Joining Procedure
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WE NEED YOU
If you enjoy boats and the boating, join Coastal Patrol!If you value human life and want to help your local community, join Coastal Patrol!
Help make Australia's coast safer for every small vessel, join Coastal Patrol!
Help is Always Needed
With the growing popularity and use of our coastal waterways for sailing and power boating, increasing demands are being made on the Coastal Patrol. Your help is needed - as a sea going member, or as a shore-based member, assisting with radio watch, or other duties; it just depends on your interests, skills, time available and willingness to learn.
Membership - what's Involved.
Coastal Patrol is a fully volunteer organisation. Membership is open to any person over the age of 18 years. Membership involves an obligation to provide time to the Patrol on a regular basis, serving as part of one of the Patrol's watches.
The Patrol has several activity streams that allow for a wide range of fitness and skill levels for members of all ages. While the key focus of the organisation is boats and boating not all members wish to be involved in sea going duties. Some members choose to undertake only Marine Radio duties, others elect to be involved only in administration, fund raising or public relations activities.
Central Coast Division operates with five watches, a midweek watch Monday to Friday between 0600 hours and 1800 hours, and four rotating weekend watches that operate from 1800 hours Friday to 1800 hours Sunday and Public Holidays. The time commitment for members choosing to work midweek is about 4 hours weekly, at the same time on the same day each week. For those choosing weekend duty the commitment is for one weekend each four weeks.
The Patrol is almost totally self-funded, relying on the local community for support. Members must be prepared to assist in fund raising activities when requested. Those who assist with Administration participate when available any day of the week. Members attend a monthly Mess Meeting, for information sharing and an interesting guest speaker on subjects of relevance to Patrol activities. All members undertake an Induction Course (half day) and must obtain a Marine Radio Operators licence. Those wishing to undertake boat duties must have a current Boat Drivers licence. All members must have competency in First Aid.
Membership Costs:
There is a joining fee and an annual membership fee and cost is currently about $1 per week.
Interested?
Then pick up the phone and call 4325 7929 or use our online membership application form to make an application to communicate with the Divisional Commander.
