Great to see everyone last night at the Fleet party!. For those who weren't
there, or those who had too much to drink and can't remember what happened,
here's a recap.
Big thanks to Al, Claire, and all the rest of the 2014 fleet leadership
team!
Cheers,
Adam
*AWARDS*
For those folks that won awards, but who weren't there to claim them come
to the dock out day at TI (date TBD via email) to claim your award (a nice
engraved glass).
*PARTICIPATION AWARDS*
Best crew: Maddy, able to handle all kinds of crazy situations
Most improved: Ryan & Jamie, out there all the time
Best sportsperson: Dan
Most wacky: Jeff Knowles, one of our Tuesday Night sailors, for kite
surfing a V15
Best at helping other boats in distress: lots of contenders for this one,
which is a testament to our fleet’s team spirit. But in the end, the winner
is Dan & Claire, who helped sail in several boats. Dan even sailed in one
guy’s boat when he was too tired to sail in on his own.
Best social chair: Lots of contenders for this one, but we’ll give the nod
to DB & Kara. Kind of pros at the cooking thing, but they still made a
wicked good Thai dinner.
*THURSDAY NIGHT RESULTS*
22 nights of racing, 132 races overall, and over 50 different teams.
Most races in a night: 8 races on two different nights in June and July
1st: Maddy & Al, with help from Rachel, Michelle, Sammy, Claire Dennis,
and others.
2nd: the efficiency team, making just 13 nights but still doing well,
Matthew, Avery &
Nicholas. Honorable mention to Nicholas as the youngest sailor to be at the
top of the fleet.
3rd: Displaying incredible tenacity all the way to the end, Dan and
Claire. With assistance from Rolf, Neha, Peter, Jono and Claire Dennis.
4th: always a tough team with lots of experience: Ken & his teammates
Shannon, Steph, Sammy and Rebecca
5th: displaying some incredible jets, the co-skipper team of Pete and
Courtney. Also Jeremy, Michele and Christina helped out.
To see the Thursday night final top 8 results see this Google spreadsheet
(the results on the webpage are not accurate):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap-ubTdb22F3dE1WeTVHaTJrOUJvaXFwa2g1X0lHX1E&usp=sharing
*NEXT YEAR (2015) PLANS*
*2015 CHAIRS*
Fleet captain: Al
Thu Nights: Maddy & Adam F
Tue Nights: Dan & Steve
Volunteer: Sally
Webmasters: Rolf & Lyzz
Outreach: Lyzz -- things like working with local press, social media
Charter: Pete -- would be great if someone could help him
Treasurer: Ben
Still open: social chairs
*2015 REGATTA CHAIRS*
Ski-sail in April: Avery
Fleet Champs in late Sep or Oct: Steve
Bradford Island: Pete
Round TI: Adam R
Full Moon: Steve
High Sierra, July: Lyzz and Sam
Random Pairs: Ben
Nationals, labor day weekend: Al
*2015 V15 NATIONAL LEADS*
Fleet outreach/charters: Matthew
Food: Steve (Sat/Sun), Sally (Fri)
Publicity & Trophies: Lyzz
T-shirts: Sarah
Still open: Housing, Whaler Staff, Sponsor, Registration, Music
Again -- this is your fleet, and volunteers are welcome!
*2014 SURVEY RESULTS*
*IDEAS TO GET MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED*
Host a college regatta in our V15s, at TISC, towards the end of their
season, after PCCs, in April or May. We’ll need a regatta chair.
Dedicated loaners: loan your boat to someone you trust for Tue team racing,
if you're a Thursday night sailor, and vice versa.
Inventory all the boats at TISC, so we know which boats can be chartered
out.
*IDEAS TO FACLITATE LEARNING*
Casual weekend racing clinics, to help boats get up to speed.
Mentor/mentee: more experienced team coaches another, less experienced team.
Reinstate JV divisions, for people without collegiate experience, like
we’ve had in past years. More encouragement for new sailors.
RaceQs, a tracking program for fleets, so you can see what different
sailors did.
Getting the word out:
Weather station
Webcam
Facilitate introductions:
Encourage people to put their names on their boats.
Polaroid photos of various teams, in the little bulletin board on the shed.
If you’re up for organizing any of these, let me know.
*IDEAS FOR NEW THINGS NEXT YEAR*
Out of 18 responses, here’s where we landed…
More weekend races: 50% (9)
Round TI race: 50% (9)
Full Moon race: 44% (8)
More team racing: 28% (5)
Should we allocate $250 in fleet dues to help get a team to Nationals?
Yes: 10
No: 7
*UPCOMING EVENTS*
Dock out: TBD (look out for an email about this, and come to claim your
awards!)
Tuning session: first Thursday in April
First Thursday Night race: second Thursday in April
First Tuesday Night: first Tuesday in April?
*2014 SEASON RECAP*
*FLEET CHAMPS*
13 boats doing 18 races up in lovely Inverness. If you ever get a chance,
by all means go.
Wide range of conditions, with Sally and Adam nipping out Matthew, Nick and
Jack, with Avery & Maddy displaying some awesome crew power to get third.
ROUND TI, run by Adam R, with Jono & Claire nipping out David and Jennifer
in a photo finish
BRADFORD ISLAND, run by Pete
BART'S BASH, run by Adam F
RANDOM PAIRS, run by Ben
*TUESDAY NIGHT TEAM RACING*
The never-ending saga, went up to October 21 or 28
Still going?
Thanks to Dan and Steve
*VOLUNTEERING*
Ran a solid program, always important to help our hosts, TISC. Thanks to
Maddy for running this.
Resurgence of weekend races, with four new races:
THANKS TO
Ben for running fleet finances, collecting dues, paying expenses. Takes a
lot of behind the scenes effort, and we appreciate it.
Rolf for webmastering.
Neha and Lyzz for social chairing. Another job with a lot of behind the
scenes effort.
Lastly, we saw a bunch of new sailors enter our fleet, thanks to our
charter program run by Pete with help from Steve. Really great program to
grow our fleet.
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