Gulf Yachting Association - Winter Meeting. Sail Expo

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1 Gulf Yachting Association - Winter Meeting Sail Expo

2 One-Design Council s Proposal for the GYA Winter Meeting SAIL EXPO The ODC request that the GYA Winter Meeting take on a new format for The number of attending is decreasing every year and regatta turn outs are at the lowest in recent history. We have to remarket and shape the sport to lure new & existing members down to the clubhouses and on the race courses. Along with the decision making at the committee & council meetings there will be clinics, workshops, guest speakers, contests, Boat Demos, etc... Have local dealers and class representatives display and show off boats. Venders set up displaying the newest & greatest gear. Sailmaker Shoot Out Local sailmakers race an extreme multi boat mini regatta to showcase their new sail designs. The 1 st Annual Laptop Regatta Sailx.com- Fleet, match, and team racing! Have your try at winning the Golden Mouse! Including the Jr. Yacht Club into the weekend is going to bring it up the next level. They will elect their officers, meet to discuss sailing issues, show their skills to new sailors & parents, test run new boats & gear, and much more. Local experts will teach rigging, tuning, preparation, safety, navigation, & racing rules. FREE ON-WATER RACE CLINIC with Video Analysis (Sunday). All ages will be participating! Optimist to J/22 presented by the GYA One Design Council. Bring you boat! US Sailing - Advanced Race Management Seminar (Friday) There are many yacht clubs and facilities located in the gulf coast that have the capabilities to host an event of this caliber. So, let s pull our resources together to rebuild the sport.

3 With many different topics being discussed during the event. From How to get across the Gulf to Regatta Parenting 101, there will be stuff for the entire family. One-Design Class Demos One Design Council Laser Karl Kleinschrodt, Sam Hopkins Finn - Macho Sunfish Edwards Gang J/22 Chris Weinjtes Lighting - Larry Frost Vanguard 15 - Optimist SYC Optimist Racing Team Open Bic Liquid A-Cat & Sprit 750 Bob Hodges (PontYC) Race Management Workshop Topics Race Management Committee Starting Sequence & setting a proper line - How to be an efficient Mark Set & Pin Set boat Safety Boat & Rescuing Techniques Samson Vasquez (GYC) How to be a Principle Race Officer Walter Chamberlin (BWYC) How to be a Regatta Chairman - Regatta Scoring How it s done Getting everything out of you budget IRC The secret formula handicap rating system- SYC Internet and Sailing Schedule Committee Tactics Simulator - Sailx.com Fleet, Match, & Team Racing - Max Albert (PontYC) Online registration Sam Grant Yacht Club Websites: Using the web to increase interest Dave Erwin (NOYC)

4 Rules, Navigation, Tactics & Strategies Offshore & One-Design Councils Team Racing Plays & Strategies John Alden Meade (SYC) Match Racing Benz Faget (NOYC) Racing Rules of Sailing 1 - Dick Rose Racing Rules of Sailing 2 Dick Rose Racing Rules of Sailing 3 Start like a expert Come out clean at every mark Michael Mark (BucYC) PROTEST! The battle in the protest room Kenny Kleinschrodt (BucYC) PHRF - Playing buy the rules Tom Beery (SRYC) Navigation When the batteries die! Victor Vector Communicating with a VHF radio Preparing for a Large Regatta Corky Potts (SYC) Boat Preparation One Design Council How to tune and set up the Flying Scot with your new sails Dave Bolyard (Ullman Sails), Benz Faget (North Sails) Preparing for offshore racing Pulling a boat the right way Chris Wientjes (NOYC) Hull Care - Program Building Youth Committee Keep them in the game year round Team Racing, Big Boats, & Sailx - Sportsmanship Friend for life - Regatta Parenting 101 Work Days interaction without competition -

5 Jr. Yacht Club Activities Youth Committee Elect officials for 2010 Create Committees See you at the Housing Network Sail Expo Rigging and Knot Tying Contests Jr. Lipton s & GYA/USSA Championships Chip shot contest on the beach All-Day All-Boat Free race clinic! Sunday Boat Ownership Hard Work The ODC had a great 2009 winter meeting setting goals and instilling some good ideas that should increase participation. With all positive feed-back from the council and sailors, I feel it is my task to achieve the goal and produce a three day Sail Expo like the GYA has never seen before. It is going to a difficult task but, it is not impossible! The Sail Expo is going to need to be pushed at every club meeting, regatta, party, & on every website in the GYA. Every member of every club will need to be notified to attend and bring a friend. If you would like to get involved in any way please feel free to call of me anytime. The 2010 Expo Planning Committee will host its first meeting at the Mardi Gras Regatta in New Orleans February 28. Join the Efforts Today Thanks, Samson Vasquez GYA One-Design Council Chairman samsonvasquez@gmail.com

