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IWCA Class Meeting December 1, 2005

Attendees:

• Rick White
• Mary Wells
• Kathy Kulkoski
• Dan Kulkoski
• Mary Lou Chambers
• Sharon Woodruff
• Stan Woodruff
• Barb Short
• Chip Short
• Leah Soares
• Linwood
• Brett Moss
• Bob Bergstedt
• Jim Glanden
• Dave White

Meeting called to order by Rick White at 7:16pm.

Old Business:

• We’d like to get more people involved;
• Barb is trying to get some funding from the tourist development council for our event next year;
• had 3 other big events (Put-In-Bay, NJ w/18 boats and Penseicola w/23 boats);
• need to keep building local fleets,
• finding used boats and making racing accessible.

New Business:

• Courses:
  • Rick would like standard course and a new X course to be added to class rules;
  • Stan suggests that we require at least x% of the courses to be our standard;
  • rules committee to consider adding courses to our class rules this winter.
• Length of courses:
  • some discussion on how long a race or leg should take;
  • rules committee to investigate options and consider adding to class rules. ·
• Oct 2006 Wave event: can’t call it a Worlds; will be at Club Med. ·
• Rule simplification:
  • Chip is single point of contact for this;
  • some discussion about rudder systems since Hobie has a new system;
  • use of non-Hobie parts to save money;
  • changes will be posted this winter for vote at meeting in December 2006.
• Election: only position up for re-election is measurer – currently Dan – unanimous to keep Dan as measurer.