LGCYC Board Meeting

June 2, 2001

Attendance: Herm Lintner, Bob Rippel, Charles Thorne, Spencer Raggio, Maryellen Rudolph, Deb Katz, Dave Dougall, Kim Andrews, Rebecca Stanley, Ron Burns, Kim Andrews

Review Minutes of May meeting. Minutes accepted as presented.

Finances
Treasury Report presented by Kim Andrews. Started month at $1640, ended month with $1820.

Social Committee
Deb Katz reported on the season-opening party at the Downtown Emporium in Glens Falls. Discussed plans for the Ti Race weekend. BBQ at Yankee’s Corinthian Corner on Friday evening for registration and Sunday at 2pm for awards ceremony. Following the Sunday races we will meet at the Boathouse at 5pm. All members are invited, whether they raced that day or not. We discussed the idea that Boathouse is not accessible. Will check to see if we could use the lower decks that may be accessible if arriving by boat.

Membership
All members of the executive committee were encouraged to register as members. Herm will send out welcome letters to new members. He will draft a message for the newsletter encouraging membership. Kevin was hoping to get the Bulletin board up by Friday night and have it set for the Ti Race weekend. Discussed need for organizing the area prior to the weekend. Group will meet after the Wed night race.

Many brochures have been distributed. Many were mailed. Several will be available at Registration for the Ti Race.

Race Committee
Report by Bob Rippel. Race clinic was held on Saturday, June 9. We are encouraging people to be aware of the committee boat assignments. They are posted on the LGCYC web site.

Ti Race
Report by Chuck Thorne. Working very hard on all areas, publicity, fundraising and race plans. Report on the WAMC 90.3 show on June 7 starring Chuck Thorne and Rebecca Stanley at 11:05 am; topics are Ti Race, Y-Knot and Corinthians. Volunteers are needed for the weekend. Food will be served at 7pm. Volunteers needed at 8:30 Saturday. Discussion held regarding the handicapping procedures. Spencer has it on a PC program. Discussed sailing instructions. We will race the course that is published in the brochure. Still need a chase boat. Reviewed the criteria for the trophy winners. After the short race on Saturday, we will serve chips and beverages.

Newsletter
Report given by Herm. Bill is hoping to get the newsletter out shortly after the Ti Race and publish the winners.

Y-Knot
Race clinic received excellent feedback. Next clinic is July 14.

Cruising events & promotion
Rich Hegney to organize and will encourage all boats to join and sail.

Tanzer 22 North Americans
No report.

Next meeting July 10.

Submitted by,
Maryellen Rudolph, Secretary