Grosse Pointe Sail Club

Board of Directors Meeting

JANUARY 4, 2005

P Commodore Glory Ann Schappe P Director Elizabeth Kurta

P Vice Commodore Thomas Fraser P Director David MacDonald

P Rear Commodore Kenneth Suddick P Director Christopher Behler

P Past Commodore Gerald Partridge P Director Robert Brownell

(P = Present Ex = Excused A = Absent)

Meeting called to order at: 1902 Hours

Com. Schappe, to foster a greater understanding on the part of all Bridge and Committee Chairs present, prefaced the meeting with how the 2005 meetings will be conducted during her term in office.

BRIDGE REPORTS

Secretary – Dave MacDonald (P). Nominated as Secretary by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of Directors. Motion made to accept the December 2004 minutes in lieu of the November 2004 Board Meeting minutes. Accepted.

Treasurer – Bill Kuester (P). Nominated as Treasurer by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of Directors. Reported that the Club was $1500 to the good in 2004. Reported on the CD’s. Report accepted.

Fleet Captains – Darius Hummel (P), Kenneth Thelen (P). Nominated as Fleet Captains by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of Directors. No Report.

Fleet Surgeon – Ronald Strickler, M.D. (E). Nominated as Fleet Surgeon by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of Directors. No report.

Fleet Chaplain – Harry Capps (Working). Nominated as Fleet Chaplain by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of Directors. No report.

Fleet Measurer – Mark Craig (P). Nominated as Fleet Measurer by Com. Schappe. Approved by the Board of directors. Report: New rule for Bayview’s Port Huron to Mackinaw Race. South Hampton course will require IRC rating. Short course will still be PHRF.

COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Com. Glory Ann Schappe

ANCHORLINE – George Fuller (P), Dale Johnson (P). No report. No narrative for January Anchorline as yet. Bridge to provide ASAP.

BUDGET & FINANCE – Com. Jerry Partridge (P). No report.

DRYA DELEGATE 1 – Com. Larry Haggart (P) DRYA says Cruising class included for all DYRA Regattas. Will do Rum Challenge again this year. Will meet in January to discuss scoring and other plans. Rear Commodore to be involved in the Rum Challenge.

DRYA DELEGATE 2 – Fred Bellamy (A).

ILYA – Christopher Behler (P). Not heard of any election results. Web Site not updated. No 2005 schedule as yet.

ENTERTAINMENT – Prudence and Charles Billiu (P). Spring party will be the Jimmy Buffet theme again. Would appreciate help from new members or anyone else. Dawn to send in an America’s Cup training. Com. Suddick will finish his Entertainment responsibilities with the 2005 ski weekend and Prudy to do the 2006 ski weekend. Lodging still available for 2005 ski weekend.

PUBLICITY – John Hughes (A). No report.

PLANNING – Com. Norman Samra (P) No report.

RISK – Com. Dennis Cotter (E). No report.

ROSTER – Wendy Niven (P), William Harbert (P). Working on it all weekend. Still changes coming in. Target completion date by end of week, January 6 – 7, 2005.

VICE COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Com. Thomas Fraser

DOCK & SUPPLY – Fran Partridge (P), Mary Fraser (E). No report, except that they will try to present and item every month, as was done in the past. Watch cap at the meeting. Will not keep a lot of stock on hand. Because we are doing business thru local suppliers, the orders can be turned around quickly. Watch cap endorsed for its warmth and utility by Com Fraser.

EDP – Mark Minor (E). Got a message from Mark. (I didn’t quite get the narrative here).

MEMBERSHIP – Peter D’Angelo (P). Thanked Ron M. for everything he did on records and carry forward notes. There are 206 current members. Has 1 membership application to discuss later under new business. Will discuss with John Hughes about articles in the Communicator. Soliciting additional ideas for getting new members. Com. Schappe said last year’s efforts were quite effective and would like to see these efforts continued. Com. Haggart commented on letter for life members that would ask them to consider being contributing life members. Letter was done in 2004 and not sent out per Com. Partridge. The Commodores Council has endorsed the letter. Concern about the proper wording to make it more informational.

POWER BOAT – Paul Schaap (A). No report.

RACE – Denise Cotter (P). Completed the on-line application to US Coast Guard (USCG) for the 2005 GPSC Races. Working on DNR paper work and to finalize hardcopy for USCG. Working on changes to SI’s. First Race Committee meeting to be held by end of January 2005.

ASST. RACE –

SENIOR RACE OFFICER – Com. Edward J. Olsen (P) US Sailing revises the Racing Rules of Sailing every 4 years. Only rules affecting our Club appear to be the ‘hold harmless’ clause on the registration form. Have to revise it. Com. Olsen also commented on Asst. Race position being vacant and the importance of being it filled. Com. Schappe has been working hard to fill it.

