Election of board members is coming up shortly.

1. Is there anyone we, cat sailors, should be supporting?

2. Is anyone planning to attend the annual meeting in St. Petersburg, Oct. 18 ?

The nominees selected by the Nominating and Governance Committee will be announced late next week. The nominees will be preparing bios well in advance of the election, and you will have an opportunity to contact them with questions should you wish to do so.

Also happening right now - N&GC is preparing for the annual review of the Board's performance. This year, the review will include individual interviews and a Q&A session. The results of the review and interviews will be given in St. Pete. I will be travelling directly to St. Pete from the F18 Championship in Pensacola.

While on the subject, the Nominating Committee of the Multihull Council is preparing a slate for election, too. Half the Area Reps and all of the ExCom (including yours truly) is up for election. Talk to your Area Rep now, make yourself heard.

The MHC Nominating Committee consists of:

Don Atchley, acting Vice Chair
Adam Borcherding, Area G Rep
Mike Hensel, Area L Rep
Dave Ingram, Area D Rep

Area Reps up for election:

Area A – Chris Titcomb
Area C – Mark Santorelli
Area E – Mark Batchelor
Area F – John Tomko
Area J – Scott Miller

I nominate Jake's smoking Chimp!

Pete, the following from the Northwest plan on attending the US SAILING AGM in St. Petersburg: Don Atchley, acting Vice Chair MHC, Mike Hensel, area L rep, Caleb Tarleton MHC. In additon, there will be a least a dozen additional NW members active in leadership roles attending.

I have attended the past seven AGM's and have seen the reduction of Multihull Sailors attending and taking part in other sessions. This has not helped our cause. Hope to meet you there.

Caleb Tarleton

As chairman of the One-Design Class Council, I will be there.

Don't forget that all multihull classes that are members of US Sailing have a vote in the ODCC, too.

It'll be good to finally meet you face-to-face, Caleb.

I'm planning on attending after the NAF18's also. Looking forward to hearing from you Pete.

Dave

Hope to see you all there.

The thing I value most from USS is the Alter Cup. Have there been any attempts to make it more main stream? The locals at Gulfport were really impressed with the last Cup. It's my understanding they want some type of annual event to coincide with their Spring festival.

The Alter Cup and the Area qualifiers move from venue to venue every year. With the AC it's often to accommodate the manufacturer providing the boats. I'm sure Jake and John could provide further info here.

As for moving the Area qualifiers I like the idea of moving the event North and South every year so the burden of traveling to the event is somewhat offset every other year. There are multiple clubs wanting to host the Area Qualifiers which for me as an area rep is a very good thing.

Dave

That's great. For many years the area qualifer was always held up in the Panhandle. And on top of that, nobody ever notified the sailors down in the Florida peninsula. We usually found out about it after it was over. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

In Area "C" we try to move it between New Jersey and Maryland so th traveling burden is not always on the same group of sailors

HarryMurphey
P19MX/CRAC
TheMightyHobie18/Fleet54

FYI: I just renewed my US Sailing membership ... but I moved from a "Family" membership to "The Multihull Council" just so my loyalties were clear to US Sailing!!!! I may "slum" on a Laser time to time ...
BUT I AM A MULTIHULLER!!!!!