<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>All:</div><div><br></div><div>We have a fun season in 2020, especially in light of the North American championships coming to WYC!</div><div><br></div><div>We met as a quorum on December 19 and here are the essential minutes as I wrote them:</div><div><br></div><div>Eric Simso agreed to take the position of fleet treasurer. Thanks Eric!</div><div><br></div><div>We have approximately 7K in the fleet account. The exact amount will be reviewed at our next meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Warren and Paula Weck have agreed to manage the B series dock party. Thanks again Warren and Paula! (this was ex parte before the meeting)</div><div><br></div><div>We had 6 people raise their hands for potential participation in the Galveston team racing regatta in Kemah TX on April 18-19. We nominally need 9 and a max of 12. Marty Fossen has agreed to be the liaison between Kemah and SF5 so we will hear more from him in the near future on this.</div><div><br></div><div>The Sonar fleet dues for 2020 will remain at $40 with the rules regarding it also not changing.</div><div><br></div><div>We decided not do do any Sunday rumbles in 2020</div><div><br></div><div>We will have a winter party (white elephant format) on either January 18 or 25) host is to be determined. I will have a follow up email about that.</div><div><br></div><div>JR confirmed that we will continue (as the official schedule will indicate) with the Friday night team racing socials. Thank you JR!</div><div><br></div><div>There are two no-boat team racing seminars at Wayzata Sailing that Sonar skippers and crews are encouraged to attend: February 25 and March 10.</div><div><br></div><div>We decided to plan an alternative format for the Lonar that some boats may want to the participate in: the 'Donar' as in doublehanded. I will be working with WYC and a few of the Sonar fleet members that wanted this to get this into the 2020 schedule but the basic intent is it to be on the Saturday series.</div><div><br></div><div>JR is working to get a Sonar sailmaker clinic here as part of the run up to the North Americans but also for all Sonar skippers and crews overall. It was voted that the fleet would pay for the travel expenses of the seminar giver (expected to be from the east coast). The consensus of the group was that the format of the Steve Shepstone seminar in 2006 was what was sought with both on the water, on shore and rigging/tuning demonstrations to be included. JR will have more on dates etc. in the near future.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Chris Fittipaldi's interest that we promote crew recruitment, it was also agreed that we do some some other seminar within the fleet where we do not bring in an outside expert. I will be taking that on. I will likely be a rules refresher or a panel type discussion on a Friday night along with pizza and libation. More on that in the next few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>We made a decision to have fleet level decisions (special rules etc.) to continue to be made via email but that it be done with a list of boat owners and partners only, one vote per boat, and that there be a initial email date/time along with a discussion period and expiration time. These details were not completely settled but will be soon.</div><div><br></div><div>It was voted that we purchase two flag (feather) type banners for fleet brand promotion during Sonar events (e.g. Friday night team events, seminars, lent to the North American championship events etc.) an example:</div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.flagsonthecheap.com/all-feather-flags">https://www.flagsonthecheap.com/all-feather-flags</a> <div><br></div><div>I'm sure I'm missing things here, and there were certainly other discussions with no decisions made, but these were the essentials. I will work with Hans on getting this onto a Google drive and using the sonar fleet 5 gmail account for all of this communication going forward.</div><div><br></div><div>Have a great holiday season and see you at the white elephant party!</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Thomas Brown</div>
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