6 Preliminary Schedule of Events GYA Winter Meeting / SAIL EXPO Saturday Ballroom Crews Room Skippers Room Boardroom 8:00 Registration Foundation Committee 8:30 Reception & Opening 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 9:00 Capdevielle Jr. Yacht Club - Welcome 9:30 and orientation, Swag 9:30 Off-Shore Council 10:00 Swap, sportsmanship, & 10:00 One Design Council forum 10:30 10:30 11:00 Rules 1 PRO & Regatta Chairman 11:30 Starts Scoring & Websites Trophy Committee Past Commodores Lunch Regatta Room EXPO 8:00 Open Bic 11:00 Finn 11:30 12:00 Upwind Tactics Navigation Vanguard 15 12:00 12:30 Rounding's Schedule Committee Survial & Rescue Lunch Sunfish 12:30 13:00 Downwind Tactics Regatta Parenting 101 Laser 13:00 13:30 Team Racing Gearing up for Big Events IRC Handicapping J/22 13:30 GYA Coordinators & US 14:00 Match Racing Offshore Racing How to get Sponsorships Lightning Sailing Reps 14:00 14:30 Hull Care Traveling with a boat Program Building A-Cat 14:30 15:00 15:00 Sailmaker 15:30 Shoot-Out 15:30 16:00 16:00 16:30 16:30 17:00 17:00 17:30 Cocktail Party Silent Jr. Yacht Club - Officer 17:30 18:00 Auction & Laptop Election 18:00 Regatta 18:30 18:30 19:00 19:30 19:30 20:00 GYA Awards Banquet 20:00 20:30 20:30 21:00 21:00 19:00

7 Preliminary Schedule of Events GYA Winter Meeting / SAIL EXPO Sunday Ballroom Crews Room Skippers Room Boardroom Regatta Room EXPO 9:00 Regatta Parenting 202 9:30 Race Management High School Sailing 9:30 Youth Committee 10:00 Committee Opti Dad Club Managers Meeting 10:00 One-Design 10:30 Laser Mom 10:30 Council - Free 11:00 Racing Clinic 11:00 GYA Club Commodore Fasion Show 11:30 Rules Seminar Meeting 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:30 12:30 13:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:00 14:30 Board of Directors One-Design Council - Free 14:30 15:00 Racing Clinic 15:00 15:30 15:30 16:00 ExCom Meeting 16:00 16:30 16:30 9:00 13:30

8 Join the Efforts Today 2010 Sail EXPO Planning Committee Members Name Yacht club Sub Committees Samson Vasquez Gulfport Chairman Corky Potts Southern Carl Wainwright Fairhope Karl Kleinsdrodt Buccaneer Laser Cathy Cromartie Fairhope Benz Faget New Orleans Match Racing Walter Chamberlin Bay Waveland GYA Advisor Claude Dannerman Bay Waveland Dave Erwin New Orleans Sponsorship, Technology Max Albert Pontchartrain Sailx.com Christy Yoste Gulfport Registration Meredith Price Gulfport Jr. Yacht Club Chris Weinjtes New Orleans J-22, Travel Jim Wade Southern Sponsorship Tom Long Southern Sponsorship Rachel Daugherty Southern Stephen Wagner Pensacola On water activities Bert Rice Pensacola On water activities Peter Gamble Southern John Morrow StAYC / GYC Race Management Hans Albert PontYC Macho Slavich New Orleans Finn Sam Grant FWYC Internet Jennifer Grant FWYC Holly Murray LBYC Jr Yacht Club Kevin Blank TYC Sailx Ken Robinson MYC Laser Karen Reisch SYC / PontYC USSA Bob Paterson StAYC David Bolyard PontYC Shoot-Out, Flying Scot Julie Bolyard PontYC Registration Sam Hopkins Gulfport Outside Activities Ali Bass Gulfport Sponsorship David Reic BSC Outside Activities