Harper Lake Model Yacht Club
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Harper Lake Model Yacht Club
Harper Lake Model Yacht Club Meeting Minutes March 21, 2015 Open Meeting Commodore Don Verhaeghe opened the meeting at 10:15 AM at the shop of James Hayward, in Louisville, CO. Those in attendance were: Commodore – Don Verhaeghe Bill McGregor Vice Commodore – Roy Tanner Secretary/ Treasurer – Ken Hegy Bill Sherrell Richard Ball Stew Williams Leland Dong Linda Townsend Chuck Drake Tom Quesenbery James Hayward Ron Johnanson I would once again like to thank James Hayward for letting the club use his shop for the last three months for our meetings. It is greatly appreciated. We had thirteen skippers present for the meeting on a beautiful Colorado day. Thanks to Ron Johanson for bringing doughnuts. . What a welcome surprise and a tasty treat. Secretary/Treasurer Report The club currently has 22 paid members and a positive balance in the Treasury. We had no expenditures in February. Other Officer Reports No report Regatta Schedule The monthly Club Regatta schedule for 2015 is posted on the web site at http://hlmyc.org. Old Business Race Directors Instructions for Victoria and ODOM Regattas. Tom Quesenbery had volunteered, at the February meeting, to put together a set of guidelines for the race Directors for our monthly Victoria and ODOM Regattas. These guidelines will help ensure continuity between the regattas. Some of the guidelines may be read as a refresher before each Regatta, such as staying clear of the start line, no dip starts allowed, and a reminder to skippers to keep track of the boat ahead at the finish line to enable the score keeper to accurately record the finishing order. The guidelines are attached, and I suggest all read and become familiar with them. New Business Colorado Crew Invitation Ken Hegy announced the Colorado Crew has invited the HLMYC to their annual Regatta at Keystone Resort, to be held on August 15 -16. This is a really fun, relaxing event. If you go to their web site, (http://thecoloradocrew.org) you can see just what types of powered boats they bring. That is, however, the weekend of our August ODOM regatta. If there are enough ODOM skippers who want to go to Keystone, we could reschedule our Regatta. I will pass on updates from The Colorado Crew as I get them, using the current club members list. Roy Tanner suggested the current members list also contain the class of boat and the boat number for each individual. The secretary will update the list accordingly, and send it out. Rules of Racing Clinic by Don Verhaeghe. Thanks to Don for all his effort putting together and conducting this informative clinic. Don passed out an excellent summary of the rules of racing, and applicable diagrams of situations that frequently apply to our regattas. Don started out by going over start/finish line protocols. We use multiple buoys at the start line, so we can maintain the best heading to the windward marks. A suggestion was made to establish a fixed finish line for the Regattas. The line would consist of the single outer ball, and the middle ball of the three balls at start line. This would eliminate trying to remember which set of balls define the finish line. All agreed that was a good idea, so we will implement that suggestion. This will only apply to one lap races and not extended races. Don then reviewed: Boat right of ways Overlap Start line barging. He then passed out a quiz consisting of seven different rules scenarios. Each situation was discussed and the proper answer with the applicable rule discussed. Overall there was a lot of good discussion among the members. Everyone should have a better understanding of the rules, which normally come into play at our regattas. The summary of the Racing Rules of Sailing that were passed out are attached. Again, I would encourage members to become familiar with them. I did not include the quiz. Meeting was adjourned at 1:00 PM Minutes Transcribed by HLMYC Secretary Ken Hegy