Agenda
Officer Reports
John Bongiovanni's "Retirement" celebration
Minutes
Commodore: Shreyas Chand
[TBD]
Vice Commodore (Open Houses): Isha Mishra, Dennis Tai
[TBD]
First Vice Commodore (Dinghies): Robert Spark, Memo Gunay
- New jibs, mains, asymm. spinnakers, and sail covers are coming soon.
- We're in process of aquiring a 5th c420 for the fleet. Please contact first-vice for any leads on used c420s.
- Shout out to James Codega for taking lead on readying the c420 fleet!
- Special shout out to Ty, Zay, Ed, Neil, and many other volunteers who have helped run or participated in our recent dinghy repair clinics!
- If folks are interested in organizing future repair clinics, please contact first-vice.
- Please remember to log issues as you find them using the tablet before you leave the club. This will help them get fixed sooner.
Second Vice Commodore (Windsurfing): Sofien Sehiri, Ted DeBonis
- Windsurfing equipment in good standing. New mast, extensions and universals just arrived. Waiting on novice sails with eta late November.
- Two new seniors: Fabian Valli and Mackenzie Hridel. Both are exceptional individuals with great volunteering track record, motivation and leadership!
Third Vice Commodore (Keelboats): Ryan Alder
- J/80 is back with new bottom job and standing rigging. Still DNS'd for now as gudgeon work and rig tune are finishing up.
- To J/80 skippers: while it's still down, the winches are due for a servicing if someone is comfortable tackling that. There being only 2, it's usually a quick job.
- Doctor Who going in for a bottom job next. Will be hitting up keelboat seniors to assist in delivery and pickup. Hoping to utilize Berkeley Marine Center for this one, so it'll be an easy trip.
- A couple members are looking into replacing the life lines on Doctor Who with dyneema (thanks Greg and Matteson). We may be hitting up members for a couple more to help.
Rear Commodore (Teaching): Stephanie Evans (sailing)
[TBD]
Rear Commodore (Teaching): Randi Shapiro/David Gadarian (windsurfing)
Congratulations to our 157 new Novices, 17 Juniors, 2 J+ and 2 Seniors minted since our last GMM!
We've taught 59 classes this quarter, which includes another WIPA Level 1 certification course focused on instructing beginning windsurfing, as well a four new-to-CSC windsurfing "fast-tracks," one, which focused on moving Novice windsurfers toward the Junior rating, and three focused on Junior and a couple early J+ members focused on on-the-water coaching for key intermediate windsurfing skills like water start, planing, and the like. Thanks to Eric L for prototyping that and to Sophia H and Jean S for organizing subsequent fast-tracks, and for everyone who helped with the intensive on-the-water coaching! Sofy S is also running a multi-week freestyle clinic that is in progress.
Overall, our year-to-date Novice numbers are looking slightly higher than last year and are about 10% lower than our five-year average, which include banner years for Novice 1 enrollment back in 2023 and 2024, but we're at the point in the season where interest is shifting from the beginner class to advanced beginner skills and I will be adjusting our September class focus accordingly with more Novice 2 and 3 classes to move folks toward the Junior rating.
As always, thanks to our marvelous volunteer instructors who show up week after week to share their passion for the sport.
Port Captains: Audrey Yen, Birk Huber
All is well as far as day leader coverage goes, we are finalizing the fall schedule but do not anticipate issues. The west crane remains down and will for some time.Please be kind to the day leaders and please do not 'donate' things to the club by just dropping them off around the premises.
Treasurer: Scott Snow, Peter Kuhn
Thanks to all the volunteers who teach, cook, clean, repair and keep Cal Sailing running!
Secretaries: Sara Zimmerman, Marco Falcioni
Volunteer opportunity (potential senior project) to collate the member survey recently concluded and provide an executive summary and a report for the next GMM. Please contact secretary@cal-sailing.org