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1.
Slate of Officers:
We elected new officers for the Multihull Council.
Chairman Dan Mangus
Vice Chairman John Williams
Secretary Deborah Schaefer
Area A David White
Area C Mark Santorelli
Area E Eric Kennedy
Area F John Tomko
Area J Scott Miller
Mike Grandfield accepted our invitation to
be an active member of the Multihull Council.
2. US SAILING Multihull
Championship for the Hobie Alter Cup:
The 2005 Hobie Alter Cup event will be
held April 13-17, 2005, at the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, Long Beach, CA, on
Hobie Tigers.
Action Item: Annual Request for $5,000 for the Hoyt-Jolley
Restricted Fund to support the Hobie Alter Cup event.
The 2006 US SAILING Multihull Championship will be hosted by Pensacola Beach
Yacht Club, Pensacola,
FL, on Nacra F-18s.
The Council agreed to form an ad hoc committee chaired by John Williams to
review the language of the Championship Conditions with an eye toward
establishing the youth champion’s berth as a permanent invitational slot in
the adult Championship. This language will be discussed at the Spring 2005
meeting and any recommended changes will be subject to a vote of the
Council.
To gain greater consistency from area to area, John Williams will be
updating the guidelines and requirements for the Area Reps on how to conduct
Area Qualifiers.
Our two Multihull Championships alone were responsible for reaching out to
360 multihull sailors with the aim of bringing them into the fold as US
SAILING Members.
The Multihull Council created a new award for the US SAILING Multihull
Championship named the William H. Jolley Sportsmanship Trophy.
3. US SAILING Youth Multihull
Championship: We have a new
Deed of Gift for the Arthur J. Stevens Trophy to be awarded to the winners
of this event.
We now have the W. Darline Hobock Sportsmanship Trophy for the US SAILING
Youth Multihull Championship.
The Multihull Committee has developed a new Youth Multihull Restricted Fund.
We have accepted a proposal for the 2005 US SAILING Youth Multihull
Championship to be held in conjunction with the Hobie 16 North American
Championships at Pierport Yacht Club, Ventura,
CA, on July 20, 21 and 22, 2005.
4. Silver Medalists:
Congratulations to our Multihull Representatives, John Lovell and Charlie
Ogletree, for winning the Silver Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, Greece.
5. Fast and Fun: Fast and
Fun is still alive and well at Sail Sand Point in Seattle, Washington. It’s
an outstanding success story about introducing youths into the sport of
sailing. It’s just one of many stories about how the Fast and Fun Program
helped bring youths into the sport. Contact the Multihull Council if you
want to start a program of your own.
Dan Mangus
Chairman |
