International Mirror Class Association of Tasmania.

MINUTES OF IMCAT MEETING

 

HELD ON 03/08/04 AT 6 Carinya St, Blackmans Bay

Present : J.Graney, A. Roberts, G. Atherton, M. Barrington

Apologies: J. Behrens, J. Sherriff.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

gBusiness Arising:fghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Action:

Payment for website software and anti spam/anti virus program to be made to the Pullens	JB
Midwinter Madness at Cygnet was a great event, thanks to Greg Pullen and his team. (See correspondence)
Photographic Competition on website. Jenny to email Andrew Joyce’s photo to Andrew Roberts for preliminary poster to circulate round clubs etc	AR JG
Grant has received no reply to email re permission to use article or mistakes from Australian Sailing	GA
State Championships Deviot – letter sent	JG
Class Promotion. DSS to be asked re 30 th January 2005. Jenny to contact David Short and Scott Price re suitability and addition to Dinghy group program. (Details General Business)	JG
Rudder for making the board for the club holding the MacIntyre Cup (Perpetual) seems to have gone missing. Daniel to be asked to put a request on the website.	JG
Promotional activity at Wooden Boat Festival to be on the morning of Saturday 12 th Feb if possible, prior to racing at RHH. Jenny to contact Greg Pullen re this	JG GP
Scouts are keen to have us at a meeting with a boat followed up with some sailing. Date to be confirmed. Meeting to be at Quentins.	QH
Toll photo presentation to be followed up by Grant.	GA
Quentin to follow up family from Canberra.	QH
MacIntyre Cup date changed to 27/28 Nov as boats going to WA will need to to packed up by 6 th December. OK with Montrose. Jenny to circulate date to members. Jenny has checked with club reps and school exam dates.	JG

Correspondence

Letter from Port Cygnet Sailing Club re making the Midwinter Madness an annual event. Meeting agreed. A summer sailing date for going to PCSC was reluctantly declined as the program is too full at present. An alternative for a date during the Tuesday evening Twight Series was also declined as the drivers would be at work in most cases. Perhaps individual members may like to join in. Members to be circulated.

Jenny to reply, and to thank PCSC for their hard work (especially Greg).

Letter sent to Deviot confirming State Titles March 19th,20th 2005

Finances

As John Behrens was absent, there was no financial report.

Boats for Sale

Limelight: Boat and triple trailer $2,500 – Truskett family

White Lightning- John Penman

Star Bellied Sneetch – Neil Shepherd

Rear View-Michael Wilkinson

Bucket: Richard McMinn approx $800

Gem: Attrill family. - $2500

General Business

e-meetings

Daniel and Greg Pullen had set up a site with Yahoo for committee members to be able to participate in meetings on line.

Jenny tried to send paraphrased bits of the meeting to the Pullens without success. It was also difficult as the flow of the meeting had to be disrupted for her to go down to the computer etc. (A computer-literate person with more accessable computer might have made it a bit easier!!)

Those members present were not in favour of the idea. Input from other members of the commitee are invited on this.

RYCT Winter Race days August 15 th.

Getting Sabot Sailors to helm a Mirror.

It was decided that if 30 th January was a suitable day for the DSS/RYCT Dinghy group, the top 12 Sabot Sailors in Tasmania would be personally invited to helm a Mirror for a challenge race in the morning at DSS. IMCAT would provide a cash prize. Jenny to contact the relevent people re the date and have it put in their printed program.

For this to work, we need good Mirrors to be available for them to sail.

The Tasmanian Sabot Team for the Nationals will be annouced at the end of October, so we will know these 12 Sabot helms in plenty of time.

Imcat will provide a cash prize for any club running Mirror promotional events.

Mirror Polo Top.

Jenny asked if we should look at a Mirror top similar to what KBSC had done in the Sabots and Lasers.

Further discussion and ideas need to be gathered re this.

Should we have a National top, perhaps in different colour for different States?

The logo would need to be simple eg the Mirror “M”. Different venues could add their design on the back for Nationals. Other ideas????

Training

What training can and should we be offering? On a club basis, mentoring needs to play a big part. Each experienced Mirror sailor in a Club needs to take some responsibility for this, and perhaps share this week to week on a needs basis.

Training excercises could be publicised eg on YA website for the benefit of those helping others as well as for individuals looking to improve their performance. Jenny to contact YA re this.

We need to grab opportunities as they arise to get help from knowledgeable sailors in the state. David G. noted that Victor K would be making several trips to Tas to train Nick Behrens and helm (Qld) for Olympics after Athens and there might be some opportunities for knowledge sharing there, as well as getting eg Nick Behrens for some tips. Any training activities need to be well supported and organised.

Where we have reciprocal pennant races with KBSC and Montrose, training could be run in the morning. It is hoped that other clubs run with this idea in the North of the state.

Some sort of training will take place at the MacIntyre Cup. Thoughts, ideas?

Meeting closed at 10pm

Next meeting Monday 6 th September 7.30pm, at 6 Carinya St.

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