Minutes of the 2005 ISCYRA District 2 Annual Meeting

15 January 2005

Miles River Yacht Club - St. Michaels, Maryland

The meeting was called to order at 1515 EDT by District Secretary, Barbara Vosbury.

Reading of the minutes from 2004 are dispensed with due to technical problems.

District Report – Barbara Vosbury

District officers remain as per the previous year:

Secretary - Barbara Vosbury

Asst. Secretary - Bert Collins

2004 District Champion - John MacCausland (for the 14^th time!)

2004 Green Star - Gunti Weissenberger

CBYRA Champion – Aaron Serenis

Travelin’ Trophy - Chuck Wiley with 10 in-District events

Honorable mention for the Travelin’ Trophy goes to;

Sam Hopkins and Kris Wilson, each with 9 events

Karen Alt with 8 events.

Fleet reports

Annapolis Fleet - Elliot Oldak

Elliott Oldak remains as Fleet captain with Bert Collins as Fleet Secretary. The AN fleet remains stable at 16 boats, (1 lost and 1 gained this year), and about 29 members. The newest addition to the AN fleet is Henry Filter, longtime top competitor in the Snipe fleet. The 2004 AN Fleet Champion is Bert Collins/Guy Avellon. There are a good number of the AN fleet currently participating in the Florida winter regattas.

Chesapeake Bay - Tom Price

The CB fleet gained new member and boat owner, Murray Leigh, last year. Murray is quickly becoming a regular competitor around the District, and we expect to see much more of him in 2005. The CB fleet expressed interest in hosting the District championships in ’06 or ’07.

Cooper River - John MacCausland

The CR fleet maintains status quo in 2004 - no appreciable changes.

Eastern Shore – Bob Flower

The ES fleet is hanging in as they try to rebuild after several years of dormancy. Currently holding at 3-4 boats, with some discussion on how to build interest and increase membership, possibly from the Junior fleet at TAYC.

Mid-Eastern Shore Fleet - Karen Alt

Karen reports that the MES fleet is still growing. Last year they lost 1 fleet member and 1 boat, but gained several new active and associate members, along with several boats.

Currently there are approximately 20 boats and around 30 members in the MES fleet.

North Chesapeake Bay - Larry Parotta

The NCB fleet has remained fairly steady with 9 boats, 10 active members, and 4 associate members. Larry reports that much of their 2004 local season was “washed out” due to the extremely high water flow being released from the dam(s) upstream on the Susquehanna River. This caused river conditions which were unsuitable for sailing for much of the latter part of the summer. There are a couple of NCB fleet members currently in Florida competing in the winter series of events at Coral Reef YC.

2005 Sailing Schedule

District Championship - There have been ongoing discussions with the NCB fleet, they have expressed interest in hosting the 2005 D2 Championships. However Larry expressed concerns with hosting the event much later than May/early June as he feels there may be ongoing issues with the river levels.

TAYC (home for the ES fleet) has also indicated that they would like to host this event and suggested the weekend of Jul 23/24. As this is a weekend with no other Star class conflicts it is determined that we should move forward with having TAYC host this event for 2005.

Other events – The preliminary 2005 schedule for D1, D2, and D12, is distributed and discussed.

The first conversation centers around the Sailing World NOOD events in Annapolis and in Marblehead. It has been discussed that the Star class would like to support the Marblehead event in odd numbered years, and the Annapolis event in even numbered years. With that in mind it is strongly suggested that D2 members interested in traveling make the Marblehead NOOD a planned event on their schedule for 2005.

Next up for discussion is the Tri-District Championship. D12 will use the Sunapee Open, 30-31 July, as their event for this trophy, in D1 this year the event will be the Bedford Pitcher on 10-11 September. After some discussion it is decided that the MES fleet will look into moving the Shuster Memorial to Oct 22-23 and we will make this the D2, and final, leg of the 2005 Tri District Championship.

New Business

Ø Tom Price mentions CBYRA Race Week, and the interest in having One Design classes participating on their own courses. It is determined that the Star class will not be actively supporting this.

Ø Barbara Vosbury and John MacCausland discuss the various resolutions which will be voted on at the Annual Meeting during the Worlds in Argentina.

Ø Barbara Vosbury will be attending the meeting(s) in Argentina and is available for any D2 fleets that require a proxy vote on the resolutions.

Ø Bert Collins led a discussion on the MOCR and the gender eligibility issues in the NOR for this event, including the “trickle down” effects of ISAF designating the Star as the equipment for the Men’s Keelboat in the Olympics. This is an ongoing issue, there are several members of District 2 actively working with the Class, and US Sailing to try to prevent gender discrimination in sailing and specifically in the Star Class. Anyone interested in further details or in participating should contact Barbara Vosbury or Bert Collins.

Ø 2006 Western Hemisphere Championships - This event will be held on the Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis YC from May 23 through May 26 2006, the preceding weekend will be the Lippincott Memorial regatta, which shall be the “warm-up” event for the Silver Star Championship.

Ø The NBC fleet is nominated as the host(s) for the 2006 District 2 Annual meeting and dinner.

Ø Barbara Vosbury mentioned that the Penguin Class was looking into a pot luck dinner event after Saturday of the MRYC Annual Regatta. They would like to include the Star Fleet also. Tentative plans are for the dinner to take place at the Maritime Museum.

At 1745, a motioned is made to adjourn the meeting, and the participants retired to the bar at MRYC for refreshments.