2009 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, FEBRUARY RESULTS

Congrats to Nicholas Bostic of Jacksonville, FL. Nicholas is the winner of the second Hobie harness, AND HE'S A HOBIE YOUT!!!

The January winner was Jeff Griffin of Ventura, IA.

March results will be announced soon.

Later in the year, we will be having a Divisional contest. We want to see which Divisions can grow the most, and who can be the biggest overall. Details of this will follow, but the only way you can win is to pay your dues, and get lots of others to do the same!

To join, go here: www.hcanamembers.com

Paper form is here: http://www.hcana.hobieclass.com/sit...bership/2009/2009MembershipAp08Dec08.pdf

HCA MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:

The most obvious benefits of joining are:

* Eligibility to race in Hobie events, from points regattas to international championships
* Eligibility to be scored in the North American ranking system
* Support of the Hobie Hotline, our newsletter

How do we use membership dues?

* Class Promotion
* Guest Expert Programs
* Youth Programs
* Standardized Racing
* NAs event support
* Racer support programs
* Regatta materials for fleets and divisions
* Racing Seminars
* Regatta Insurance

Mike

PS: If any of the following apply to you, feel free to NOT respond here:

You don't want to join.
You're afraid to join.
Someone rained on your parade and you have issues that have nothing to do with this raffle.

I'm glad to see someone with the Courage to try and reestablish the Hobie Class Association. I don't follow Hobie Class Policy or Politics anymore, But you may want to speak to the folks at HCA who chased us all away if you want to be successful in this pursuit. Maybe they've learned an devolved.

here we go again

let's focus on building our sport. What Brucat is doing and the energy expended is definitely a positive thing.

Mike is doing an excellent job, and is showing some fantastic results. As far as 're-establishing' anything, I haven't a clue what you're talking about, but 'we' have focused in on building our class(es) on a number of fronts, and Mike is leading the charge with some interesting incentives to build the membership. I could not be happier with what's going on with the HCA right now.
Chris Wessels
HCA Chair 2009