Star Class Honoring the Past, Leading the Future
Dear Members,
I hope this email finds you well and sailing your beautiful Star!
I am writing today to inform you of the new “Membership Database" that we have been working on. It is becoming more and more interactive daily. Please go to it and play around with it and report back to me your thoughts, suggestions, reports you would like to see and even criticisms—yes even criticisms. We’ve been looking at it so much and it works for us, but it is you, the sailor, who must be happy with the information you receive out of it.
We have built in security levels so that, say, our President has the ability to see all of the members, etc. but the Fleet officer only sees his fleet. District Officers see all of the fleets in his district. Wow, even as I am writing this I am remembering reports I have retrieved for District officers that, at this very moment, they will still have to get from me instead of themselves. In time this will change.
The very first thing you will notice is that if you have not paid your dues to ISCYRA you will not have access to this database. No worries, you can go straight to the Join/Renew and take care of that! Remember that I process the memberships here in the office so it will not be available to you, say on a Sunday, if you have paid because I am probably out sailing my Star and not processing memberships! Someday it may be automatic but right now you still need me to process the payment and update the record. Sorry.
As a Fleet officer you will be able to see everyone that has ever been a member of your fleet (unless they have changed fleets). We leave these people in the database because you just never know when they will return! However if you know otherwise please send that information on to me.
So now go to our webpage, select Contacts, scroll down to and select Membership Database. You will be directed to the new membership portal. Enter your email address for your username and your membership number as your password. If you do not remember your membership number, or never knew it just select Forgot Password.
Once you are in the database you will be at the dashboard. The Gold and Silver entries are first and foremost on the Dashboard, but from here you can navigate to the directory of your fleet, or Fleet reports, certificates or your profile. There is some limited searching at this time—it is still a work in progress.
If you select Search, you can search our database of Measurement Certificates. Yes, we have uploaded them to the Web for your convenience. No more having to ask the Central Office for certificate copies for boats you are interested in buying or for that Point B number when you are fitting a new spar.
In your personal profile you can change your username and password to something that works better for you.
Please do help us make this a better site for our members by sending your suggestion to me.
Thank you.
Barbara Beigel-Vosbury
Executive Director
