[Sonar] Minutes from our Sonar fleet meeting, Sept 8, 2021

[Eric]

Also - a reminder for all boats to pay their $25 (or $75 if you’re feeling the love) Sonar Association Fee. 
This supports national efforts to support the greater fleet, and both Hans and JR have been working with the national association. 

> On Sep 9, 2021, at 7:14 AM, Thomas Brown via Sonar <sonar at lists.wyc.org> wrote:
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> All:
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> Thanks to those who were able to attend in person or in Zoom.   Hopefully the Zoom didn't turn out too badly.   Feedback?   If it worked well,   we'll do the hybrid thing again.
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> Here are the main tasks/decisions we made:
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> -   Regarding spare parts,  in particular masts, we decided to have a subcommittee (Marty, JR and myself at this point) to do an inventory of our masts needing to be repaired and repair at least two of them at this time.    We have the funds within the fleet to do this presently.   This will be an 'over winter' project.
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> - In terms of having new parts inventory (masts and rails) here in MN,  we decided that this could be a separate effort between owners.       Personally,  I'm going to see what the outcome of our mast repair effort this winter and go from there. 
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> - We will be investigating the possibility of a 'road regatta' such as Okoboji, Sheboygan or Galveston for 2022.   Fleet members with contacts there were apportioned out for the research phase.
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> - In terms of fleet promotion/recruitment,  we had a discussion about using our existing Facebook page more effectively as well as a Nextdoor effort next spring.     We decided that our existing Friday social events would remain on the schedule, but that the purpose would change from team racing to more social engagement and recruitment activities that may involve sailing in the bay.   TBD later.
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> - No dues in 2020 or 2021 since we didn't spend any $$ for the B dock party and really had no other expenses.   A few members paid in 2020 and we have a record of them and that will count for 2022.   We will go back to the dues (amount TBD) next year, 2022.     Our account balance is around 5K.
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> -  Sonar class events will be the Midwest Championships next year (2022) when our visiting boats from Canada can come back.  2023 is slated for the N/As.
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> - Marty, Bernt and Gary will be representing us at the Mallory Cup in Galveston in October.  Good luck guys!
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> I'm sure I missed some items but hopefully caught the gist of the meeting.
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> Thomas Brown
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