Sunshine Coast
Model Boat Club, Inc. By-Laws and
Code of Courtesy Amended
January 2021
1
Members and
visitors using the old A.M. and F.M. frequencies are required to check with
others before switching on their radios.
2
Radio transmitter
aerial tips are to be fitted with safety caps
3
Members’ boats
are to observe a slow speed and careful handling at or near the launching and
mooring areas.
4
Power boats
should give way to sail when possible.
5
Fast electric
boats to keep to the buoyed southern end of the lake.
6
Harbour Master
approval is required before any boat fitted with steam boilers is fired up in
the designated areas.
7
Internal
combustion powered boats are banned from the University lake at all times.
8
No swimming or
fishing is permitted in the lake.
9
All members are
required to operate their boats with due care.
10 Members are required to wear Club name badges at all
club meetings.
11 Members and visitors must sign the Attendance book at
all club meetings.
12 It is the duty
of Club members to keep the grounds tidy at all times.
13 No member is to become involved in any altercation or
action which may bring the name of the Club into disrepute or jeopardise the
Club’s tenure of the Lake.
14 Members must avoid any remark or action which may
cause annoyance or embarrassment to any other member or visitor.
15 No domestic animals or model airplanes are permitted
on University grounds.
16 Entry to the lake is only to be made through the
official gateway.
17 Rescue boat to be used by 2 adult Club members only
wearing life jackets .
18 All boats to have protective buffers on their bows
when possible.
19 Members and visitors who enter the water must wear
appropriate footwear (not
thongs) and do so at their own risk.
(This follows the members meeting on 24th January.) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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