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Annual MITNA Meeting

Mon 27-Nov-201718:00-19:30

Results

11/27/2017 MITNA Meeting Notes

 

- Sailing team is great

    - good job dockstaff

    - excited, but not too excited

- Racing

    - Full season of advanced racing in techs

    - Mondays/Tuesdays

        - Several hundred people

        - Ran out of techs

        - “Need more techs”

    - Team racing during the summer

        - CRO

            - 16 teams

            - Ran well

            - Everyone on the water at the same time

            - 21 races per team

    - Brass Rat

        - Would like to see more young people participate

    - Given up on Thursday intermediate racing

    - Learn to race - 8 or 9 classes, someone showed up to every class

            - Enthusiastic group

 

- Bluewater

    - X-Dim decommissioned

    - Fran up in Vermont checking out next potential bluewater boat

        - Fave: classic wooden boat

            - 30’ ft at waterline

            - LOA 50’, deck 45’

                - $1M in renovations

 

- Sailing classes

    - LTS

        - Total of 15 Sunday classes

        - 350 Students

        - 354 students in midweek classes

        - Smaller classes, more focus on commitment to coming to all midweek classes

            - Consecutive days vs three Wednesdays in a row helped a great deal

        - Almost 6 straight months of classes

    - Lynx

        - May to Nov

            - 19 classes, 70 people

    - Firefly

        - 9 classes, 39 people

    - Lasers

        - 16 classes, 50 people

    - 420s

        - 4 classes, 21 people

    - Windsurfing

        - 8 classes, 54 people

        - Algae bloom

        - Good motorboat availability per class

        - Wally won’t repair sails after certain point, need new beginner sails

 

- Moonlight sail every month we were open

    - 100+ at most

    - Biggest was 275 people in 6 catboats

    - “Good season”

    - Replacing rails

    - First full moon of next year falls on opening weekend

 

- Elections

    - Commodore - Trevor Long

    - Vice Commodore - Annie Hughes

    - Treasurer - Tiffany Xi

    - Secretary - Emily Haig

    - RC - John Pratt

    - Team Race Chair – David Larson

    - Members at Large - Hanna Vincent, Eric Gibber, Alex Bost, Alpha Sanneh, Nathan Volchko

 

- Hatch Brown Service Award

    - Nominations

        - Gary Lifton

        - Bruce Porter

        - Mark Throop

    - All won, good job

 

Organizers

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


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Updated: 2014/05/04 19:06:46
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Updated: 2014/05/04 19:06:46