Southern region meet?

Glad to see you fixed after the escalator gate disaster! Looks like a great site however there is no mention of any driving of your own vehicle only using theirs??? I really do not want to drive my g there and then to pay to drive a land rover! Sounds like we need to ask if we can pay and play with our own G's

From their homepage  "We use our own vehicles with experienced instructors, to make sure that you have one of the best experiences ever !"

Gordon O

     so  all these guys are SCHOCKL tested drivers 

It will be a liability thing. It has to be their vehicles under their supervision. We really need our own club insurance for events as this will open up so many venues and sites. Let's see what they say . I really do not get excited about driving a defender .

My friend owns lambs lair I showed the site to spider for the stillborn southwest AGM. We would have to have our own club insurance to use these sites. If it added 20 quid to the club membership fee would we all be ok with that.

Must be plenty of pay & play sites. 

I have spent some time this afternoon researching insurance for clubs and events . Forget all about signing disclaimers etc, we must have proper insurance for events and be able to take responsibility for safety and management of the event and the safe driving by members throughout the time on site. This is something that needs putting together at an AGM by the committee. It can be done and should be done if we want to be able to use off road sites on a club organised basis . This would make the job of a regional rep. Much easier to organise a driving day off road etc . The trip we did on Salisbury plain organised by the gwoa was great fun and a real mini adventure. More please.

 

    well done Axel for your time you have put in to this

    would this insurance be for GWOA organized (marshaled) events  ONLY

     or would members be covered on other off road marshaled events ?

            

    

Minxy - have sent you some detail on Salisbury pain. It was a great day out!

Re the Lambs pit thingy that Axel was discussing - it would be perfect as it has both soft and hard core ares - so those members who have never off roaded before or are nervous, could start off and as their confidence grows could then progress onwards. Obviously those hard care members would fiannly get something they could (if they wanted to) trash their trucks!

Insurance......the bain of my life! I have been offered and researched some fantastic places - the MVEE test tracks in Camberley, to off roading in the Scottish highlands, some fantastic closed off orad sites down near aldermaston though to places in essex/ herts area -  however unless there was club insurance it was a no go. Tried and failed to get the old 'heads' interested and we know how that ended 

Maybe with the change in Junta and the new growing and reinvigorated GWOA things may considered different? Echoing what has already been said the off road world would open up if we had some club insurance. Though it would involve things like H&S, risk assessments, but I think there are always members who are willing to give a hand..

Spider1V

  to me its very sad when members try to spice things up and organize events

   little or no one turns up and on the odd occasion when they do

   there is no support from the GWOA  junta

    i did try  to plan a trip to GRAZ 2 years on the trot 1 person came on the second year

    this year i shall just go on my own and save my breath 

    and 90% of our members G are over 10 years old official (old clunkers)

    i am a member of the harley owners out here in Thailand and once a month

    the area reps organize trips sumui / golden triangle / Burma / Malaysia / Cambodia ect

​    its there job !!!! the rest of us just have to drink beer and turn up

      i live in hope that things will change 

                             Adrian

    

    

No probs.

 

I was out there this afternoon.  Met up with a mate of mine in his Suzuki... saw one vehicle all afternoon!

Caroline, if you want to put a Salisbury Plain day on the calender I'll make the drive down from the Naaaarth, perhaps we could get a convoy started picking  people up on the way.

I'm sure Jamie would be up for being our guide

Gordon O

If the date drifts out towards March I might make an appearance in the Stealth Wagen :-) expect to be road testing it around then.

It's software made by Ordnance survey, so just a computerised OS map.

 

Plug in a GPS receiver to your laptop/ipad/ or in my case, carPC, and you get live mapping of where you are. being Os the maps have all the byways/RUPPS etc on them (although my version isn't the latest so some are now RB's or just totally closed/bridleways)

 

I only asked as I have several SPTA routes i can email over if people are interested in whats about.

I have spent some more time looking into this insurance matter. One thing is clear - if we want to organise or hold meets involving 'inviting' gwoa members or guests 'we' as a club need insurance to protect itself and the organisers of these events from any potential claim. The best move is as I keep finding is for the club to become an affiliated member of the MSA along with this comes insurance for events and it's organisers. I am not a member of the committee and have not been officially asked to do this research . It costs a modest amount to join the msa and abiding by the terms of the event insurance is not onerous . Over to our reps and full committee for consideration.

Agreed jim . The statement of I am going from here join me if you want to come is fine . But if the area rep. Wants to organise a meet up via the forum and it is a gwoa event and then someone has a injury or suchlike while they are taking part in a club event the law can take a view that the club has a duty of care and the land owner will not wish to be liable to a claim, I know this sounds a bit cheesy but we need to be able to make a rep. Who organises an event safe from liability. If it goes badly wrong you could lose your shirt . The insurance to make it possible for the club to be able to host events at private offroading sites and land would give the regional reps. So much more scope to organise exciting events, this kind of insurance is not horribly expensive and the club could afford to do this . It just requires the will of the management to get the cover put in place .

Hi Guys / Girls 

The Club is currently looking into insurance for these Events that is much needed to keep everything covered

Eunan (Donegal G ) And Buckalec  and Needamerc  and Myself have ran The Donegal Weekend for 4/5 years without any insurance that would have been needed for the Off Road Part 

What we done was the land that we used for our off roading I printed a Disclaimer with the details of the land and landowner

With  details of the Driver , Passengers  , Vehicle and Reg number and gave one to everyone to fil in and sign That we wouldnt be making any claims for Damages or loss,s to the landowner but would pay for any Damage done to this Land 

We never had any problems but would prefer something in place Asap