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Hunter Annual
General Meeting 2006 Minutes
28th March 2006, 18:00 pm, Henley Midmar Yacht Club
Committee Members: Colin Hay, Jessica Lenz, Tony Cockerill, Mike
Dann
Apologies: Rob Barker, Dave Claxton, Frank Lenz
The outgoing chairman opened meeting at 18H10 where the minutes of
last meeting were accepted - Herbie Karolius proposed and Tony
Cockerill seconded.
Charman’s Report (Colin Hay):
The chairman reported that the class has been healthy with several
boats changing hands. The bridge selection problems forced on us by
SAS had been handled by Jessica. Chris Frost was last years
champion.
There were only four boats at the Northvaal and although there
wasn’t a good turnout there were reasonable winds. The event clashed
for those training for Lipton Cup and the sailing of the Mauritius
race. The Mpumalanga Champs also didn’t have a great turnout but
there were reasonable winds.
Sadly, last year a Hunter sailor, Kurt Ostendorf went down with the
Moqueni, he was a measurer in KZN. The class sent flowers to the
family. Alan Maddon kindly donated a picture which was raffled at
the 2006 Nationals to raise money for the Moqueni Trust.
Support for the 2006 Hunter Nationals has been fantastic – 34
entries. The Hunter Class has had more than 30 boats at the
nationals for more than seven years. The class is healthy and seems
to be growing.
Treasurer’s Report (Jessica Lenz):
The treasurer mentioned that despite initial financial difficulties
due to the cost of the masts, the accounts were looking healthier.
The raffle of the outboard engine donated by Lester Johnstone and
Dicky Manten raised R3,000 for the class. The Schneider sponsorship
brought in R7,000 in it’s first year, R4,000 last year and again
R7,000 this year.
On completing the nationals last year VCA charged the class R200 for
petrol and R4,900 for the Class dinner and drinks for the
mark-layers. We got back to a bank balance of R12,000.
SAS no longer requires the 5% levy on sponsorship and the class
invested R4,500 on a digital scale for weighing boats. This has left
R7,600 in the bank. Midmar charged R150 per boat.
The Hunter accounts were no longer being run by SAS so members were
asked to please pay their class fees at the beginning of each year,
directly into the class bank account and then let the treasurer
(Jessica Lenz) know.
The treasurer suggested that we start looking at budgeting for the
next Nationals and try to build up some cash reserve.
Schneider could increase sponsorship and may get involved in
branding of the Hunter Class clothing. Barry Ogilvie said that the
Schneider sponsorship should be used on the class members and should
not be used to enrich any club or used to build the class reserves.
Its intention was to provide for a great Nationals. This was
discussed further and the cost of the event at Midmar had exceeded
the sponsorship.
Website:
Paul Changuion agreed to takeover the running of the website at the
same cost as was being paid to Dave Claxton. He planned to change
the domain hosting and asked that the current website “electronic
signatories” need to give their permission for this to be done. Paul
felt the e-mail list of all class members was very important – Mike
Dann to forward all the information to Paul.
Election of Office Bearers:
Tony Cockerill was elected chairman, Colin Hay was unable to
continue serving as chairman – thanks to Colin.
Jessica Lenz agreed to continue as treasurer – thanks Jessica.
Terry Pratt elected as secretary – Mike Dann no longer able to be
secretary.
Simon Farrington, Frank Lenz and Andrew Edwards to be measurers at
the Vaal Dam.
Dave Martinson and Colin Hay to be measurers at Witbank.
Rob Barker and Mark Stockhausen to be measurers at Midmar
Nationals 2007:
Next nationals will be held at Witbank Yacht Club. Saturday 24th
March for travelling and boat measurement. Sailing Sunday 25th to
Tuesday 20th March. Packing away and travelling home Wednesday 21st
March (Human Right’s Day).
Technical:
Class rules need to be updated to take into account the change in
size of sail numbers as well as the requirement for the sail number
to appear on both sides of the spinnaker.
A proposal was made to change the Genoa material to Pentex to make
the sail cheaper. Simon Farrington was against as he said Pentex not
suitable for an overlapping sail and would not be cost effective.
Chris Frost suggested exotic materials were lower cost over a longer
time but proposed remaining as is. Barry Ogilvie also suggested
status quo.
All boats to be measured before the next nationals and a proposal
was accepted to create a register of boats weights and with the
corrector weights. This to be started and updated for all boats at
the next Nationals. Dave Martinson proposed that boats be reweighed
every three years.
The new scale would be in the custody of the class chairman.
Class Clothing/Regalia:
General discussion where it was agreed that we could have golf
shorts, fleecy tops and caps, ideally well before the next
Nationals. Niel Ellingson offered to look into costs of clothing.
General:
Brandon Smith and Jessica Lenz proposed that the number of races at
the Nationals be increased to 12 or more. On a vote it was 9 votes
for 12 races and 9 votes for 10 races. On the chairmans deciding
vote the number of races was kept at 10.
A request was made that future Nationals hosts make sure that there
are more than enough moorings.
A suggestion was made to stop conforming with the SAS approved race
officer requirement. After some discussion it was agreed that the
Hunter Class would abide by the SAS requirement. It was also
suggested that perhaps two mark laying boats should be used in the
future although it was pointed out that this should be the Race
Officer’s decision.
Herbie Karolius had lots of good works and encouragement for the
juniors sailing in the fleet and donated a junior trophy to be
awarded at the next Nationals.
The chairman closed the meeting with thanks to all.
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