ISC Members’ Meeting

4/20/2005 in Room 341, IMU

Read and adopted at the Members’ Meeting of 4/27/2005

The meeting called to order by Commodore Schneider at 7:00. 15 persons attending (including Officers Springsteen, Flowers, Darling, Orzechowski, Schneider, Huntley, Clark, Burzynski, Adkins, and Steinman).

1. Minutes from the Members’ Meeting of 4/13/2005 were read and adopted.

2. Officer’s reports:

A. 40^th Reunion Leader, Jenny:

The first meeting was held last Sunday—good turnout, much enthusiasm. A possible slogan, “Forty years, and still afloat.” Second meeting scheduled for this Sunday at Jim and Robin Torner’s house. A special e-mail account will be established to deal with RSVPs and other communication; much of the information will be transmitted via the Internet.

B. Rear Commodore and Safety Officer, Todd:

The Club has mark permission from the DNR for every weekend this summer.

Boat registration papers have been taken to the County Recorder’s office; despite a few anomalies, our records, theirs, and the actual boats match up in satisfactory manner. The total bill for registering our fleet comes to $843.

Some fisher folks complained last weekend to the DNR that sailboats and regatta activity crowded the fishing pier preventing them from eating their favorite, fresh caught suppers that night. In the future, the Club must either get permission to use the pier, find some other way to transfer crew, or make room for the fisher folk for whose use and pleasure the pier was built.

C. Membership Officer, Heather:

10:30 and 12:30 rides from IMU to the Boathouse this weekend are set; more than 10 Club members have volunteered to help with the Open House, which, although it coincides with RiverFest, has been advertised and should attract a number of new sailors to the ISC.

D. Vice Commodore, Erin:

A new, updated calendar of Club events for the season is now circulating. The latest version will incorporate “Sunday Bloody Races” in its listing of sailing events.

E. Racing Team Co-Captain, Lindsey:

The FUJ regatta sailed this past weekend on the south arm of Lake Macbride. The Iowa Sailing Club’s Racing Team hosted 7 visiting teams who drove in from the Univ. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Wisconsin (Madison), St. Thomas (St. Paul), Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Ohio, the Univ. of Chicago, and Northwestern Univ.

Iowa’s A-team was skippered by Josiah Ball. Lindsey Schneider and Matt Legg crewed. Kark Friedrichsen and Josh Livermore skippered the B-team, crewed by Eric Orzechowski, Shane Duncan, and Dillon Laughlin.

The Iowa team overall won 4^th place in the regatta. Iowa’s A-team placed 2^nd overall.

3. Unfinished business:

Todd asked that Officers send lists to him by e-mail of jobs for which helpful groups of volunteers might be sought.

Lindsey raised again the need to find persons to fill ISC Officer roles during the summer.

4. New business:

A. Exec cabinet keys—Richard has duplicated enough keys to provide each ISC officer who need access with a personal key.

B. Where should the key to the new 9.9 Merc. Outboard (on the pontoon boat) be kept? Perhaps with the shed key, to the left of the sign-out desk.

C. Windsurfers—perhaps a new surge of interest seems to be rising. The simulator (created years ago by Member Mark Gleaves) has been unearthed. Austin Bunn and others may be able to get some windsurf facing going this summer.

D. Boathouse improvements announced by Adkins, Steinman, and Huntley: new sail rack in operation; boat availability board coming soon.

E. Huntley raised the prospect of holding boating and racing seminars for ISC members following the regular meetings each Wednesday evening through the spring semester. Dinghy sailing strategies, 2005-2008 racing rules and tactical problems, racing strategies, and Skipper Rating sessions were listed among possible topics for these after-meeting sessions.

F. Lindsey expressed the gratitude of the Club:

a. To Tom Hart for seeing us through not only the pontoon boat’s new outboard motor, but the tree trimming adventure as well.

b. To Richard Adkins for keeping the fleet, the sails, and the boat registrations up-to-date and ready to go.

c. And to Erin Flowers for the 3 attractive, effective publications: the 2005 Information brochure that explains who and what we are; the 2005 Schedule for Teaching and Rating Programs which should help new members see their ISC future in a progressive series of sailing activities; and the how-to-sail—a-dingy handout used at the Info meeting/Ground school last week.

G. By unanimous vote of ISC members in attendance, the Albatross was awarded this week, in absentia, to a racer from Wisconsin. This sailor fell over the transom, out of his boat, and into the water. He recovered the boat performing the entire act in reverse, a most interesting, if not race-winning, nautical maneuver. Interestingly enough, the wind speed at the time was recorded at 0.0 knots.

There being no further business nor announcement, Commodore Lindsey adjourned the meeting at 7:31.

Respectfully submitted,

John Huntley, secretary