Grosse Pointe Sail Club
Board of Directors Meeting
March 1, 2005
P Commodore
Glory Ann Schappe
P Director Elizabeth Kurta
P Vice
Commodore Thomas Fraser
P Director David MacDonald
E Rear
Commodore Kenneth Suddick
E Director Christopher
Behler
P Past
Commodore Gerald Partridge
P Director Robert Brownell
(P = Present Ex
= Excused A = Absent)
Meeting called to order at: 1906 Hours
By Commodore
Glory Ann Schappe
BRIDGE REPORTS
Secretary – Dave
MacDonald (P) Copies of the minutes of the February 2005 GPSC Board Meeting and
the March agenda were distributed to all in attendance. A motion was made to forego the reading of
the minutes. Motion approved. It was asked that the minutes be
reviewed. After a quick review and no
forthcoming recommendations to change the minutes, a motion was made to accept
the minutes as written. Motion
approved.
Treasurer – Bill
Kuester (P). A Budget summary was
handed out. At present, the Club is
taking in more than we spend. Ball
photographer’s bill has not been received yet.
Mr. Kuester to see Glen regarding a check for the flag order. All is in good shape. Motion to accept the Budget report. Motion approved.
Fleet Captains – Darius
Hummel (P), Kenneth Thelen (P). We have
verbal dates from Belle River for the June Rendezvous. A deposit needs to be sent to confirm the
commitment. Mr. Kuester to take care of
the matter.
Fleet Surgeon – Ronald
Strickler, M.D. (P) No report
Fleet Chaplain – Harry
Capps (E)
Fleet Measurer – Mark
Craig (A)
COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Glory Ann Schappe
ANCHORLINE – George
Fuller (P), Dale Johnson (P). The
March Anchorline is underway. Com.
Fraser to get his article in. George
and Dale would like to come back to a decision made at the last GPSC Board
meeting regarding old issues of the Anchorline’s being in the Members only
section of the web site. It has been
observed that other clubs have their newsletters in the public area of their
web sites. It is viewed as good
advertising. A motion was made to put the
current issue of the Anchorline on the web site accessible by the general
public. PC Jerry Partridge added to
discussion. He noted that the history
for putting the Anchorline in the members-only section of the web site is that
the Anchorline contains member’s names, phone numbers and web addresses. It was decided that the Anchorline would be
edited to remove these references before publishing it in the GPSC web
site.
BUDGET & FINANCE – PC
Jerry Partridge (P) No report.
DRYA DELEGATE 1 – PC
Larry Haggart (E)
DRYA DELEGATE 2 – Fred
Bellamy (P) No report.
ILYA – Christopher Behler (E) In Mexico with other GPSC members.
ENTERTAINMENT – Prudence
and Charles Billiu (E) Mr. Kuester's review of the Spring Party plan indicates
it is well under control and will feature the finest of entertainment and
entertainers.
PUBLICITY – John
Hughes (A)
PLANNING – PC
Norman Samra (P) No report
RISK – PC Dennis Cotter (P) The February Race
Committee meeting discussed the new Racing Rules of Sailing regarding the “hold
harmless” disclaimer in the Race Registration form. Hold harmless is no longer allowed. One of the concerns expressed at Race Committee meeting was about
the Race Patrol Boat directing traffic--at least one member was alarmed at the
possibility of lawsuits. PC Cotter
stated that we have Regatta coverage, although it is not spelled out as such in
the insurance policy. Broker in Chicago
says we have it implicitly. We will not
need to buy additional insurance coverage.
What we have is sufficient. The
“hold harmless” disclaimer was redrafted based on the DRYA wording. Which no longer states, “hold harmless”, but
willing to assume the risk. PC Cotter
offered a copy of the language for review.
End of report.
ROSTER – Wendy
Niven (), William Harbert (P) No report.
Mr. Harbert hasn’t spoken to Wendy in 3 weeks.
VICE COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Thomas Fraser
DOCK & SUPPLY – Fran
Partridge (P), Mary Fraser (P) Dock & Supply will have a table at the Jimmy
Buffet party. Please give them a call
if you see something from Anchorline ad.
Down to one box of outdated supplies at the present time, and these will
be offered at reduced prices at the Spring Party.
EDP – Mark Minor
(A)
MEMBERSHIP – Peter
D’Angelo (A)
POWER BOAT – Paul
Schaap (A)
RACE – Denise Cotter
(P) Things are progressing. The biggest
issue was “hold harmless” subject. The
cannons were sent in for refurbishing.
We will have a new mounting board for the cannons also. PC Haggart verifying the course headings in
the SI’s for accuracy. Next Race
meeting is March 15.
ASST. RACE
– Fred Baer (E)
SENIOR RACE
OFFICER – PC Edward J. Olsen (A)
RACE
RECORDS – Joseph Butala (P) No
report.
