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2006 North American Tasar Association Annual
General Meeting
CYC, Seattle, October 7th, 2006
2007 Worlds
• Final registration deadline is Apr 31st (AUD$200 more expensive!)
• There is an option for paying AUD$300 by Oct 30th and AUD$550 by Apr 31st.
• As of October 15th, there are 5 boats from North America that I know of that are already registered, and committed to going.
• If the cost is an issue, here are a few things to consider that may help:
o The fleet approved using $2000 of NATA money to help fund the container to ship boats.
o I've found plane tickets for $1500 per person, round trip, after taxes (better than the $2200 quoted at the meeting) and we can probably do better if we get a group discount.
o The entry fee of AUD$800 is only USD$600 or CAD$680.
o The conversion to Thai money is even better.
2007 NATA Schedule
• No definite schedule yet, but I will put together
a tentative schedule soon.
• Regattas people were interested in for 2007 were:
o SOCKS (May ?)
o Vancouver Lake (Jun 2-3)
o Tasar Worlds (Jul 2-11)
o Kitsilano (Jul ?)
o Wenatchee (Date?)
o CGOD (Aug 4-5?)
o Yale Lake (Aug 11-12)
o BC Champs (Sep ?)
o Bellingham Bay One Design (Sep ?)
o Seattle Fleet Champs (Oct ?)
o Turkey Bowl (Nov 17-18)
o Presidents Bush Regatta (Date?/Location?)
• I've started a thread on the new NATA forum for people to comment on which regattas they want to go to, which they don’t, and if there are any suggestions for any regattas not on the list. We also have to pick which regatta will be North Americans, US nationals, and the 4 Can Am regattas. Go here for the discussion:
• In the 2006 season, the regattas with the biggest turnout were BC Champs, CGOD and Wenatchee. At the AGM it was concluded that this was because Vancouver has the largest local active fleet (BC Champs), and people like bush regattas (CGOD and Wenatchee).
New Tasar Supplier
We got a great update from George Yioulos, owner of West Coast Sailing, and the new Tasar parts supplier for the Northwest (assuming the deal goes through, which it sounds like it will). He put a nice post on the NATA Forum with plenty of info, and links to his email and website. Check it out.
Membership Dues
The $5 membership dues for 2006 was a great success in that it more than doubled the number of members. We decided that we would push out luck and try $10 this year. We will see how that goes.
Fleet Building
We had a short discussion on some good ways to build up the local Tasar fleets, and some of the ideas mentioned were buying fleet boats for new sailors to use, holding practices that were not in a traditional fleet racing format, and making things cheaper (this has worked very well at Jericho!). Everyone started getting antsy by the time we got around to this topic, so we didn’t get to far, and besides the solution will probably be a little different for each fleet, so I strongly suggest that everyone uses the NATA forum (how predictable) to discuss among their own fleet what seems like the best idea for them. I am planning on posting a few suggestions for the Seattle fleet very soon.
Happy Sailing,
Kimbal Hall
USA 2278
Posted 2006-10-15