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Annual MITNA Meeting 2016

Thu 13-Apr-2017

19:15-20:15

Results

 

Hatch Brown Service Award: Scott Dynes

 

Commodore: Trevor Long

Vice Commodore: Tobias Kaiser

Secretary: David Larson

Treasurer: Sameena Shaffeeullah

Members At Large:

Eric Gibber

Karen Wepsic 

Hanna Vincent

Stewart Craig

Bill Herrington 

Team Racing Chair: Jeff Dusek

Race Committee Chair: John Pratt

Team Captains (2017-2018):

TBD at the end of the season

 

• Opened

• Team News:

MITNA Meeting

4/13/2017

o Women’s team went to nationals in San Diego, 2016. Finished 8th
o Coed Team Racing just qualified for TR Nationals (Charleston) for the first time in

program history last weekend

• Lynx News:

  o This past summer was smaller than previous summers, but still above the minimum recorded

• Offshore News:

o Halifax race coming up followed by cruising in Maine
o Summer post-race cruising is already oversubscribed so previous plan to pull XD

in August to start work on the deck may be pushed back to a full sailing season

and pulling in October• Learn to Sail:

o 750 attendees between the two learn to sail classes (Wednesday/Sunday)
o People finding Wednesday more popular, and distribution is becoming more

balanced between the two days
o Also seeing a higher return rate for day 2, > 90% because it’s the following day,

rather than waiting a week, but still only about 50% coming back for day 3
o Good volunteer turnout, ~40 over the two classes, a few would help with both

classes (day 1 & day 2, vs just one of the days)
o Interest to expand to other boats. Collin already interested in continuing with

the 420s, looking for lasers, flies, foiling?

• Windsurfing News:

  o 13 classes + unscheduled
  o Probably 100+ new ratings
  o All of the new gear is in finally
  o Hope to get more instructors and starting Friday classes soon

• Moth/Foiling News:

o Moth in need of significant repair (bulkhead falling out), but still got quite a lot of

use last summer
o Hoping to get 2 UFO’s soon

§ Demo day on 4/22

• Team Racing News:

  o Fairly well attended as usual

• Firefly Fleet Racing News:

  o Hugh started this over the summer on Fridays
  o Good idea, although low turnout, probably could help with some more

  advertising

• Tech Racing News:

o Younger crowd turning out more for Tuesday night racing, including a bunch of Northeastern sailing team

o Desire to increase the number of new/younger people joining the racing fleets, room to grow/improve the regular racing fleet size

o Maybe an intermediate learn to race/race day (or maybe separate fleet?) for people new to racing, coming out of the learn to sail realm

• Adjourned

For details about this event, see http://sailing.mit.edu/mitna/

Organizers

Questions about this event should be directed to the organizer(s): MITNA Exec