RACE
COMMITTEE SUPPORT – Bob Brownell (P), Frank Michell (P) No report.
RACE
SUPPORT – Robert Sharrow ()
Looking for volunteers for dock duty.
Incentive is free admission to the Fall Awards Party. David Charvat signed up to do 2/3 of mark
boat assignments. Tom Fraser to handle
recruitment duty for Buffet party. Mr.
Sharrow was asked to do an article regarding which positions he needs filled.
PROTEST – John Sampson (P) there were no races. Therefore, there were no protests. End of report.
WEBSITE MANAGER- Larry
Socie (E)
REAR COMMODORE’S COMMITTEES – Kenneth Suddick
ASSETS MANAGER – William
Snyder () He had no report to give.
AWARDS – Glenn
Housey () the flag order has been made.
Salvaged a great many flags from prior years. Only 54 flags needed to be ordered this year, saving the GPSC a
great deal of money.
CHARTER & BY-LAWS – David
Gaskin (A) There is a need to rework
the GPSC by-laws. Commodore Schappe
asked if anyone had the electronic form of the by-laws. An email will be sent to Greg Wheeler to
acquire his copy.
CLUB HISTORY – John
Jamieson (E)
DRY DOCK – Joe
Lucido (E)
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS – William Harbert (P) Advised those present that he receives
requests to send out information to Club Members, but some do not have to do
with club business. The passing of
Warren Jones is an example. Mr. Harbert
asked the Bridge for review and approval on this matter and received it. Mr. Harbert stated that he cannot honor
requests if they do not pertain to Club business. He will refer those requests to the Bridge. There are still 35 Members not on the email
list. They are not receiving the
electronic communication notices and as a result will miss this
information. It was left open as to
whether those communications should go by post card or letter to the 35 not on
the email list.
JUNIOR RACE – Jim
Perrone (P) Researched the clubs who would accept non-members. BYC and Crescent will. Mr. Perrone has email contacts at these
clubs. BYC has a 2 and 3 week sailing
instruction. Kids must be eight years
or older. Commodore Schappe asked for
an Anchorline article on the subject.
BYC Registration deadline is April 15.
Edison would perhaps like to partner with us on Jr. Sailing but neither
club owns the needed type of boat so this would be a problem.
REGATTA – Christopher
Behler (E) Still in Mexico.
ASST REGATTA – Thomas Caulfield (P) Attended the DRYA meeting on
Regattas. Regatta registration is in to
the Coast Guard. DNR said we don’t have
to register with them if we are registered with the USCG, but we will continue
to provide it to be on the safe side.
VIDEO/PHOTOGRAPHY – Judy
Grady (E)
No old business
Commodore Schappe has
new business.
1. Effort underway by Andrea Solak to help
others through a blood drive. Andrea is
working with Com. Suddick on this. She
is also working with the Red Cross. The
idea is to pattern the event after the Leukemia Cup. Crews would compete on giving blood. The Tuesday the week of the GPSC Regatta is being
considered. Discussion. Do crews have the time? Fleet Surgeon stated that there may be an
issue of giving blood and then racing right after. Normally it is recommended not to do any physical activity for 24
hours after giving blood. PC Bob
Schappe suggested a pledge of blood instead.
2. Final DRYA Sailing Seminar is March 23. All Clubs are invited to hand out
information about their particular Club.
Commodore Schappe wants a flyer handout; she will contact John Hughes on
this.
3. The topic was brought up about posting the
minutes of the GPSC Board meetings on the GPSC web site. It would tie people into the club a bit
more. New idea. Any thoughts? PC Samra suggested that it be put in Members-only sections. The by-laws allow for access to the minutes
by Active members, with some restrictions.
Can we determine hits against the posted minutes to determine if they
are accessed or not? TBD. It was decided to proceed. The Secretary can process the minutes the
weekend after the Board meeting and send them to Commodore Schappe for review.
1. The Committee
Chair information sheets were reviewed for accuracy. An update and reissue will be forthcoming.
2. The web site has a
new front page and a for sale section.
3. DRYA seminar,
Basic rules of sailing at Great Lakes tomorrow evening at GLYC.
4. Race Seminar March
19 at BYC. Go into BYC website for
registration. Deadline is March 4. There is no requirement to take the exam at
the end of the seminar.
5. PC Partridge
announced that next month, on April 23, the Commodores steak roast (or chicken
if you like) will be held. It will be
the highlight of April. Look for a
full-page advertisement in the Anchorline.
6. 2005 Roster
question. When will it be
published? Wendy had to revert back to
the old software, which has caused the delay.
7. Pictures in
process from the Commodore’s Ball.
The next GPSC Board
meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 1900 hours at Tom’s Oyster
Bar.
There being no
further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 1959
hours.
Respectively
submitted,
Dave MacDonald,
Secretary