ULKC are lucky enough to have a huge inventory of gear and a pretty big buget. But all this gear needs to be taken care of and respected.
I'm looking around the boathouse here and notice the broken pile of boats is getting bigger while old airbags and valuable spraydecks are literally fŭcked everywhere and worst of all wet gear is still stuffed in the back of kayaks, never to see the light of day again.
I'm not the best at keeping the place super tidy either and I've stayed away from the committee since first year but its everybody's responsibility to respect the gear you have been given by the club.
There is far too much gear here for the quippy to take care of. We should all learn to weld boats and stitch ripped spraydecks and, probably simpliest of all, hang wet gear up to dry.
On a separate point, and what got me initially writing this post. My spraydeck went missing there a while back, no big deal, private gear gets mistakenly used as club gear all the time. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Anyways, I'm after finding it again with three new rips in it. Pretty annoying. I've been getting years out of that spraydeck simply by taking care of it.
Anyways, I just feel we all need to take better care of club gear. Even when coming back from a super long weekend. It's not so difficult to pull the wet gear out the back of a smelly kayak or drybag and hang it up. There's literally shit rotting in the back of some of the kayaks.
Apologies for this ridiculously long rant. I'm not pointing the finger at anyone. I have broken my fair share of club gear in the past too. It's a whitewater club.. If you ain't breaking stuff you ain't going hard enough!
So in summation I believe it would be amazing if we all
1: Took wet shit out of the back of boats when finished
2: Hung all this great kit up to dry
3: Fix the shit we break
#peaceout #betterpracticewhatipreacenow
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