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The RCMSC officers and fleet captains met at the Hall Street Grill in Beaverton at noon on 1/13/16.

Present: Ted Van Syckel (Commodore and DF65 Fleet Capt.), Tren Haselton (Vice Commodore), Stan McKay (Sec/Treas.), and Stanley Townsend (Micro Magic Fleet Captain)

Absent: Gary Pietka (T-37 Fleet Captain)

 

BYLAWS:         

The bylaws posted online need to be updated with changes approved at the last annual meeting to include:

3.4 Two or more sailboats of another fleet may race as a separate fleet.

Membership fees increase:

4.1a $20.00 per year for Adult Membership

4.1b $7.50 per year for Junior Membership

4.1c $25.00 per year for Family Membership

6.4 Terms: RCMSC Officers shall be elected for a term of two years.

There was a discussion to clarify the status of RG65 class boats racing. RG65s may race with DF65s, but would not be scored with them.

Stan proposed that 6.5 be changed to require two weeks’ notice for meetings of officers and fleet captains, instead of one month. This would be on the annual meeting agenda.

 

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Stanley will update the online form with new fees. Our current account balance is $544.77, so no further increases are needed at this time.

 

SAILING SCHEDULE

Stan’s draft was accepted with a few changes. All venues are Tualatin, except 7/24 and 8/14 at Westmoreland. Ted will change several more racing dates to fun sails, and designate dates that will be scored as a series. Stanley will include a brief note explain where to find more information about series competition.

 

RACE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

We agreed that all racing boats should be class legal and carry a sail number. Penalty turns are not always taken promptly after a foul. (This could be a topic at the next annual meeting.) Recording finishes can be improved by designating a fleet member not racing who will start the timer and record the scores. This should be done before any class starts a race.

 

CLUB SEASONAL RACE SERIES

A race series of 5 races or 5 dates would replace a club championship. Ted volunteered to work on the details. DF65, T-37, and possibly MM classes would participate. Perpetual and small keeper trophies would be awarded in each class. A simple scoring procedure is needed.

 

ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting will be held on March 13 at 5:00 pm at the Hayden’s Lakeside Grill in Tualatin following a tune-up sail. The agenda will include election of officers and fleet captains. The new slate will include Commodore and Vice Commodore for two-year terms, and all three fleet captains. Stan will continue serving his second year. Stanley will continue serving as webmaster.

 

OTHER

Stan will investigate club liability insurance, order more racing rule guides, and request a permit from the City of Tualatin.

Stan handed out the current member list.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Stan McKay

RCMSC Secretary/Treasurer

RCMSC ANNOUNCEMENT

Skippers, your Club Officers and Fleet Captains met this past Wednesday to discuss our upcoming sailing season.  Several topics were discussed like a different racing schedule, frostbite series, class series races, racing rules and race day committee duties.  Our Opening Day 2016 fun sail/tune-up and our 2016 Annual Meeting was also discussed.  Specific dates for the above activities will be finalized by the end of next week and you all will be notified.

One activity, the Frostbite Series will begin this Sunday the 17th of January at 1:30 and will consist of four races at Tualatin Commons.  Sorry for the late announcement.  The series dates are 1/17, 1/31, 2/14 and 2/28.  Our Opening Day tune-up Fun Sail is scheduled for Sunday the 13th of March.  We will meet at 1:30 and sail until 4:00 followed by our annual meeting at 5:00 at Hayden’s Lakefront Grill.  Please make sure you set aside the 13th of March for our Annual Meeting.  We need all members in attendance to elect new officers for the coming year.  If anyone is interested in serving your club please give me a call and we can talk about what that would involve.

Our sailing schedule and other announcements should be available the week of January 18, 2016.

I’m sorry for the short notice but things on the home front have a bit busy.  One other note our weather forecast for this Sunday is calling for rain, like we haven’t had enough already, if that holds true I will post an email to all members by 10:30 canceling the event. 

Your Commodore Ted 

Due to the lack of skippers/boats confirming for tomorrow’s scheduled Club Championship Races, the races will be postponed to a date to be determined. Weather permitting, sailing (either fun sailing or racing) will still go on tomorrow (11/15), 1:30 PM, at Tualatin Commons.

Race results have been posted.

‘Twas rather a strange day with PLENTY of wind. Mechanical problems (fried servos and such) plagued. Ted’s DF lost a deck patch and quickly gained a lot of water – ending up on the bottom at 10’ depth. Gary heroically went home for a boat and he and Tren drug the bottom with a treble hook for an hour before snagging the rescue. Race result recording was perhaps a bit (understandably) lax.

The race results from 10/18/15 have now been posted (sorry for the delay – your webmaster has been busy). Turn-out was good and the weather cooperated – except for the wind which “sucked”. T37s and DF65s raced together, though the scoring presented is by class.

Steve Vess’ report + photos posted yesterday on the Portland Model Power Boat Association Facebook page have convinced this skipper to stay home today. To each, his/her own…

We received a post via our FB page (thanks Ron Martin!) indicating that the City of Tualatin is drawing down the pond at The Commons. We’ve tried to determine how this might (or might not) affect our sailing plans tomorrow (10/4/15). Hard to do on a Saturday afternoon! Bottom line (no pun intended), there may or may not be enough water. Unfortunately, reports are that Westmoreland is being drained and may be no better alternative. I plan to show up (with my DF short keel 😉 and hope for the best. Worst case scenario, I’ll have a beer with some of my skipper friends (but I hope to sail). I trust you will make your own judgements.

The results from our 9/6/15 Micro Magic races have been posted to our Race Results page. Congratulations are in order to Stan McKay for his first place finish! Congratulations (of a sort) also go out to Stanley Townsend for picking up the third and final $20 Tammies Hobbies Gift Certificate, generously donated by Steve Vess. Stanley came in second but received the award as Stan McKay decided that, since he had already received the award for the Dragon Force 65 class, one award per skipper was enough.

It was a fun day on the pond. The rain ended shortly before we started and held off throughout. Winds were flukey (so what’s new?) but we had some. Pretty good turnout considering the holiday weekend. Thanks to all involved!

The race results from 8/23/15 have been posted. Pretty good turn out, with 5 T37s and 8 DF65s on the water for a fluky, smoky wind day. The few MMs present did not race. I added some notes about two tie breakers. Also, about DF65 race 3 in which 5 boats crossed the line together to close to call.

Congratulations to Tren H. and Stan M. for picking up the Tammies gift certificates generously donated by Steve V.! The MM prize award awaits another day.

Our 2015 Sailing Schedule has been revised on our website. Take a look.