stated in the notice sent to members.

47. At every meeting of the club the President or the Commodore or, in their absence, a Chairman elected by those present shall preside.

48. Only Sailing members, Members, Family and Life members shall vote at any meeting of the club. Other members may attend but are not entitled to vote.

49. Voting shall (subject to the provisions of rules 25 and 38) be by show of hands.

50. In the case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second casting vote, on any matter other than the election of the Committee.

51. On any resolution properly put to a meeting of the club relating to the creation, repeal or amendment of any rule, bye-law, regulation of the club, such rule, bye-law or regulation shall not be created, repealed or amended unless the following procedures and requirements are followed:

(a) An Extraordinary/General Meeting of the member as specified under Section 3, Rule 7. The General Meeting shall be convened not less than eight weeks after the said Resolution by giving not less than four weeks notice in writing to each member.

(b) Such Resolution shall include a scheme for bonafide proxy voting and a member whose proxy is held by a member present at the meeting, shall be treated the purpose of sub-paragraph (c) below as if he had been present.

(c) If the total number of members attending and treated as attending, such an Extraordinary/General Meeting shall be less than half of those entitled to vote under sub-paragraph (a), the Resolution shall of no effect.

(d) If at such an Extraordinary/General Meeting not rendered ineffective by the operation of sub-paragraph (c), the Resolution shall be confirmed by a majority as provided under sub-paragraph (e).

(e) The majority for the purpose of sub-paragraph (d) shall be a majority of not less than two-thirds of members including any proxy vote duly authorised provided in sub-paragraph (b) and for the avoidance of doubt notwithstanding anything elsewhere in these rules as to voting rights, all members entitled to attend such as Extraordinary/General Meeting shall be entitled to vote.

In order for a proxy vote to be valid for the purposes of this rule, it shall be in the following form or a form to the like effect.

52. That only members with full voting rights as stipulated under Rule 7, and having been a full member with voting rights for ten continuous years, will have the right to vote upon the winding up or dissolution of the club.

53. If, upon the winding up or dissolution of the club, there remains after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed amongst the members of the club but shall be given or transferred to some other institution or institutions having objects similar to the objects of the club, such institution or institutions to be determined by the members of the club by Resolution passed at a General Meeting at or before the time of the dissolution and if so far as effect cannot be given to such provision then to some charitable object.

(I) The present rights and privileges of each category of membership shall be as follows:

A Sailing Member, Life Member and Family Member shall have the full use of all the club facilities.

A Member shall have use of the club facilities but not use the boats.

An Honorary Member shall have the full use of all the club facilities.

A Temporary Member (which expression may include members of another RYA recognised club or organisation) shall have the full use of the club facilities, but:

(a) No right to enter club races or regattas unless specifically authorised by the Honorary Secretary or Committee.

(b) No right to take part in the management of the club.

(c) Is deemed to have notice of and implicitly undertakes to comply with the rules, current Byelaws and Regulations as if he or she were a member of the club and so far as the said rules, Byelaws and Regulations may be deemed to apply to such temporary Member.

(d) Shall be liable to expulsion from the club premises or prohibited to use club facilities if, in the opinion of the Honorary Secretary, he or she shall not have reasonably complied with the above conditions.