Devonport Yacht Club Dinghy Locker Use Guidelines

The Devonport Yacht Club has 69 storage lockers on the clubhouse site.

These are available to full members for storage of equipment related to yacht club membership. In general, this means Dinghies and related equipment, equipment related to haulage activities and other possible uses agreed by the general committee.

Safety Rules around locker use.

1. No inflammables in lockers including solvents and solvent based paints. This is a requirement of our insurance policy. In particular:

a. No solvent-based paints

b. No oil, particularly engine oil Outboard Motors: Storage of outboard motors is permitted (and OK with our Insurance Company) but not encouraged as obviously the fuel is inflammable. Please note your intention to store an OB on your application form so we can track this. Also store with care, preferably upright and ensure that fuel cannot leak out. The club may revisit this in future.

2. No personal locks. Lock must be the official DYC padlock as supplied by the club locksmith, presently Scott Richardson.

3. All contents must belong to the hiree.

The Yacht Club reserves the right to inspect locker contents to ensure compliance

Hierarchy for the allocation of lockers

1) Storage of a dingy or other small craft and equipment used primarily to access a moored boat or function as boat tender.

2) Storage of equipment associated with boats hauled for maintenance.

3) Storage of boat related items where:

a) The boat may be elsewhere such as a marina

b) Items retained after a boat has been disposed of

4) Multiple lockers, where supply allows, may be allocated where one is used for a tender for a boat moored and used in Torpedo Bay and a second is used to store haulage related equipment. Multiple lockers are not a right and are allocated at the discretion of the officer responsible.

5) Other non-boat related items. In this case use of the locker must be understood to be temporary and the locker must be vacated on request.

The Yacht Club reserves the right to ask a member holding a type 3b or 4 locker to vacate the locker where it is needed for types 1, 2 or 3a above. Such a request will take into account conditions such as length of time without active use of items in the locker and locker holders activity at the club.

Relinquishing Lockers

To relinquish use of the locker the Site Master must be informed, the locker cleared and cleaned, outstanding hireage paid and the key returned. The holder remains responsible for the locker until these steps are completed. Lockers can only be allocated by the Site Master and cannot be made available to another member directly.

Lockers allocated for Yacht Club use

A number of lockers are allocated for specific Yacht Club Functions such as storage of haulage and maintenance equipment, Sailing Committee and Clubhouse Captain items.

Maintenance issues

Any issues of maintenance should be referred to the site manager in a timely manner.

The DYC reserves the right to issue or withdraw the use of a locker in line with the above guidelines

Application form to complete for a dinghy locker is available here.