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The J/30 Class Southern New England District Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 Thursday, February 16 2012 at the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) at 449 Thames St. in Newport RI. We expect to gather there at 6:30pm.

As in the past, we will be talking about the upcoming racing season, but this year we will be including the possibility of a J/30 District Championship Regatta, as well as starting the earliest planning towards the 2013 J/30 North American Championship Regatta which we will be hosting.

Because we are fortunate to have the class Chief Measurer in our district, and he will be attending, we will go over some of the discussions concerning equipment that you may have seen on the website. We can also address any technical questions you may have about the boat. So bring your questions and answers.

If you are not impressed with the meeting topics, the venue itself is worth the trip as you will be able to see inside one of the few real operating wooden boat-building schools in the world. Bill and I had the opportunity to visit it recently and it's an amazing facility. Just the smell of the wood is intoxicating. You'll see all the Beetle Cats being built by the students, and maybe we will be able to go to the back shed to see the progress of the complete rebuild of the classic 1885 schooner Coronet, which is just getting started. Check it out at www.IYRS.org.



The IYRS is not charging us anything for hosting the meeting, but it would be nice to provide a small contribution to them for facilitating the meeting, and for the good work they do there. You'll be amazed.

So please reserve the date on your calendar now and feel free to ask a couple of your core crew to join you. We will follow up with an agenda and request for head count in a few weeks.

Wishing you safe and happy holidays,
Mark Rotsky

This is a quick note to let everyone know that the J/30 SNE district annual meeting has been changed to Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 6:30pm. The meeting will be held at the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) 449 Thames St. in Newport RI.

Other information is provided in the forum post by Mark Rotsky.

For those that did not receive the Evite for the annual SNE meeting on 15 Feb 2012 @ IYRS in Newport, please see this link:

http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/PDLIJWLWCJPVBNWCJHGZ/2012J30SNE

Great turnout and meeting last night at IYRS. The presentation is posted below. We'll publish the minutes as soon as they're available.

Minutes are posted below
J/30 Southern New England District Annual Meeting February 14, 2012  

Attendees:

• No Quarter Given #46 - Mark Thornhill, Shawn Magee
• Evelyn #179 - Luke Buxton- Northern New England District Governor
• Good News #175 John Howell - District Treasurer, John Cavanagh, David Greenhalgh
• Falcon #229 - Charlie Stoddard - Class Measurer, Bob DeHart
• Rhapsody #348 Bill Kneller -Class Co President, Mike Strickland
• Mmmmm #352 - Bob Rude
• Magan #389 Chris Buydos, Jim Buydos
• Breezin #409 - Bruce Underhill
• Nemesis #435 - Mark Rotsky - District Governor , Kathy Rotsky-District Secretary
• Azimuth #473 - Richard Murphy, Maryanne Palleilko
• Arbella #465 - Bill Saltonstall, Tinker Saltonstall

 

A tour of the International Yacht Racing School was provided. Pizza and beer was provided for the group to socialize.  

Welcome and Introductions - Mark Rotsky starts the meeting with around the room introductions.  

Class Membership - Bill Kneller

Indicated J/30 Class is one of the most active J/Boat one design classes in the country

Benefits of becoming a member_Discounts, Flags, exchanging ideas with members, enjoying comradely within the class, discounts @ J30.org.

Board of Governor's Report - Bill Kneller

Class financially solvent

Provide half hulls for championship

Blessed with sponsorship

Pushing for advertising

Class participation is growing

Dates for J/30 North American Championship on web through 2014

Class Measurers Report - Charlie Stoddard

Class voted to keep Dacron Mainsail

Treasurer's Report - Bill Kneller for John Howell

• $1,109.90 - Starting Balance Jan 1, 2011
• $ 100.00 - Expenses:

$100.00 - 2011 NBYA Dues paid 9/15/11

2011 meeting refreshments covered by petty cash_..

• $1,009.90 - Ending Balance 31 Dec 2011

One Design & PHRF Opportunities - Charlie Stoddard

Reviewed tentative race schedule - that will be posted on forum

Discussed Regional event with dates. Looks like 28-29 July may be best.

North American Championship - Bill Kneller

Reviewed 2011 J/30 NAs in Annapolis

Reviewed 2013 J/30 NA Proposal & Selection process

Discussed 2012 J/30 NAs upcoming in New Orleans 18-21 Oct

SNE District selected Barrington YC to host 2013 NAs 25-28 July

Charlie Stoddard to be organizing chairman

Ron Hopkins Race Committee chairman

Volunteers to help organize 2013 NAs

Maggie to help Charlie

Registration-Kathy

Bob Rude, Deb Rude, Bob Dehart, John Cavanagh, Maryanne Palleilko, Shawn Magee

Need help looking for sponsorship

Elections - Mark Rotsky

Slate for elections - nominated by Bill Saltonstall and accepted

- SNE District Governor - Mark Rotsky (Nemesis #435)

- Secretary - Kathy Rotsky (Nemesis #435)

- Treasurer - John Howell (Good News #175)

- Fleet Measurer - Charlie Stoddard (Falcon #229)

Technical / Problem Solving Discussion - Mark Rotsky

Held general Q&A on boat projects by owners. Falcon will look like a new factory showroom J/30 after the deck restoration project this winter.

Raffle - Kathy Rotsky

Two J/30 Small flags donated by Bill Kneller were raffled off_. Bob Dehart and Shawn Magee won them