Minutes

1. Mark Kurzava was elected Classic Fleet Coordinator

2. Mike Jue was elected sec./treasurer (How did I let that happen?)

3. Dues will be $35/boat/yr. (same as last year.)

Please send me a check made out to Mike Jue since the fleet doesn’t have our own bank account.

4. There is a race committee seminar put on by Stan Betts on 1/11/03. $30 pre-paid/$35 at the door.

Talk to Bill Jenkins if you want to go.

5. PCC’s will be 5/23, 24, 25

We plan to invite out-of-towners for a week of festivities starting with,

Bay to Bay and Luau Sun, 5/17 MBYC TNT Thurs, 5/22 PCC Fri – Sun., 5/23-25

Monday 5/26 is Memorial Day so people will have that day for travel.

PCC’s will be promoted as a serious event for the top boats and a fun, but still competitive event for slower teams and classics. There will be a Classic Division with trophies if enough boats pre-register.

Pre-registered fees will be $50. Late reg. Fees will be more.

Will include 2 dinners, beer on Friday, and discounted rum drinks on Sat.

Dan is currently looking for sponsors. Sailing Supply has already committed.

Dan, PCC committee chairperson, expects between 23 and 45 boats to attend

6. Classic loaner boat “School Bus” should be ready by January.

Roger has already repaired the deck and the mast step/CB trunk cap. Deck needs refinishing and boat needs rigging.

Bob Woodcock graciously is allowing the fleet to put the boat in his driveway and use his tools while he and Meg are skiing all over BC during the next few months.

7. Fleet decided to designate some “B” events as dedicated recruiting events.

We need to decide which ones and the format.

Mike J. voiced some concern about flying spinnakers right-away with total rookies in a race situation. We don’t want to scare a newbie off too quickly. Most of the fleet disagreed.

Maybe we could designate the 1st race of the day to be sans spinnaker and then allow them in the remaining races.

8. Dan will get himself designated as an official class measurer so he can measure in all of our old classic fleet. The cost per boat for a measurement certificate will be joining the U.S. 505 fleet association. Class rules require both a measurement cert. and class membership to participate in the PCC’s. Plus it doesn’t cost that much to join, you get Tank Talk, and you support the awesome Int’l website we all use so much.

9. NOOD update. Bill J. Consensus is that we want to do this again. 3/14-16

It was noted that you need to be a US Sailing member and that fees are $90/ boat.

Many commented that this was a fun regatta last year and a good way to show off the 505 to bored lead-mine crews.

10. Calendar will have most of the same events as last year, but the SCRA races are still TBD.

11. We are to do RC for Thistle Midwinters 1/24-26.

We are also to do race committee on 3/23, and for the Cat Fight 4/26-27

24 Jan: Geoff 25 Jan: Bill J, Steve, Mike?, Rick, Chris Stomberg 26 Jan: Chris St, Mark K, Ben, Bryce

23 March: ???

26 April: Mark K, Bob, Rick, Chris Stomberg 27 April: Ben, Bryce, Bill J

12. MBYC work day is Sat. 3/1

13. Code Red – Fleet expresses enthusiasm to pick a meaningful distance race course with which to create an ongoing record setting competition. Members of the fleet would keep an eye on the weather and go when the conditions look right for good wind and an opportunity to break a record. The idea is to get us out sailing in the best winds San Diego gets, typically when we have to work.

Course is TBD. Some members proposed that this course should not be the B2B course so as not to detract from that event. Others recommended that the course start at/near mission bay so we reduce pre-sail logistics like moving trailers or taking down masts and putting them back up. Any ideas are welcome.

1. MBYC to SDYC 2. MB to Scripps Pier and back. 3. ??