RACE RECORDS – Joseph Butala (?). No report.

RACE COMMITTEE SUPPORT – Bob Brownell (P), Frank Michell (A). No report

RACE SUPPORT – Robert Sharrow (E). Out of town, no report.

PROTEST – John Sampson (P). No Report.

WEBSITE MANAGER- Larry Socie (A).

REAR COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Com. Kenneth Suddick

ASSETS MANAGER – William Snyder (P). Working on compiling a list of the Club’s assets.

AWARDS – Glenn Housey (P). Com. Suddick turned over notes to Glenn. No report.

CHARTER & BY-LAWS – David Gaskin (P). In possession of the by-laws and the changes passed at the last meeting. Any suggestions for by-law changes, please let David know. Will consider them in a meeting and then present findings to the Board.

CLUB HISTORY – John Jamieson (E). No Report. Com. Suddick would like to see what we currently have regarding Club history with the hope of updating the Club booklet. John writing about the Commodores of the last 5 years. Com. Olsen suggested that the outgoing Commodore must write about the year they finished to complete their term of Office.

DRY DOCK – Joe Lucido (P). First Dry Dock is Feb 2 at Tomkins Center. The topic is First Aid. Second Dry dock is Nov 18. Joe would like suggestions from the Club regarding the theme for that date. Com. Suddick commented that the Feb 2 Dry dock is part of the 2005 DRYA Wednesday night seminars.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS – William Harbert (P). Received an updated DB but several of the email addresses were incorrect. This prevented AOL from sending out the full mailing of the First Aid seminar flyer. Com. Suddick said that some 40 members have not shared their email address with the Club. This impacts timely communication to the full Club membership. Com Suddick encourages the membership to share their email addresses.

JUNIOR RACE – Jim Perrone (A). No report.

REGATTA – Christopher Behler (P). Has the form for the USCG to be filled out. There was discussion on the lead time needed by the USCG for holding a maritime event. Chris to adhere to the 135 day rule.

ASST REGATTA – Thomas Caulfield (A). No report.

VIDEO/PHOTOGRAPHY – Judy Grady (E) Judy will be doing the videos on the Tuesday night race nights again this year. Com. Fraser volunteered to take the videos to Marge’s after each Sundown Series Race.

OLD BUSINESS

Com Schappe discussion:

• Updating of by-laws discussion.
• Renewed honorary memberships (Dawn Riley and Palmer Heenan). Secretary will inform each of them of their continued membership via a letter (to be signed by Com. G. Schappe). Email address for both needed by our Electronic Communicator, Bill Harbert.
• Turnover notes discussion. Anyone present at the Board Meeting not have them? Mark Craig does not have any. They were then verbally communicated by Bob Brownell. Com. Haggert didn’t receive any either.

Larry Haggart discussion:

• Group number to renew Boat US discount. Good for towing.
• DRYA to have sailing seminars again, beginning Jan 19. Information can be found on the DRYA website. Great series of seminars. Highly recommended. Should be highlighted in the Anchorline. DRYA did sent out a flyer on this year’s seminars. Each club is expected to inform their membership. GPSC will accomplish this via the Electronic Communicator.

NEW BUSINESS

Com Schappe discussion:

• Keep the new membership drive alive. Paul Kraft application entered for consideration. Interests are Awards and Entertainment. Norm Samra knows the Kraft brothers and endorses them.
• Club Calendar distributed to those present at the meeting.
• March and April, George Fuller is out of town. Please send articles to Dale for those months.

C. Behler discussion:

• Pat Clark interested in having a cruising seminar regarding past summer’s events. The membership in attendance would like to see this done. C. Behler to have something for consideration at the next Board meeting.

David Gaskin discussion:

• Inquiry about insurance concerning both individuals and the Club. May ask Risk Chair to look at this. Revised US Sailing instructions no longer apply. Racers should be insured for their liability. Club has a broad liability policy through Chubb that covers the Club, but not the sailor.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Com Schappe discussion:

• Order and billed for a new Burgee for the Tomkins Center.
• Winter Weekend coming up. Rooms available.
• DRYA sailing seminars
• Use Website
• Call our Fleet Chaplain re: surgeries, etc
• Race Officer Training and Certification at Bayview. Information can be found on the DRYA Website. We need more race management in the Club.

The next GPSC Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 1900 hours at Tom’s Oyster Bar on Mack Avenue.

There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 2015 hours.

Respectively submitted,

Dave MacDonald, Secretary