Rose City Model Sailing Club Annual Meeting Minutes, January 17, 2026
Location: Round Table Pizza, 16444 Boones Ferry Road, Lake Oswego 97035
Attending: Chris Nelson, Dave Anderson, Dick Asmus, Gary Pietka, Jim Hansen, Ken Brown, Mike Skeen, Peter van der Meulen, Sherrell Steinhauer, Stan McKay, Terry Goodell, Tracy Martin
Commodore Gary Pietka called the meeting to order at 11:42 am.
Commodore’s Report:
Gary thanked Vice Commodore Sherrell Steinhauer for setting courses and managing races for the regular 2025 season. He also thanked Stan McKay, who has resigned, for serving as Secretary/Treasurer for ten years. Knute Forsman has agreed to take over for Stan, so Gary asked for a vote to confirm Knute as Sec./Treas. The vote was unanimously in favor. The DF65 Fleet Captain position is also open. Gary said he will address this issue later. Terry Goodell agreed to continue as Scorer. Thank you, Terry. Next, Gary nominated Peter Van der Meulen for Commodore. The vote was unanimously in favor.
Vice-Commodore’s Report:
Sherrell explained how the four movable buoys can be controlled by a phone app that any member could download.
Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
Stan McKay handed out copies of his report for 2025. (A copy is attached.) Stan requested a revision to the Membership Application form posted on our website. The “Signature/Date” space should have a separate date space. New members are not providing a date following their signature. Knute Forsman has sent members a schedule of 2026 club events.
Fleet Captains’ Reports
Gary covered the T-37 and DF65 classes. Our members can check the Seattle club (search seattlemodelyacht) for boats for sale. Gary has several partially built kits and a variety of parts for both classes that belonged to Roger May. Gary will sell these items to benefit Roger. The club needs a DF95 for interested parties to try out. The boat would be available to members in case of a breakdown.
Webmaster’s Report
Web Report: RCMSC – Rose City Model Sailing Club
- Views: 2025 16.4K views (up 21%), 3.9K visitors.
- I’ll add regional, national and travelling T37, DF65 & DF95 events to our calendar as details become available. Dan Shier Region 6 AMYA is eager to get RCMSC members involved in more events.
- Let me know if anything need fixing.
- For Sale: Classifieds – A significant number of boats sold last year. Right Now, 2 DF65s at good prices are available for example.
- Boaties (Selfies of boats) Boaties – RCMSC I would like a picture of every boat in the club up on the web page –
send me one and I’ll post it (this is optional and just for fun)
Facebook: Stats Last 28 day 296 view (53% followers, 47% non-followers). 2025 (3089 views 55/45 breakdown) most in April.
We have removed old admins. I am only making minimal efforts here. If someone is interested in administering and putting more info there let me know.
T37 builds: Need to keep getting new boats into the fleet. I think we can help someone if interested. Also used boats do show up too.
3d printing: Checking if any interest in a 3d print sub-group in the club? Not looking for new class more about info sharing.
Open Topics
• Some of us have small quantities of club business cards left. Mike Skeen has a design to use when we are ready to reorder.• There were suggestions that paying dues by PayPal or Venmo should be set up. The club would have to pay the fee. No action was taken.
• Mike Skeen reported that a committee headed by Tualatin’s mayor had been formed to consider changes to the park area and the pond that we use for our winter sailing events. Some versions would eliminate the pond. Mike suggested finding the opposition and offering our support. Ken, also a member of the Portland Model
Powerboat Association, said their members are up at arms about some of the proposed changes. Mike, Tracy, and Ken are Tualatin residents. They will monitor the situation and keep us informed.
• Tracy suggested making our website more instructive for internet browsers. Examples would be helpful to Peter.
Trophy Presentations: Gary presented trophies to the following members:
DF65: Dave Anderson 1st, Sherrell Steinhauer 2nd, Stan McKay 3rd
DF95: Dave Anderson 1st, Mike Skeen 2nd, Sherrell Steinhauer 3rd
T-37: Peter van der Meulen 1st, Terry Goodell 2nd, Gary Pietka 3rd
Summer Series Final Standings scored by Terry are attached.
Refreshments and Adjournment
The meeting was paused for a pizza and cold drinks.
Following the break Dick Asmus moved for adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 1:30
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